ECB managing director of county cricket, Neil Snowball, confirmed that talks were ongoing with the Willis family about how best to utilise the trophy in the right manner
NICK FRIEND AT LORD'S: If this is the last time it is played for, then the trophy is in the right hands - the best team in the country in 2021, but also Willis' county for more than a decade
NICK FRIEND AT LORD'S: This isn’t how Parkinson would have envisaged the last week of his summer, but it was somehow fitting that it should end with the same high-class exhibition of patience as at Canterbury, where his season began in earnest
NICK FRIEND AT LORD'S: For a part-time student who began this season still carrying a lingering whiff of self-doubt, this effort felt like an appropriate note on which to wrap up a breakthrough campaign
NICK FRIEND AT LORD'S: It was a perfect day for Warwickshire, who could have been forgiven if they had struggled for focus less than a week on from climbing their Everest
NICK HOWSON: The ECB's managing director of county cricket Neil Snowball has optimistically outlined how the 2021 summer is shaping up, with full crowds very much part of the plan
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