Rob Jackson has arrived in Bergerac! Without a care for the dastardly Ryanair, Rob flew his own plane to Bergerac, to establish an Allstars bridgehead in the Dordogne. One down, 12 to go!

The 2010 Allstars Tour has been thrown into doubt by a general strike in France — leading to the cancellation of our Ryanair flight on Thursday.
Watch this space for further news…

Rumours that a website along the lines of www.becomeawag.com is to be set up to cater for the many thousands of women who wish to date an Allstar are so far unconfirmed. We will bring you more news as we get it.

One thing which the Festival highlighted was that lots of Allstars really like the “Fifteen15Fifteen15” format (thanks to Chadders for the name), involving two innings per side, each of 15 overs, in which the batting order is reversed for the second innings. The bowling restrictions usually involve most people having a bowl – I believe that at the Festival this year almost everyone bowled at least 2 overs. (The rule in place was maximum of 5 overs per bowler over the whole game, minimum of 7 bowlers to be used.)
For me and others, the format real contributed to the atmosphere and the enjoyability of the day. I for one would like to play more such games.
So I am starting a campaign today to encourage the playing of more games in this format, not just “fun” games at the annual-ish Festival, but regular season games too. After all, aren’t all our games supposed to be fun?
If you agree, and would like to see the Allstars play more Fifteen15Fifteen15 games, please say so in the comments box below.

Player of the Day was Venay, for his allround performance with bat ball and in the field. Venay was particularly happy to catch James A in the first innings and then bowl him in the second innings, after which he announced that he had forgiven James for a rather unfortunate umpiring decision in Ibiza.