COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE, Edgbaston
Warwickshire 402-9 dec drew with Nottinghamshire 376-6 dec (Warwicks 11 pts, Notts 11pts)

Mark Wagh was in determined mood against his former county team-mates

A century by Mark Wagh in his first Championship meeting with former county Warwickshire helped put Nottinghamshire back on top of Division One.

Notts were temporarily unseated following Durham's win against Somerset on Monday.

But, although denied maximum bonus points when bad light halted them on 376-6 in reply to Warwickshire's 402-9, it was still enough to leapfrog Durham.

Wagh's 147 was his sixth first-class century for Nottinghamshire.

And his obvious pleasure in completing his hundred from only 114 balls can perhaps best be explained by his forthright assessment of his time at Edgbaston in a recently-published book, Pavilion to Crease and Back.

"With so many agendas," summed up the former Oxford University student, "it became a political monstrosity with personal conflict, rumour-mongering, territorial disputes and back-stabbing."

Wagh was the Bears' vice captain when he left at the end of the 2006 season. But he has proved to be Nottinghamshire's leading scorer in Championship cricket in each of his first two summers at Trent Bridge.

And, given that he scored 16 first-class centuries in nine years at Edgbaston, it was no surprise that he should bat so well - or with such determination - on his return to Birmingham.

Aussie Adam Voges maintained his record this season of making a half-century in every Championship innings, sharing a fourth-wicket partnership of 148 from 31 overs with Wagh.

And Ali Brown weighed in with 64 from 67 balls in a stand of 124 in 20 overs for the fifth wicket before running himself out

But they were the only lasting points of interest from a game destined for a draw once the first two days were entirely lost to rain.

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