Richard Edwards

Where am I?: It’s Thursday, so it must be Utilita Bowl…

ONE WELL-KNOWN former cricketer from the 1980s once confided to The Cricket Paper that it was “something approaching a miracle” that more cricketers weren’t involved in late-night car crashes as they dashed from fixture to fixture in a gigantic game of catch-up with no real winners.
Now Hampshire’s Joe Weatherley wonders if we have reached a similar point.
The fixtures in this summer’s T20 Blast often saw cricketers jump in their cars to head to their next match late at night, following an exhausting day of travell...