Two days of bad weather robbed the sides of outdoor preparation on the eve of today's second Cornhill Test. They then discovered that the indoor school was being prepared for corporate guests.

Pakistan captain Wasim Akram said: ``It is irritating. You need about 1.5 hours to limber up before a Test. The people here should have ensured the indoor school was cleared until after practice. It seems the caterers are more important than the cricketers.''

Chris Hassell, the chief executive of Yorkshire, said: ``I'm sorry that we can't accommodate the players indoors for practice. When we have a new ground perhaps things will be different. But we can't afford to have a facility like this standing empty when I doubt whether more than one or two players would choose to go indoors.''

Yorkshire will gross around £250,000 from the indoor school hospitality this year and Hassell said that when this had first been laid on, profit to the club was around £50,000 - far more than the county could earn from winning a major title.

* Peter Lever, who has resigned as England's bowling coach because he did not agree with some of the ways of new coach David Lloyd, told BBC Breakfast News yesterday: ``I was in the dressing room during the last Test and they played the Winston Churchill tapes. I realised I was the only one who heard them live during the war so I thought it was time to move on.''