County cricket day two: Somerset v Notts, Leicestershire v Sussex and more – live

County cricket updates from 11am BST across the grounds
Team-by-team guide | Send Tanya your thoughts via email

“Salutations Tanya!” Good morning Tim Maitland.

"I am torn between two burning issues.

”Firstly, why does the UK insist on giving storms such ridiculously benign names? Storm Dave is more likely to give people the impression that there’s time for a nice cup of tea and some custard creams rather than the desired effect of battening down the metaphorical hatches. What’s wrong with using the names of historical villains? Storm Genghis? Storm Atilla? Storm Thatcher? At the very least give them French names and strike fear into the heart of the general population.

”The second thought is would the England batting line-up be better with a player like Ben Foakes in it? I’m not specifically banging the drum for Foakes, just for the England management to resists the urge to fill their side with yet more peroxide-tipped, high testosterone pyjama cricketers fashioned in their own likeness and instead add a player late in the order capable of having a steadying influence - much in the way that Joe Root calms the top of the order when he inevitably comes in to bat 20 minutes into the innings - and occasionally buy time for the last survivor of the specialist batters or Ben Stokes himself to build their own innings. Someone who can do more than provide another cameo of carnage before handing the initiative back to the bowling side.

"I only mention this as two days of yellow storm warnings and a forecast of snow in the Scottish Highlands should presumably give us all a surfeit of time to consider such things.”

Sadly, I think Ben Foakes time has passed – which seems a ridiculous thing to say about such a talented player.