First Friendly of the season abandoned

Warwickshire's first domestic friendly of the season, a two day match against Oxford UCCE was abandoned this morning after heavy overnight rain. The pictures on the website from yesterday seem to show conditions that weren't exactly conducive to cricket anyway with a saturated outfield.

The Bears had a bat and reached 195-4 yesterday before play was called off for rain. The batsmen who played were:
Westwood 37
Chopra 21
Troughton 10
Clarke 74
Ambrose 38*
Ord 0*

DNB: Botha, Woakes, Carter, Tahir, Miller.

So we haven't learnt too much more about the players, but it's probably done them good to have a bit of time in the middle. The next friendly is against Leicestershire on Thursday, again a 2 day match, and should prove to be more of a test. The Foxes have new boys Matthew Hoggard and Will Jefferson in the team, and should strengthen what has been in all honesty a perennially crap side.