The Beamer

Kyle Quartermaine It’s fair to say Narberth’s Kyle Quartermaine is not a big fan of Carew. Anyone who follows his Twitter feed can attest to that. A couple of weeks ago he was lambasting them on the social media platform calling them all of the names under the sun following an ill-tempered league fixture and this week, he backs it up with a scintillating performance with the bat to help his team beat the Rooks in the Harrison-Allen cup. David Lovell used to say ‘sledge me if you’re good enough’ and after those tweets (which led to County Chairman Paul Webb tweeting ‘easy Kyle’) Carew would have been forgiven for giving him a send off had he failed against them in the cup. He didn’t. This time he let his cricket do the talking in what could possibly be the most exciting game of the season so far. According to some well respected judges, Quartermaine is a proper player; a batsman of style, substance, power and flair. A player of colour if you will, someone who can light up a ga

Second week of May, we’re about to start our fourth league fixture and yet it feels as though the season has yet to move out of first gear. Last weekend aside the weather hasn’t helped and neither has the fact that the football and rugby seasons seem to be never ending leading to fixture clashes and player unavailability. If the Welsh Rugby Union have their way this will happen more often as plans are afoot to move the junior rugby season from a winter to summer sport in the belief it will encourage more people to play the game. If it did move, and the talk is that in Pembrokeshire this will definitely happen, it will have a huge impact on our summer game. The fear is such that high ranking Cricket Wales officials have already met with Welsh Rugby Union bigwigs including former Grand Slam winning skipper and all-round Welsh hero Ryan Jones to try and thrash out some form of agreement. I’m not sure what the outcome of those talks were but it seemed constructive enough with Cricket Wales