Avid readers will know that recent Tour Reports have often included comments about the weather, and naturally so, since it is not only the starting point for most standard British conversations but also has a major impact on the cricket. 2025 was no different. Spring was early, dry and prolonged and by late July meaningful rain was a distant memory, even in parts of the West Country! As a result, some of the pitches we encountered were more favourable to bowlers than they have usually been in recent years, and all the better for that in terms of the balance of the game perhaps. One or two went further and might have been considered “sporting” by that majority of today’s Sou’westers who don’t remember the days before covers became the norm almost everywhere. Nevertheless, looking at the results overall, we seem to have coped with this better than our opponents.