Told You So

Warwickshire beat Notts by exactly sixty runs.

So those extra sixty runs were valuable then.

David Alleyne couldn't have done any more on his debut: taking nine catches behind the stumps, being top scorer in both innings and completing his maiden first-class century this afternoon...

The End...

As a number of disappointed spectators, including myself, were walking over Trent Bridge someone in a passing car shouted out: "you're going down" - presuming that we were all heading for Meadow Lane to watch Notts County. Although if Notts don't sharpen up he may yet turn out to be right. And then it started to rain...half-an-hour too late.

Warwickshire 248 & 285 beat Notts 157 & 316 (Ealham 56, Alleyne 109no, Anyon 4-48) by 60 runs.

Notts County avoided relegation from the football league,

but Nottingham Forest missed out on the play-offs and will spend at least another year in what Brian Clough knew as the Third Division.