By Paul Edwards

LET’S be honest, when Will Rhodes caught Jack Brooks off the bowling of Liam Norwell on Friday afternoon his first thought was not that he had secured Warwickshire’s place in this week’s Bob Willis Trophy Final at Lord’s.
Likewise when Dane Vilas swept Liam Dawson to the square-leg boundary at Aigburth 24 hours earlier his priority was not to make sure Lancashire would be in St John’s Wood playing a five-day match into early October.
But while the County Championship remains the trophy that the vast majority of English professional cr...