The news from here is that mercifully only on hour’s play has been lost to the relentlessly heavy rain of yesterday evening, although once things get under way the bowler at the Pavilion End will have to negotiate a quantity of sawdust would not look out of place on the floor of a carpenter’s workshop. We start at 11.30am.  Hampshire need to draw to stay up, although given the frequency with which wickets have fallen in this match to date, what they really have to do is score the required 259 runs before Warwickshire can get the last nine wickets.