A few more clubs have started up this week or are preparing for their first weekend of 2019 club cricket action. We have a mix of starting XI's, ground shots and match reports from the grass roots level.

Finally, back to something resembling cricketing weather and plenty of fixtures over the weekend!

Sale experienced contrasting fortunes in their double header against Bowdon on Saturday. Sale 2nd XI ran out comfortable winners by 8 wickets in their Vivio Cheshire County League division one.

Only Bourne topped the 200 run mark in the Lincs ECB Premier League and skipper Pete Morgan scored the weekend’s only century as damp weather earlier in the week kept the run rates down.

Welcome back to Around the Grounds 2019, where we recap the best from club cricket all the way up to the international game.

Weekend number three of the season for the first and second teams, whereas the third and fourth teams were ready for their second scheduled weekend of cricket.

Rydal Penrhos School welcomed Marylebone Cricket Club for their prestigious annual fixture last week.

Alex Hales was prevented from making his scheduled return to county cricket on Friday, with rain wiping out the Royal London One-Day Cup match between Notts Outlaws and Durham at Grantham.

After the wonderful weather of last weekend, it was perhaps predictable that the second weekend of the season would have conditions that were slightly less suited than the week before – especially given that it was my first game of the season!

Welcome back to Around the Grounds 2019, where we recap the best from club cricket all the way up to the international game.

The Sale Cricket Derby was washed out on Saturday as storm Hannah caused the whole of the Vivio Cheshire County league programme to be cancelled.

A few more clubs have started up this week or are preparing for their first weekend of 2019 club cricket action. We have a mix of starting XI's, ground shots and match reports from the grass roots level.

Excitement is building ahead of a prestigious annual cricket contest at Rydal Penrhos.

After a long winter, and last week’s pre-season friendlies, the first and second teams got their respective league seasons underway in brilliant sunshine on Saturday.

Sale Cricket Club started the 2019 season in glorious sunshine with a double header against Urmston.

Home advantage meant nothing in the first week of the Lincolnshire ECB Premier League season as all five home teams lost.

In our book, ‘A Leading Edge for Captains’, we look at the issues associated with entering a new dressing room and how a new player to a club or even a team within a club will need welcoming in and made to feel part of that team.

A century by Byron Boshoff helped Durbanville Cricket Club (DCC) seal victory at the Momentum National Club Championships when they beat Clares Cricket Club on the fifth and final day in Pretoria on Wednesday.

The Lincolnshire ECB Premier League goes into its 2019 programme with only 11 teams after Grimsby Town unfortunately had to withdraw from the competition.

Welcome back to Around the Grounds 2019, where we recap the best from club cricket all the way up to the international game.