GLOUCESTERSHIRE have won a county championship match at Bristol.

The success against Glamorgan has gone a long way towards easing my pain about Forest Green Rovers losing at Wembley.

The cricket victory was done the straight way. Glamorgan were bowled out twice and on the final day spinners Jack Taylor and Graeme van Buuren took seven wickets between them.

Craig Miles took the other three and also scored 86 runs without being dismissed.

This victory was very much a team effort and was achieved without Will Tavare or Liam Norwell.

The reasons for their absences are not entirely clear.

Opening bowler Liam is not playing for ‘medical reasons’ and Will has problems with his knee.

Those in high places at the club are being very cagey about what they say.

Much more was said about the T20 Blast on Friday evening.

Sussex were declared winners by one run after Duckworth-Lewis calculations.

Such results are always unsatisfactory but this one was especially so. First of all, Gloucestershire were penalised six runs for bowling their overs slowly, secondly the umpires took the players off the field without warning the Gloucestershire batsmen, giving them no chance to overtake the Sussex score.

I have no problem with the latter as the laws are quite clear.

As far as the slow over-rate was concerned, one of the reasons for this was that the Sussex batsmen hit so many huge sixes it took time to retrieve the ball.

Perhaps common sense should have prevailed and the umpires been more tolerant.

Gloucestershire should have bowled better, however.

Two left arm quick bowlers bowled six overs between them and conceded 104 runs.

Having a generous nature I shall not name the culprits.

Readers may find it difficult to identify them.

In this technological age newspapers go to print increasingly early.

Not in the Echo, Citizen, Western Daily Press, nor in any national daily could I find the Friday night T20 scores.

This newspaper’s website does a much better job.

Later starts for T20 matches puts me in a minority. I do not like them. To get to Bristol for 6.30pm means encountering the M4 at its busiest.

This is not a life-enhancing experience. Sunday afternoons are much preferable.

Meanwhile, there was another exciting win over Welsh cricketing opposition. Gwent lost by 180 runs to Gloucestershire U10s, which is great news for the development of talent in the region.

We cannot forget the football either quite yet.

New Forest Green Rovers manager Mark Cooper is reshaping the playing squad and seven have already left.

These include club captain David Pipe and full back James Jennings, both of whom made some worthy contributions last season.

This shows how uncertain life is for footballers in the lower leagues.

Mark needs to be in action quickly as many good players have already been snapped up.

Kenny Davis, for many years the lynchpin of Braintree, has moved to Boreham Wood.

He would have been an asset at the New Lawn.

Jilly Cooper, who seems now to be a firm Forest Green fan, once compared watching football to listening to Wagner.

“Some dreadful half-hours but some glorious moments,” she said.

Let us hope that under manager Cooper there will be more glorious moments.

There certainly will be glorious moments at the beer festival organised by Dursley Rugby Club soon.

Indeed it is fantastic to see the first pieces of turf being dug up from the ground at the club on Saturday for the much bigger new changing rooms.

The sod cutting took place on a rainy lunchtime but it is testament to what can be done when you want something badly enough.

The old changing rooms were in rack and ruin and new ones were desperately needed.

So Dursley, under the chairmanship of Simon Bilous, have worked extremely hard as a club to raise the funds through everything from bring and buy sales to coffee mornings and various other fund-raising activities, including a Ton Up Club bearing the name of England number eight Ben Morgan, to put the pounds into the coffers.

And now they have those thousands of pounds needed, work, which was delayed for a few weeks due to an access issue on a footpath, is underway.

They hope to have the changing rooms finished before Christmas and, with Dursley and District Athletic Club also using the facilities, they hope more sports people will venture there and enjoy them too. For now. a big ‘well done’ to them.