THIS week has been pretty quiet for me because I haven’t been involved with the Hampshire first-team that much.

I wasn’t involved in the weekend’s pretty boring draw against Lancashire and I also wasn’t in the team for this week’s game against Durham.

You get a lot of teams going for draws in four-day cricket and I think that Lancashire were always trying to get one against us.

I really haven’t played as much cricket as I’d like this month, which is obviously a bit frustrating.

The mood has been good after we booked our place at finals day last week but we’ve been straight back into the county championship games.

Over the next week, we’ve got three games back to back with barely a day’s rest in between, so it’s going to be really tiring for everyone involved in them.

Of course, that’s what happens when you’re a professional cricketer –it’s what we get paid to do, so you have to get on with it.

Hopefully it means that there may be spaces in the team that I could come into.

Neil McKenzie will be off to play in the Champions League soon, meaning that there’s a place in the squad there, but there will also be other people vying for it.

Because I’ve not been playing, I was back again for Goatacre at the weekend.

I batted well and got a good score and it was just good to help them out.

Obviously, the standard is a lot different when you play at that level but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

As a batsman, you probably get a lot more balls that are there to be hit but you have to concentrate – otherwise you’ll get out.

I’ll be playing this weekend because it’s their big title-decider against Lechlade and I want to help them get promotion.

It was the aim for them this year and the club should be playing at a higher level and not in the league that they’re in.

It’s a huge game for Goatacre and hopefully I can help them win it.