Beyond the boundary: Kent's Darren Stevens writes exclusively for the KM Group
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It’s not really what you want, to have
more than a week off, two games in quick succession and then
another four or five days off.
When you get a break like this it just
kills your form dead. Personally I’d had a couple of lean games
before the break but I feel for Jarre and Jonesy who were
putting some good form together.
When you’re hitting the ball well you
want to keep it going as long as you can.
All this time off and then we have a
run of games packed on top of each other. We had the chance to have
our say on the scheduling earlier in the season and I think
something like 89 per cent of players said that something needed to
be done, so hopefully they’ll do something about it.
Having said that, I was a bit tired
and the week off has given me the chance to rest my body a bit and
do some work in the gym.
I’ve had a friend over from South
Africa and I’ve been acting as a tour guide. We’ve been doing all
the touristy things.
We’ve been to London and driven all
round the coast, visited some nice country pubs and generally had a
nice break.
When I have time-off I like to take a
break from the game completely so I haven’t watched any of the
England games.
It’s been pretty full-on cricket for
me this season so it was nice to do something different.
I did, though, watch an hour of the
England under-19 game at Canterbury last Friday. I popped up to do
a quick session with Farby and stuck around after. There are some
good players in there, I can tell you.
I’m now looking forward to getting
back into action and feel refreshed and raring to go.
This season has been a bit hit and
miss – more miss than hit if I’m honest. But if we can get a decent
result against Lancashire, who are not at their strongest, then it
could set us up for a good finish.
We are still in with a slim chance in
the Clydesdale Bank 40.
It would be great to finish the season
on a high for the players and the club.
With the season nearing its close, I
have agreed to go and play for Otago in the New Zealand Twenty20
season this winter.
It will be my first time on the South
Island and I’m already looking forward to staying in
Queenstown.
Thursday, August 19 2010
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