Despite supporting Gloucestershire, I don’t dislike Somerset. There is no real antipathy between the two West Country rivals, or at least none that I have ever experienced, and I can’t imagine that many Gloucestershire fans didn’t feel at least a tinge of sympathy as Somerset came so close in so many competitions last year.
However, I couldn’t help but laugh when I score the score from Taunton last night, where Warwickshire finished their first innings on 642 all out. The two seamers recruited/snatched/poached* from Gloucestershire, Steve Kirby and Gemaal Hussain, took 1 for 81 and 1 for 154 respectively.
Meanwhile, at Cardiff, Gloucestershire bowled out Glamorgan for just 202, with Ian Saxelby finishing with figures of 14-4-53-5. This, of course, after last week’s opener in which two debutants, Liam Norwell and David Payne, both took five wickets in an innings.
Schadenfreude can, occasionally, be a wonderful thing.
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