Andrew Frank

@NoContextCounty Edgbaston always delivers mate! 🐻🐻🐻🐻

Reminder that THIS was the first wicket of the season

@StandUpForBarry @robphillipshere I thought Hull only scored 7 when Raich Carter was playing.

Been going through the archives. Busy day at the office, @RobPhillipsHere?!

@downatfineleg @henrywinter Hopefully the first of an English clean sweep

@henrywinter I bloody hope so, Henry.

Good luck to Aston Villa in Istanbul tonight. Just been asked on the radio whether Villa will win the Europa League final. Unai Emery and his staff will have done all their homework on Freiburg, analysed the strengths and weaknesses of Bundesliga’s seventh-placed club. Johan Manzambi is a box-to-box force. Vincenzo Grifo on the left can be a threat. Villa will respect Freiburg but not fear them. Emery is brilliant at preparing for challenges like this. Emery has shown with Sevilla and Villarreal (does he live in a villa?) that he holds the map and compass for the Europa League journey, and now from the Bull Ring to Istanbul. He knows the way to glory. Emery also has John McGinn leading the way. Any team with a strong character like McGinn has a strong chance. He’s 31, at his peak, a player who joined Villa in the Championship, fought hard to get them up, Rotherham away, down to 10 men, Mings off, Abraham missed pen, but a tough Scot drove them on to victory. “John McGinn was so good I thought there were two of him,” Dean Smith said. Villa back to fifth, play-offs, Wembley goal, promotion, Europe. McGinn deserves every accolade currently bestowed on him. Youri Tielemans is a man for the big occasion. Any team with "Little Emi" Buendia and Morgan Rogers will have a supply line to goal, complemented by full-back forays of Lucas Digne and Matty Cash. Any attack with Ollie Watkins in this prolific vein of form (10 goals in 11 all comps) has a very good chance of chances being taken. Any defence with Ezri Konsa has pace and composure, and a goalkeeper of great experience and belief in "Big Emi" Martinez. Villa have the players. They have the manager. They have the impassioned support. If Villa repeat the intensity that swept aside Nottingham Forest and Liverpool recently (McGinn scoring three times), Villa will win. #AVFC #UEL #UELfinal

@brainhaldorf I went the day before and didn't go on the Friday 🤬🤬

Quite a day this was! 🐻 Any recollections?

@CansAndBansV12 It was a free kick and a yellow card. Hardly play on !

Pull a bobble out of someone’s hair. Red card, violent conduct Rake your studs down someone’s calf. Play on

@1980sSportsBlog Good point young man

Ha ha. Just seen Pep described as a genius on the BBC website. A genius is a manager and his assistant taking a club in the second division, gaining promotion, winning the championship, plus two League Cups and two European Cups in the space of five years.

@AndyMaxVolume Utterly insane

Day 4 🏏 *and the last time we have a red ball game here until August 20th. 94 days. That is ridiculous, surely?

@stevegreen39 @WG_RumblePants He would conclude Rob Key did a good job

@WG_RumblePants Call in Rob Key for a review.

Surrey fall to heavy defeat at Headingley as Yorkshire win by an innings and 127 runs. 🤎 | #CountyChampionship

@chriswoakes Next James Bond? 🐻🐻

Something exciting coming soon… 🔜 ⏳

@brainhaldorf The name's Bamber.. Ethan Bamber

"Bamber’s vivacious all-round performance will no doubt have been noted by England’s selectors, and also those involved in the search which began this week for the new James Bond." the-bear.counterpress.media/news/warwicksh…

@brainhaldorf I loved Ethan's dad in Pride and Prejudice 🤣

@melindafarrell Having a better hair day Mel ? Edgbaston was good yesterday - outfield knee deep in youngsters at lunch time 🐻

Shoutout to Tom Lammonby’s 9|15 cafe, which should be an essential stop for anyone watching cricket at Taunton. Superb coffee and freshly baked bagels. 🤌🏻

@Kippercricks @WG_RumblePants I spent four years studying at the University of Kent at Canterbury so might have dodged the odd lecture to watch Derek Underwood bowl from the Nackington Road End!

@WG_RumblePants Always wanted to go to Canterbury but never 👎 managed it so far - remember watching games on tv 📺 with that lovely 😻 oak(?) tree 🌳 on the outfield

A composite panoramic view of the St Lawrence ground in Canterbury during the match between Kent and Nottinghamshire as part of the Canterbury cricket festival, 4th August 1937

@TheCricketerMag @GeorgeDobell1 All about the young people today George. Gary Barwell very chilled at lunchtime " it's only grass" 😜

"When you look at his record, he is one of the few bowlers right up there statistically in all the bowlers globally of all time." 💬 Rob Key has lavished praise on Ollie Robinson following his England Test recall | @GeorgeDobell1 thecricketer.com/Topics/england…

@WG_RumblePants @OversLife Bizarrely I was in a port lodge in Porto and went to the loo to be greeted by a picture of WG .. awesome

@OversLife Whilst I would love to watch WG Grace play, I’m not sure I’d really want to spend a whole day with him, so it better be Harold Larwood or Percy Fender.

You’ve a day with any cricketer in history. ⏳ No cameras. No crowd. Just coffee, beer, and cricket stories. ☕🍺 Who are you choosing? 👀

@Al_Cooper7 @FoleyMonty5833 @GeorgeDobell1 Yes but Sam is not an opener

@AndrewFran26613 @FoleyMonty5833 @GeorgeDobell1 Crawley… 😂

Warwickshire's domestic stalwarts leave Yorkshire stars in the shade thecricketer.com/Topics/county-…

@FoleyMonty5833 @GeorgeDobell1 I think the Hain train has left the station but he is class. Saw his maiden hundred v Northamptonshire in a massive partnership with Trott. Far worse players have played for England. Westley and Lawrence to name two of the top of my head

@GeorgeDobell1 Sam Hain, class is permanent. Will he ever get another Eng opportunity?

@JacobLunn11 Well batted Jacob. I hit very few sixes in my career 😱

We lost. Bowled a few overs and didn’t take a wicket and came in at 5 and scored 14 not out off about 8 balls including a six over square leg! Onto next weekend!

@GeorgeDobell1 You Bears

Warwickshire have set Yorkshire 549 to win in a min of 128 overs. That's 4.29 an over.

#flybhx LS1371