Difficult to know whether our skipper was kidding when he announced two days ahead of our first league match of the season that there are eels on the outfield. Eels or not it's off, the ground too waterlogged to prepare a pitch.
Outdoor nets were a bit soggy this week and bowlers didn't get to practise because the run-ups would have got ruined for the rest of the season. Batsmen made do with throw-downs and actually seemed to prefer the experience to that of facing a line of bowlers of random dexterity and speed.
There wasn't much sense in ground fielding practice because it was so wet, but there was a lot of varying catching practice, including use of the slip cradle, which caused your correspondent to come within a gnats whisker of breaking a finger on his left hand.
Happily, 48 hrs later, it's much better and would have been fine for the weekend. What's surprising is how much giving batsmen throw-downs makes your arm ache afterwards.
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