With six divisions in the county and a wealth of junior cricket being played, Pembrokeshire's cricket is in a healthy state. As always there is debate over the rules the county adopt, the Winning and Losing draw was a huge debate for years before it was abolished which seems to have been the correct call. Playing a game for 8 hours and having no winner always was a hard one to explain to your partner when getting home from a long day in the field. 

The top two divisions are 45 over games in the league, which is a time consuming length of innings. However as you go down the division's the number of overs does decrease which also seems to have been a good move from the county club. 

Last season saw the success of the midweek T20 competition run by Craig Butland which is a modern concept and seems to have gone down very well. One debate that came to light last season was the coloured kit and whites debate. Whites have always been the kit of cricket in the county and county's up and down the country. Proffesional one day cricket has been played in coloured kit with a white ball for well over twenty years now. Many local clubs turned to coloured kit last season, which when it's colours vs whites does look slightly odd, maybe it should be one or the other. 

Perhaps the bigger issue here is the fact that games played with coloured kit use a white or pink ball as opposed to the red ball. When colours are mixed it makes making any call on the ball used throughout the county impossible. Is it time to all go to the more modern coloured kit?

However with that being said this is a small issue and generally the Pembrokeshire County Club are doing a great job of running the game in the county and we hope to see a wealth of cricket played up and down the county between now and September.

 

 

 

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