Are you coming to England for 06/07 then? I was thinking about making the opposite trip! Goodbye Europe - hello Antipodes! Actually, I was hoping of finding a job where the period April to September was UK based and October to March based in New Zealand. Cricket all year round!!! Might even learn to play if I could get a game all year round....

Just to throw my ability in to the maelstrom - middle order batsman and occasional slow-medium bowler (gets it straight, but no movement).

I'll always remember the time in a friendly match I was bowling to a Hampshire league batsman and he struck the ball right down deep-square leg's throat to be dismissed. I was chuffed as he'd taken the bowling apart. Wasn't so happy when he came up to me in the bar afterwards just to let me know it was the worst ball he'd ever been dismissed by. Arrogant sod! Still, I had the last laugh there. Also, some guy hit me for 4 sixes in a row and had the gall to tell me where he was going to hit the next one. So I gave him my 'slower ball' (you wouldn't think it could actually get any slower) he went to slog and miss and I uprooted the off-stump (ok, knocked the bail off the off-stump)

I wonder what fun awaits me this season?!?

Actually, I could always see about a ground in Essex, RBLC.... I'll give it some thought