On the evidence of yesterday's action at Eglinton, it may take a while for the North West Warriors and the Northern Knights to grasp the idea or three-day cricket, but they served up a day rich in entertainment, if lacking in quality batting.

Yes, it was a greenish pitch which offered help to the seam bowlers but 20 wickets on the first day was not what either team expected. It ended with the Warriors, after six overs of their second innings, just three runs behind and, literally, it is a case of starting again this morning and trying to get it right at the second time of asking.

Andrew White, the Knights captain, has no hesitation in bowling first after winning the toss but the Warriors first innings of 116 all out in 44.2 overs was due more to poor batting than brilliant bowling.

The visitors' pace attack just had to bowl a steady line and length and wait for the mistakes. Only one three batsmen reached double figures, only one got past 20 and even Kamran Sajjid ran out of patience three short of his 50 when he edged the persevering Eugene Moleon to Chris Dougherty to give the stand-in keeper the third of his four catches.

It was a case of déjà vu in the second innings with Donemana namesake Ricky-Lee Dougherty holding five catches, but here most of the wickets were due to accurate seam bowling. When the Knights reached 35 for no wicket in the ninth over, they were on course for a commanding first innings advantage but then Andy Britton, Johnny Thompson and Stuart Thompson suddenly got the ball talking and six wickets fell for 30 runs.

Greg Thompson and Nathan Waller put on 42 for the seventh wicket - the highest partnership of the day - but they were never in total control and when Andrew Riddles ended that stand, the last three wickets added only 24.

The big problem for Warriors - and possibly Brigade - is that Johnny Thompson has a hamstring injury and will not bowl again in the match.