Jake Weatherald

A lot of coffee and watching miserable weather come down.

The wrong time of year to be a cricketer, that's for sure.

Yeah, it was good fun.

The weather was a lot better than here, weirdly, which is good.

So I got an opportunity to be outside playing some good conditions and some good wickets where the sun was out, which has made a big difference over the UK.

So I was very lucky.

There's a lot of high scoring games.

I got to bat some time, which has made my time over there very enjoyable.

I'm obviously still trying to work on the stuff I learned from the Ashes and stuff like that and my technical stuff there.

But at the same time, trying to work on some game plan stuff over the UK and understand what the conditions might hold if I go over there for an Ashes series.

So for me, it was just getting to better understand the conditions and what the environment might be like if I was to play over there again, but also work on...

um, some things I want to work, um, get right for the potential of the series coming up against Bangladesh.

So, um, it was a bit of both things, but at the same time, still trying to make runs and be at the middle.

That's the best place to learn how to bat, but also fading off coaches and stuff there and other players around, uh, county cricket, understanding the conditions there and how the best guy about it with game plans.

But that suit my game really.

No, that was my first stint.

I played quite a bit of club cricket over there early in my career.

So it is all different.

Obviously, the standard is a lot different, obviously, playing county cricket than playing club cricket.

But at the same time, you still had a pretty decent understanding of what the ball might do and what the wickets might be like.