Gloucestershire v Bears Vitality Blast

What year is it? What year is it? What year is it? Oh, Gloucestershire, you tease! What a week it’s been for Shire supporters. On Monday, Losing to Northants by 2 wickets. A disappointing result as Gloucestershire looked to be on top on Days two and three. The bad news of defeat tempered by the signing of replacement overseas bowler, Duan Jansen. Not much was known about Marco Jansen’s twin brother, except for the fact he was Marco Jansen’s twin brother. So we hoped we’d signed a diamond. 

Wednesday came and so did the news that Shire legend David Payne was out for the entire Blast campaign. After Monday’s defeat this was all Gloucestershire fans needed. Should we write off the season now? Just as it seemed our season couldn’t get any worse, then came the news that Dawid Malan will miss the Warwickshire match, owing to a calf muscle strain. Hopefully, Dawid makes a swift recovery and we will see him doing his thing for the Shire soon.