Local rivals Gloucester and Somerset help increase Thatcher’s share price at a Bristol county ground for another evening of T20.
Whats this to do with the website? The county ground used to be served by Ashley Down railway station making life easier for residents and cricket fans. The country ground is less than a half a mile from the site of the old Ashley Down Station.
With the four tracking of Filton Bank in progress as this article is being written, capacity will be more than adequate for local trains to call a the station. Without causing disruption to the new electric London trains.
The T20 matches consist of 20 overs ensuring that the duration of the matches are under some sort of control rain and quality of play withstanding. It is a fusion of some of the entertainment of baseball (but in a rowdy British way) combined with the tension of getting the batsman out similar to goal being scored in football.
Being a local Derby with plenty of cider there was a tendency of some good natured rowdiness including a few streakers, well only one went the full monty.