Nottinghamshire's Stuart Broad wrecks Warwickshire with eight for 52

Stuart Broad tuned up for the first Test against Pakistan by demolishing Warwickshire with the best bowling figures in the First Division this season. For a heady moment, as he took the first seven wickets to fall, he was on course for all 10. But for the England selector who witnessed it, delight at Broad's form came alongside growing despair. Ashley Giles is also Warwickshire's coach and as he watched Broad take a relaxed, career-best eight for 52 and Warwickshire capitulate to their joint lowest score this century, he knew in his heart that this 10-wicket defeat, their eighth in 11 matches, makes relegation inevitable. Nottinghamshire, meanwhile, are eyeing the championship again. Giles will doubtless report contentment with Broad's form when the selectors meet to pick the squad for Trent Bridge, his home Test. But his assessment about Warwickshire, bottom of the table and bereft of form, was accurate when he said: "It wasn't a fantastic piece of bowling. It was challenging and nothing more. He bowled well but we weren't good enough. They have to take responsibility for this." Giles is committed to the development of homegrown players, as much as the previous coach, Mark Greatbatch, was committed to the convenience of dual passports. But Warwickshire are going down and only a successful Friends Provident t20 campaign – they face Hampshire in next Monday's quarter-final – will lift the mood. As Birmingham has so far treated t20 with less enthusiasm than a dodgy Monday night out on Broad Street, perhaps England's second city is getting what it deserves. Broad did not bowl exceptionally but he swung the ball at pace, kept the ball up more than he had in the first innings after a chat with Notts' part-time bowling coach Mike Hendrick, and had one of those days when he felt in good enough form to be lucky. Notts' close cordon, apart from one blemish, caught everything. Andre Adams's reflex catch to dismiss Chris Woakes was so good everybody laughed. Broad knew his performance's real value. On a more challenging day, he would have settled for a four-for. "It was one of those days when the wickets came. There were a few nice balls in there but there were a few soft dismissals in there as well. I'm a great believer that you make your own luck but I probably bowled quicker on the first day." Notts set up the victory on the second day when Mark Wagh and Chris Read turned a potential first-innings deficit into a lead of 76. Warwickshire then duly crumbled. Ian Westwood and Jonathan Trott – the latter nominated by Broad as his favourite wicket – both steered to gully; Jim Troughton played all round a decent ball; Rikki Clarke pushed hesitantly at his first ball and was lbw; and as for Darren Maddy, so cautious in his youth, his slap to point off one knee suggests that in his dotage he now only has appetite for Twenty20. There was no bloody-mindedness, no defiance, no hope. Broad's analysis is only beaten this season by Steve Finn, for Middlesex in Division Two. One more wicket and he would have been the first Notts fast bowler to take nine in an innings since Harold Larwood. Not even Richard Hadlee managed that. But you cannot have everything. Not even against batting as abject as Warwickshire's.