When will we learn ?

In 1968 when t was at school one of my best pals – then and now – had a father involved in cricket and one of his charges were the International Cavaliers, a troupe of international cricketers like the Harlem Globe Trotters, sponsored by cigarette company Rothmans.

They had come to England but were short of practice so my friend’s suggestion that they might play the school first eleven which was readily accepted.

So my pal and I went to the school cricketing grounds in Osterley, West London.

The heavens opened and not a ball was bowled.

My pal observed that you cannot organise anything in England because of the weather.

Fifty two years later the cricketing authorities and planners seem unaware of this.

Yesterday, hungry for live cricket and missing the Festival week in June, I had hoped, as a member of Arundel Cricket Club, to see a game between an XI selected by ex coach Mark Robinson against a Duke of Norfolk side.

In the morning, with a forecast of rain in the afternoon, I called it off.

I wanted to watch Sussex Sharks v Surrey (abandoned) and the T20 international of England v Pakistan (abandoned).

Given there were no spectators at the last two games you might have thought this possibility might have been anticipated and resolved.