The Year's First Round Robin Text

One of the rules, or more accurately commandments, of village cricket is that you get merciless stick for doing anything badly and derided for taking it too seriously if you do a job well. No job places you on the horns of this dilemma quite like being the indoor captain.

Ours has opted for the 'doing the proper job' option and kicked off the bank holiday with a text checking availability through to (wait for it..) 27 February - in order to deal with 'selection pressures'. This is a mythical Nirvana like state where a club actually has too many players for a team on any given date.

So until the end of Feb we'll be working on essential skills like taking catches off a wall - and having a mid week visit to the pub.