WELL I guess I spoke too soon about putting away the jumpers and thermals as, while we had no rain, it was pretty cold standing out there, especially when the sun disappeared.

I was certainly grateful for the extra sweater I threw in my bag before leaving home.

I know it was the first game for both teams as last week's matches could not be played, but both will have to increase their over rate.

Fourteen overs in an hour might be okay at Test match level, but teams in the BCL have three hours and five minutes in which to bowl their 50 overs.

Failure to do so faces consequences.

If the fielding side only bowls 47 overs within that time then they can only bat for that number of overs. If the side fielding second fails to bowl within the time limit then they give away five runs per over.

Both teams could have fallen foul of this rule.

The side fielding first only managed to avoid this by bowling the last man out, otherwise they were three overs short.

In the second innings the side avoided this when the winning runs were hit with them being four overs behind.

The question of when is a batsman ready to receive the ball arose.

In trying to get through their overs, the spinner completed his over very quickly, so much so that the batsman remarked it was too quick.

Now if the batsman settles in his stance and looks up to watch the bowler then he is ready to face the ball.

If he is not ready then he should not look up, and, if the bowler has started to move, should pull away.

In that case the umpire would call and signal dead ball.

A first for league matches was the use of the par score.

Because of the possibility of rain, a message went out to use Duckworth Lewis and the par score right from the start of the second innings.

The scorers were told and duly acted upon advice as to where to put the par score.

Par score is the total the team should be on at the end of the over. It increases quite considerably when a wicket falls.

To win a match you need to score one more than the par score.

If you only achieve the par score then it is a tie, and if you don’t reach the par score then you lose.

Thankfully we did not have any rain so it did not need to be used, but it was interesting keeping an eye on where the run chase should be.

Well done to the young scorer and tally boy for keeping the par score up to date.