“We’ve got plenty of stats on what rain we’ve had: five and a half feet on southern England in the last 18 months, nearly 800mm since October,” says Gloucestershire’s head groundsman, Sean Williams, between blotting sessions.
“If we had three dry days in a row it would give us a fighting chance … but it is constant. We’re pushing water around down here. We had two days of dry on the weekend but another downpour on Sunday night and it is back to square one.”
