Pain as rain falls mainly in May

THE chairman of Sidmouth Cricket Club, Richard Sommers, has lamented the timing of poor weather, which wreaked havoc on the Tolchards Devon Cricket League in May.Sidmouth had three matches abandoned last month, with any hopes of rearranging them looking increasingly slim due to a lack of free weekends in the calendar.And after a 2020 campaign that was ruined by Covid, the intervention of the weather has been especially frustrating.Sommers said: “After the reduced 2020 season, everyone was dead keen to start playing cricket again, in a sense the weather couldn’t have c...

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