Disappointing performance by the dogs

Very disappointing to hear no reference to a visit to the pitch by any dogs during the last ODI at Dambulla after at least one had turned up on each of the two previous occasions.

It showed that top players have to live with the sort of thing we real players are used to (well used to be).

We used to play a fixture at the very pretty Bentley Heath ground. Here you had to carry your kit over a barbed wire fence and through heavy vegetation until you found (if you were lucky; occasionally you failed and got seriously lost) a clearing cut into the Hertfordshire savanna. This plot had been generously donated by the local landowner and you later had tea in the baronial hall.

In the meantime the main point of the story is that the clearing , except for the square which was cordoned off, was used by cattle during the week.
So the badge on our friendly host caps was a bat crossed with a shovel.