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[uknsaunders]

We started our first game on the Saturday 8th April and finish on the 24th September. Does anyone play a longer season?

[alexrickyponting]

We play 23rd April to 24th september, so a few weeks less than you but still decent enough
My old club have an annual New Years Eve/Day (cant remember which) game which never had the greatest weather funnily enough

[Colesy]

We're meant to have a game 1st of October, whether that will happen I don't know!

[darthlewis1]

Are you just talking about just saturday cricket? or is it every club game played?

[uknsaunders]

every game played darthlewis1 - except for the xmas ones lol!

Played a game on Oct 1 - square was nearly underwater due to heavy rain, but they rolled back the covers and the track was dry,bare, white - could've been straight out of mid-july :-) . Weather stayed dry and we got a 30 over game in!

[darthlewis1]

Then my club had it's first game on the 16th of April and the last will be on the 25th of September unless a friendly match is organised for the 1st of October.

[ianbuchanan]

Couple of years ago we played a cup final on the 28th September and it hadn't rained in 3 weeks leading up to the game, best wicket I've ever seen at our club!

[johan95]

16th April to the 2nd October (weather permitting) this year...
I think it's one week shorter than your season though Nick...

[langer17]

My 09-10 season went from mid September to the end of April including all finals (lost the Grand Final) so 7 months.

[uknsaunders]

that's cheating you're in Aus

If my lot played in Aus they would play all year round, so I think that makes you a fair weather cricketer 

[A-Swing-And-A-Miss]

Started 30th of April and finished on 27th of August so quite a short season compared to some of you guys on here. I don't see how you can play into September? Light was starting to be a problem in our last few games and surely would deteriorate fairly rapidly into September would it not?

[stevie_94_]

We start at 1 from september on a sunday and play 35 overs normally

[uknsaunders]

play 45 overs from 1.30 on Saturday, like we do for every league game. The last week (24th September) is an interclub game which we start at 11.00am. From previous experience you either shorten the overs (from 50 in league cricket to 40/35) and/or start earlier (from 1.30 to 12.30). No great problems playing to the end of September.

Weather is normally pretty good, better than April in fact.

[langer17]

that's cheating you're in Aus

If my lot played in Aus they would play all year round, so I think that makes you a fair weather cricketer 

Haha, usually I would agree but last season I had 6 out of 17 games cancelled prior to the Saturday due to constant rain and flooding and also had another 3 or 4 rain affected in some way, plus heaps of training sessions were cancellef so had barely any cricket last season.

[Canners]

Haha, usually I would agree but last season I had 6 out of 17 games cancelled prior to the Saturday due to constant rain and flooding and also had another 3 or 4 rain affected in some way, plus heaps of training sessions were cancellef so had barely any cricket last season.

i thought the weather was nice in OZ