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Birmingham City defender Scott Dann won't rush rehabilitation from injury

Birmingham City defender Scott Dann will step up his rehabilitation from a torn hamstring next week with a view to returning to full training early next month.Read

Crowd have a key role in Birmingham's Carling Cup semi-final ways former player Jerry Gill

JERRY Gill is backing Blues supporters to generate enough good vibrations, quite literally, next Wednesday to help power their team into the League Cup final – just as they did in 2001.Read

Walsall comeback was tough, admits Jimmy Walker

JIMMY Walker admits he had to prove to himself that he was still up to first-team football when he returned to Walsall in October.Read

Oliver Lancashire calls for Walsall to get back to basics.

WALSALL’S players this week joined in with a website campaign to send a million good-luck Christmas messages to British troops fighting the war in Afghanistan.Read

Skipper Ian Westwood takes pride in Warwickshire's survival battle

IAN Westwood admits that Warwickshire’s roller-coaster championship season was the stuff of “sleepless nights and a lot of worry”.Read

Captain Ian Bell hails Warwickshire's Lord's hero Imran Tahir

CAPTAIN Ian Bell saluted the ‘world-class’ input of Imran Tahir after the spinner ended his Warwickshire career with a devastating five-wicket burst to set up Clydesdale 40 triumph.Read

Ashley Giles hails Warwickshire's Clydesdale 40 semi-final heroes

DIRECTOR of cricket Ashley Giles was almost speechless after Warwickshire pulled off a shock semi-final win over Yorkshire to book a Clydesdale 40 final against Somerset under the Lord’s floodlights next Saturday.Read

Walsall rue missed chances against Colchester

FOR the second successive week manager Chris Hutchings was left ruing a host of missed chances as Walsall crashed to their third defeat on the bounce in all competitions.Read

Warwickshire have no answer to big guns admits Ashley Giles

WARWICKSHIRE visit Durham in the Clydesdale 40 today after five days in which to dust themselves down following a humiliating two-day championship defeat at Nottinghamshire.Read

Hutchings delighted with Walsall double strike

WALSALL manager Chris Hutchings has expressed his delight at his double transfer-swoop late last week.Read

Warwickshire all-rounder Stef Piolet believes county career is about to take flight

STEF Piolet is confident he has what it takes to succeed in first-class cricket after his “baptism of fire” in the County Championship against Yorkshire at Headingley this season.Read

Ashley Giles makes plea to Warwickshire batsmen

ASHLEY Giles has called upon Warwickshire’s batsmen to meet the “mental and physical” demands of digging the Bears out of relegation trouble in the championship, starting against title-chasing Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge tomorrow.Read

Keith Barker is eager to establish himself in Warwickshire’s championship team

KEITH Barker is eager to establish himself in Warwickshire’s championship team after getting a couple of four-day games under his belt this season.Read

FORMER Warwickshire fitness and conditioning coach Simon Hollyhead has been appointed first-team fitness coach with FC Malmo in Sweden.

Hollyhead, who left Edgbaston last winter after a decade in charge of the players’ fitness regime, links up with former Coventry City manager Roland Nilsson, now boss of Malmo, who were famously sunk by Trevor Francis’s far-post header for Nottingham Forest in the 1979 European Cup final in Munich.Read

Walsall: One to watch

FULL-back is football’s least glamorous position. Strikers hog the headlines, goalkeepers make spectacular saves, centre-backs are heroic, midfielders dominant and wingers thrilling. Full-backs, by and large, just quietly do their unheralded job.Read

Warwickshire slump has hurt admits captain Ian Westwood

IAN Westwood has revealed the ‘hurt’ and ‘embarrassment’ he has felt this season as Warwickshire battle against relegation from Division One of the County Championship.Read

RIKKI Clarke intends his recent century against Yorkshire – one of the finest innings played for Warwickshire in modern times – to be the springboard for some serious run-scoring for the rest of this season.

Runs eluded the all-rounder in the first half of the season but there were signs of returning form from him in an impressive 68 against Durham at Chester-le-Street on the first match of the Bears “northern tour” two weeks ago.Read

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Brian covers Warwickshire Cricket Club and Walsall FC for the Birmingham Mail.

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