Club cricket blog 26-27 season

[sussexpob]

My early season golf rounds have been dismal too haha!!!

I played the Belgian National in Sterrebeek Easter Monday. The front 9 teetime were delayed due to a few groups slow playing on the course, so as I was solo the guy told me I could tee off earlier from the 10th if I didn't want to spend all round stuck behind a few slow 4 balls. The 10th at Sterrebeek is surrounded on all three sides by a hotel, with just a tiny moat separating the tee box from the hotel beer garden/terrace. It was a unseasonable lovely day, and the terrace was rammed with people drinking and eating.

No warm up on the range, 100 people watching, I promptly crumbled and squirted my tee shot along the floor into the wild rough and got a sarcastic cheer from a few tables. Rather than the walk of shame and the long wait to find my ball, I just left it and hit another, which thankfully was ok.

[sussexpob]

Yeah our squares are very green so will be plenty of early season movement I would expect haha

In my experience the problem with April pitches was more the bounce than anything with lateral movement. It took a lot of heavy rolling and 1 or 2 games into the season to get the pitches flat enough to be confident with the bounce, and I distinctly remember a few instances where I faced balls that took off from fullish lengths, and one particular game we played away which got called off halfway through after a worrying amount of decent length balls took over.

Bowling, different story. I used to love bowling in April, I'd bowl off spin all year but at the start go seam up medium, full at the stumps. Always felt you had chance when the ball seams half a metre of the deck.

[andy]

Our decks are notoriously known for keeping low however we had the squares relaid over the winter they will take time to settle however hopefully when they do they will be better to bat on than in previous years