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Following On: County Cricketer S3 EP 4: The Kookaburra, the rain and the Jimmy Anderson problem
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talkSPORT's Cricket Editor Jon Norman, two-time County Championship winner Steve Harmison, Nick Friend and George Dobell from The Cricketer Mag on Week One of the County Championship.
On this week's show the boys discuss whether the use of the Kookaburra ball should be pushed back to later in the season, pick out the best of the individual performances from the recent round of County Championship action and discuss England's elephant in the room.
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