Preview: Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire, LV= Insurance County Championship

Will Rhodes knows that it will be a "very special" day tomorrow when spectators return to Edgbaston for Warwickshire's LV= Insurance County Championship match game against Nottinghamshire.

Emotions will be running high at 11am (and how nice that we can be sure it will be 11am with the weather forecast set fair) when the match begins in front of a around 2,000 Bears Members and supporters..

It should be a cracking match, between two sides with eyes very much on a top-two finish in Group 1, and captain Rhodes and his team have their focus very much on that.

But after all that has happened in the last year, there will be no hiding the emotions tomorrow as the Bears family can at last begin to gather again in greater numbers.

"It will be very special," Rhodes said. "It has been such a strange and difficult year for so many people and, through it all, the bond between the Bears players and the members, and among the whole Bears family, has been so strong.

"We are all so looking forward to having spectators back in. As a professional cricketer you want play in front of crowds and feel the atmosphere they create, so it will be brilliant."

Those spectators will return for a mouth-watering match as Warwickshire face a Nottinghamshire side which has leaped to the top of the group after exploding into form with three successive wins.

The Bears beat them by three wickets at Trent Bridge in April with a fightback display of real skill and resolve. This time, without Dom Sibley and Olly Stone who have left to join up with the England squad, Rhodes knows they must hit similar heights again.

"Notts are the in-form team and to win three games on the bounce from the position they were in is a great effort," he said. "But every winning run has to end some time and hopefully that will be this week.

"We can take confidence from having beaten them up at Trent Bridge where the guys really dug deep to put in a fantastic performance. It will be two confident teams going toe to toe and should be a really exciting game.

"Our aim is very much to finish in the top two in the group and we would love to be in the top two after these next two games, against Notts and Derbyshire, before we start the T20."

Squad

Rhodes (c), Bresnan, Briggs, H Brookes, Burgess (wk), Hannon-Dalby, Hain, Lamb, Malan, Miles, Mousley, Norwell, Yates.

Spectator Guide

Information for all Members and supporters attending Warwickshire versus Nottinghamshire is available here. Gates open at 10am.

Due to the latest Government guidelines, please note that all Members and supporters must have a mobile ticket via the Edgbaston app or printed ticket at home to secure entry to Edgbaston.

Live Stream

Warwickshire Members and supporters will be able to watch the action via our live stream, which will include replays and commentary from BBC WM and BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.

All action will be live streamed through the Match Centre on edgbaston.com, through the Edgbaston app (available on iOS and Android) and through the Warwickshire CCC YouTube page.