Blogs

During this season we will be running various blog competitions. Last year we ran this internally and our employees were very creative and witty with their blogs. Why not take a few minutes to read some of last years, maybe pick up some tips in case you are the lucky one chosen to write for us this season!

Further details of how to enter our blog competition will be issued throughout the course of the season.

Finals day - 27 August 2011

• '27 August 2011 and to Birmingham for finals day of this engrossing tournament. Conversation between my friend and I on the way to the Midlands was as intellectual and argumentative as ever...' read more from Adam Lewis.
• 'Cricket can get no more dramatic than this, as a rain-sodden Edgbaston crowd watch history being made, with the first ever super over needed to decide the first semi-final of the day...' read more from Jack Chapman.
• 'After an early start to get here we arrived in Birmingham city centre. Then it hit us - we saw men dressed as chickens, bananas, strange hats and shirts, moustaches; yes, the T20 finals had landed...' read more from Jonathan Williams.

Hampshire vs. Durham 7 August 2011
Guest blogger: Patrick Hagan

Hi and welcome to Extra Cover, my take on Sunday's Friends Life t20 Quarter Final between Hampshire and Durham, which ended in a fairly comprehensive win for the current t20 title holders...

Glamorgan vs. Gloucestershire 15 July 2011
Guest blogger: Jack Chapman

On a wet Friday night the Gloucestershire faithful headed across the bridge to the new SWALEC stadium. The match was a dead rubber and all that was at stake was some Anglo-Welsh pride. It was also Sri Lankan star, Muttiah Muralitharan's last game...

Hampshire vs. Middlesex 15 July 2011
Guest blogger: Adam Lewis

Rain falls as spirits rise. I don't mean those sorts of spirits either, although judging by a group of guys I saw all dressed up as Lady Gaga for a stag-do, those spirits probably weren't in too short of supply! On Friday night the rain drizzled...

Surrey vs. Kent 14 July 2011
Guest blogger: Philip Harrison

Thanks to Friends Life for giving me the opportunity to write my first blog at The Oval, one of the greatest cricket grounds in the country! All looked good from the start of the evening, a warm summer evening and around 15,000 keen fans making...

Gloucestershire vs. Middlesex 13 July 2011
Guest blogger: Jamie Flook

On a pleasant warm Wednesday evening at Gloucestershire HQ, the Bristol-based outfit looked to beat a Middlesex team who like themselves had no chance of qualifying from the t20 South Group and progressing to the desired semi-finals stage...

Gloucestershire vs. Middlesex 13 July 2011
Guest blogger: Jack Chapman

Following the emphatic 10-wicket loss to Glamorgan three days previous, the Gloucestershire fans were never going to turn up in their droves and that showed as the turnstile operator was there twiddling his thumbs when I made it to the ground...

Gloucestershire vs. Glamorgan 10 July 2011
Guest blogger: Jack Chapman

What a beautiful day of sunshine. The ideal weather for an English game of cricket, with all the quintessential items that comprise a Sunday t20 - the ice cream van, the kids playing cricket on any grass available, the allotted groups of...

Somerset vs. Gloucestershire 8 July 2011
Guest blogger: Jonathan Williams

It was a tense journey in. The chit chat on the way with my step dad and the other passengers could not hide how I felt about what may or may not happen over the next few hours of my life. Yes it was a huge match for my home team, Somerset as they...