I am returning to the cricket field this year for the first time in 33 years, aged 57, I am going to donate money to the NHS for every run I score, and if you want to support me that would be great!

I am also going to recognise their exceptional work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by wearing rainbow laces, using a rainbow grip, wearing an NHS pin on my cap/sunhat, sweatbands and having NHS rainbow stickers on the back of my bats.

Subject to selection I am hoping to play for Penkridge on Saturday and Sundays and to help Barlaston on Sundays with their newly launched development team as often as I can. I am registered with both on Play Cricket and that will be the official tally of any runs scored throughout the season. I will also include them in my weekly cricket diary, which Gray-Nicolls are generously supporting.

As a family we have been very fortunate to date throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and have been more than aware of the exceptional performance of the NHS. I grew up ‘knowing’ that the NHS was there when you needed it (and I most certainly have over the years – my mother used to joke that a weekend just wasn’t a weekend without her having to take me to the A&E department as a boy), and despite everything that has been thrown at them they continued to be there for us.

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