Rich get richer

The worst kept secret in Pembrokeshire cricket was made public on Thursday (Feb 22) when Cresselly announced via Twitter that Daniel Sutton would be joining them for the forthcoming campaign.
Last season’s best batsman by a distance, he’ll be joining up with a team that already boasts an impressive lineup of capable willow wielders and will more than likely open up the innings with Adam Chandler, a magnificent player in his own right.
Sutton scored 936 runs in league cricket last season, add that to Cresselly’s team total of 2579 and that would have amounted to 742 runs more than Whitland, last season’s top team run gatherers.
He virtually carried Johnston's batting on his own and his departure will leave a gaping hole in a line up that was already depleted after Steven Mills moved up to the South Wales Premier League.
Take his runs off Johnston's team total and they would have scored just 1775 moving them from second in the run gathering table to second from bottom.
Last year was a tough one for the Tigers and they narrowly avoided going down so imagine how hard this season is going to be now their best player has gone?
No disrespect to the others in the team but that only leaves Lee Summons to steer the ship and if he was to go elsewhere in pursuit of more competitive cricket and the chance for some honours their season will be over before it's begun.
He scored 532 runs last year so combine those with Sutton’s and take them off Johnston's team total and the Tigers would have only scored 1243 runs for the year.
If they were to bat in 18 innings’ their average would amount to just 69 and it doesn't’ take a genius to work out totals like that won’t win them many games.
Cresselly will find life much easier, runs won’t be a problem and now that Carew have been banished to division two, their bowlers will have one less team to worry about as they attempt to win the league.

With Sutton joining them, you’d find few people betting against them doing that.

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