DARREN STEVENS

There will be those who will have rolled their eyes after the PCA released a statement voicing the players’ concerns about the volume of men’s domestic cricket. That old moan: we play too much. I can understand how it might look. Yes, there are worse things to do for a living than play a lot of cricket.
But until you’ve been in it, bowled 20-odd overs and then been carted off on a long journey to play somewhere else the next day, tired and stiff and sore from unrelenting cricket, then you don’t know what it’s like. For six months of the year there is no respite for many of t...