I'm wondering when the last time was that a county match was scheduled over 5 days. They were always 3-day games when I were a lad, and teh 100-over limit for first innings did tend to cramp some counties' styles. I remember a match in (I think) 1975, in which Essex played Worcester, and Basil d'Oliveira and Imran Khan were playing for Worcester, in which Essex reached 499 in 100 overs. We all thought they had broken the record, but Hampshire (Barry Richards & Gordon Greenidge mainly, I suspect) scored over 500 on the same day.