What day of the week is it again?<\/p>\n
Recently, my days have unfolded through coach windows, hotel corridors and service stations. A familiar story for many players, coaching staff and travelling fans around the country. <\/p>\n
The average professional’s cricket season is a summer spent in transit. <\/p>\n
It is a time where what day it is simply doesn’t matter, your life dictated by fixtures and scheduling. <\/p>\n
Part and parcel of the occupation is regularly travelling around the country to play. And with this comes some excellent away days, one the entire team look forward to.<\/p>\n
Other trips, maybe less so. <\/p>\n
Life on the road can be a really good time. You are constantly spending time with your team-mates and travelling to varying corners of the country. It can be especially good if your team is performing and so are you. <\/p>\n
However, it can sometimes be a difficult time, and often quite intense. <\/p>\n
Last summer, for example, my side had an evening game at The Kia Oval, followed by a travel day home the next day. <\/p>\n
The following morning, we travelled to Durham to play that day – opposite ends of the country in 48 hours!<\/p>\n
Obviously, this is what we sign up for, and this is by no means a complaint about travelling. We are usually well looked after and using coaches means less driving. <\/p>\n
It can still take it out of you, and makes planning your life around cricket more difficult than in the winter, where training takes a more nine to five Monday to Friday nature. <\/p>\n
Games are frequently on the weekend, sometimes midweek and often both. <\/p>\n
Downtime is occasionally sparse, but also can be plentiful, but what day(s) of the week you get free are completely random.<\/p>\n
There are some long trips on the coach, and during these times I feel incredibly grateful to be playing for a Midlands-based side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What day of the week is it again? Recently, my days have unfolded through coach windows, hotel corridors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}