11/06/2026
THE.WETTEST.WEEK
🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧
DAY4
LANCASHIRE CC 2ND XI V MIDDLESEX CC 2ND XI
It rained.... a lot & mid morning with no prospect of play a draw was decided.
There's not really much more to say apart from the weather's definitely not been on our side this week but somehow, in between the downpours, we still managed to witness some high‑quality cricket & it was special to witness Ben play on home turf 🏏💙
A huge thank you to Lancashire and Middlesex players, coaches, scorers, physios, analysts — for sticking with it, cracking set of lads
Massive appreciation to everyone whose helped with logistics etc this week.....
👨🍳 Sam who has singlehandedly run our kitchen for four straight days.
✅️Bottomless teas, coffees, waters, soft drinks.
✅️Four days of players lunches and teas.
✅️Spectators fed.
🤷♀️Sanity… questionable.
🔋Be gentle with him for the rest of the weekend — his fuse may be slightly shorter than usual 🙈
🚜Mike, who has prepared & marked wickets, wrangled covers and somehow kept the whole thing playable when the sky clearly had other plans.
🌨And to everyone who turned up, again and again — to help with ground maintenance, mopping up, dragging covers on, dragging covers off, and repeating that cycle more times than anyone cares to count… thank you.👏
🍻To Georgia for keeping the bar & drinks flowing, dealing with sams tantrums & providing a shoulder for Mike to cry on every time it started raining ...again 😂
And the best part?
We get to do it all again in two weeks’ time when we host Lancashire U16 v Lincolnshire U16 🙄
Tomorrow..... back to some sort of normality
