Clydesdale Bank 40 (at Edgbaston): Surrey 282-7 (J J Roy 101) v Warwickshire 152.
Surrey beat Warwickshire by 130 runs

WARWICKSHIRE's CB40 Trophy campaign came to a miserable end against Surrey at Edgbaston on Wednesday night.

After Jason Roy’s maiden one-day century lifted Surrey to 282, Warwickshire mustered a feeble 152, to lose by 130 runs.

It was another game to forget in their 40-over campaign to forget.

Out of contention for the semi-finals, Warwickshire gave debuts to Tom Allin, who played his first senior one-day match, and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who played his 653rd.

If Allin, a seamer of high promise, goes on to play 653 he will have few more chastening experiences than this. Opening the bowling, his second over included five fours as Steven Davies swung freely.

Surrey sped to 50 in five overs but Keith Barker’s fourth ball ousted Davies (40, 28 balls) and the early charge was ended by two quick wickets for Rikki Clarke when Rory Hamilton-Brown and Chris Schofield edged behind.

Roy then showed the hitting that has powered him into the Lions’ squad. He struck 101 (95 balls) before falling to a brilliant catch by Jim Troughton at mid-wicket.

In reply, Warwickshire needed a strong start but they don’t do those in CB40 these days.

A slide to 61 for five included the wicket of Chanderpaul for just 17 when, having pinged Matt Spriegel’s first ball for six, he got a fatal leading-edge to Yasir Arafat.

There was no semblance of a recovery and the Bears fans’ suffering was only increased by PA announcements referring to the ‘Birmingham End’ following a link-up with visitbirmingham.com, whose hoardings now adorn the City End of the ground.

Now any effort to attract visitors to Birmingham is laudable. But what possible difference will be made by renaming the City End (embedded deep in Edgbston’s DNA) the Birmingham End?

Most people watching a match at Edgbaston, one imagines, are not labouring under the impression that they are in Bristol, say, or Arbroath.