Week 4

Hemyock – Home

What a week of cricket I have just had, some highs, and some lows and some rain! I must admit the Countryfile forecast was spot on a the previous Sunday, they said the weather will be changeable, and they couldn’t accurately forecast the end of the week, so they left it as changeable – now surely any forecaster can do that, but who am I to criticise Countryfile? 

Right, back to the highs, lows etc….. 

The highs:

• I had cricket nearly every day of the week last week.
• Somerset hammered County Champions Durham in the County Championship, lifting them to second in the Division One, with a game in hand.
• Marcus Trescothick smashed a ton in the second inning to lead the way to victory by seven wickets – despite a first baller in the first inning.

The lows:

• Somerset losing to Kent in the T20, in fact they got smashed. Well I had a few ciders to soften the blow somewhat.
• More corruption in cricket
• England all out for 99 – see above – just saying, did anyone check the colour of the batting handles when England batted? Or is it every time Ravi Bopara plays you know England are going to lose.

The rain:

• Which meant: no play fro the mighty Over Stowey 2^nd XI against Hemyock.
• Which also meant: I didn’t have to do any umpiring for the 2^nd XI again.

So four weeks of the cricket season has now passed, and I have yet to do any Saturday cricket umpiring, two games because of the rain, and the other two games I was away. Anyway, I watched Countryfile again last night, for the forecast of course, nothing to do with Ellie, and by the end of the week it is going to be “scorchio!” So Stoke St Mary, who are the visitors to Over Stowey on Saturday, you will be my first victims of the 2014 campaign.

I have now put all the fixtures in my diary for the rest of Over Stowey’s campaign, and I am gutted. There are three weekends I am unavailable, and out of the three, two games I am absolutely gutted about, Crowcombe away and Fitzhead away. Two nice away trips, two clubs’s who play the game in the right spirit, and two cracking pubs to go back after the game. Oh well, at least I have Brompton Ralph away to look forward too.

Ok, time for a Thatchers or two I think.