Glamorgan v Yorkshire at Cardiff CC 17-20 September

Just a gnawing worry, like a stone in your shoe, is the forecast rain after lunch tomorrow. We should be okay, but....

There's so much at stake. The difference next year between playing Surrey, Somerset, Essex, Notts, etc., compared with Glamorgan, Derbys and Northants, and the pleasure of travelling to Chelmsford, Taunton, Worcester, Hove, Chester-le-Street, all my favourite venues, places that can be part of a longer stay in those areas.

Plus of course the 1st Division. If we're in it, we can win it, and enjoy the exultation of being Champions again. I believe that, with a couple of bowlers, we're ready for that challenge.

If you have a mobile phone with you, you can connect the commentary on any match to the car via Bluetooth on the BBC sports app.

Witchfinder Dobell has written what I expect isn't a very nice piece concerning Yorkshire (behind a paywall) in the cricketer. The headline is that Jafar Chohan has been prevented from playing in the CPL because Yorkshire wouldn't sign a No Objection Certificate.

He's Yorkshire's player who they have spent a lot of time and energy getting back to fitness and I haven't a clue if the CPL deal was real or imagined and what Yorkshire's reasoning has been.

If the player has felt disappointed and run back to tell 'uncle George' that could be a problem. It's not reported anywhere else that I can see.

Quite surprised Jafar Chohan has been picked to play in the BBL, I hope he does well, but if he's looking to be just a T20 have ball will travel player then perhaps we've got enough of those on the books already.

I assume Chohan has been denied the chance as he may be needed next week for the final CC match in case of injury to Bess or Moriarty or even if we decide to go for a bunsen burner and want 3 spinners to ensure its a result pitch. I suspect the type of pitch we want might be decided later today when we know the outcome of this game and the points needed next week.

I wonder if we would have been able to say No if the ECB gave permission for Bairstow to go and play in the CPL though?

Absolutely. I'll settle for a couple of boring days next week, in exchange for a season of exciting ones next year.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work like that at Headingley. When we want a result pitch we get a flat one, and when we need a draw we get a greentop, as when we got relegated in 2022.

Technically, we could still draw and be overtaken, if we got just the 8 points, as in a washout. Middlesex would then need 23 or 24 to pip us to second place. Realistically, we have to lose, and they have to win, for us to be denied Div 1 next year. We have to assume Middlesex will win, against a Sussex side with nothing to play for.

Excellent work this morning, throughout this game and the entire second half of the CC season. Really chuffed with the way the team are playing lately.

As for the final game, I think Northants have burned through all their short term overseas signings now and have to stand on their own two feet. They do have the spine of a decent team in there though so it won't be a walkover.

A bore draw 500 plays 500 sort of pitch will do nicely. We are pushing it with the length of the season and surely the weather gods will have their say during the final round, even down in Hove.