SURREY BROWN CAPS V WARWICKSHIRE BEARS at Edgbaston (Pro40 League), 25 AUGUST 2008

Since 2003 these two sides have traded wins in limited-overs cricket. On that basis, then, Surrey should win tomorrow's clash. Yeah, right! But if you think the Brown Caps let themselves down at Cardiff at least they didn't get bowled out for 88, which was what happened to the Warwickshire Bears on Friday night.

At one stage the Brummies were 29 for eight, which was a major surprise given the form of Jonathan Trott, who has scored 431 runs at an average of 61.57 in List A cricket this summer thanks to hundreds against Northants in both the FPT and the Pro40. Tony Frost, Darren Maddy and Ian Westwood have also had their moments, each of them having scored two half-centuries so far. More often than not Neil Carter, who is doubtful for this match due to a back problem, has got Warwickshire off to a brisk start. England wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose is available to play tomorrow, but his three List A innings in county cricket this summer have resulted in just 33 runs.

Chris Martin, the Bears' current overseas signing, has been the star performer with the ball in one-day cricket recently. But over the season as a whole, Carter has bagged the most wickets (16 List A victims at 19.00 runs apiece), thanks to the trio of three-fers he took in the Friends Provident earlier this season. Ant Botha's slow left-arm spin has been a little bit expensive, but as he showed against Leicestershire at the end of last month, by claiming a List A career best 5-43, the South African isn't the best man to whom you should try and force the pace. James Anyon and Naqqash Tahir have been economical, but both have had injury problems.

Click here for the Surrey v Warwickshire List A Records sheet as at the start of the 2008 season.

Usman Afzaal is 11 runs away from 5,000 runs in List A cricket. James Benning is set to make his 75th one-day appearance. Mark Ramprakash has 12,476 career runs in List A cricket, including 14 hundreds. For the home side, Tim Groenewald is on the brink of his 25th one-day outing.

Alex Tudor looks set to make his first one-day appearance for Surrey since August 2004, when he made 56 off 70 balls against Lancashire at Whitgift. The only other change to the Brown Caps side that drew with Sussex in the County Championship is likely to be Saqlain Mushtaq making way for Matthew Spriegel. But Robert Frylinck, who took 3-52 against Northants in the Pro40 last week doesn't even get into the 13-man squad for Edgbaston.

Based on the fact that Surrey have not won on their last four one-day visits to Edgbaston, their luck has got to change at some point. Also, anyone who played worse than we did at Cardiff cannot honestly call themselves a first-class county, because the Brown Caps performance there was embarrassing.

J Trott, I Westwood, J Troughton, D Maddy (capt), T Ambrose (wk), T Frost, A Botha, T Groenewald, I Salisbury, C Woakes and C Martin. 

Nigel Cowley and Steve Garratt.

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