March 16th

Hi readers

Today was a very tough day (as far as playing cricket in Barbados goes).

We had another net session from about 10am until 1pm. Before the nets started we did our prehab and stretching designed by physio Rich Marsden. This is largely stretching and strength exercises for certain areas that he thinks we need to improve based on preseason testing results. After that we moved onto sprints with S&C Ant Sharp former marine, RAF machine and non baldie. This short but tough fitness was hard and instantly followed up by fielding drills. This was four stations including high catches and throwing at stumps etc. Unfortunately my group was two men short which meant Billy G, Jaik, Comber, Westly and myself had quite a large workload and that coupled with fitness left us blowing a bit. It actually rained just prior to our session which made conditions very humid and sweaty, bad day to wear a black training shirt!

On the bowling front Spoons aka Chris Silverwood had us bowl two spells. The first was bowling as if it were the beginning of an OD game and the second spell was death bowling. The boys all bowled well and in good areas, and in general the wickets played really well today, bouncy and with reasonable carry. The wickets also got the balls reversing so bowling in the second spell was quite fun.

On the social side I went to TGI’s (which I moaned about in a past blog on my website), with Jaik, Wheats and Comber for a milkshake. We were too tired and sore to put up a fight with our conscience which means nutrition rule broken on day 2.

Anyway need energy for rest of trip and Hants game tomorrow, thats my excuse.

Logging off Chris