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If you ever have a tricky away fixture over here in Gloucestershire, give me a shout!

I am quite overcome with envy. If only I could ever have been in that position I would have been in 7th. heaven. I'd happily batted no. 11, I said, if you can't raise a full team, I'd field anywhere you want, and trundle down a couple of innocuous overs if required - no wides at least. OK...

Thanks, appreciated - but as I've replied to other posters, in my case that horse has bolted! It would have been good to have the internet back then when I was trying to get a game - better than standing in the phone box at the end of the road shovelling in coins!

Artificial hips - can't run. A bit of a handicap! Wouldn't fancy throwing myself to the ground to try and take a catch either! Anyway, maybe cricket is more inclusive in Sussex than in cricket-is-for-local-people in Gloucester!

Yeh, I wasn't too impressed either! But - it's too late now. This happened more than 40 years ago: I'm 75 now!

Envy to everyone with a chance of playing! I played (not very well) at school, but since then have only played a couple of times for scratch teams from work (where I've been rather better than most!) When I moved to Gloucester many years ago, I got numbers form the cricket authorities and phoned...