It's been quite a fortnight to be involved at Glamorgan.

Two great wins on the field in the West Country and the unveiling of our fantastic new ground on Friday.

There was a sense of excitement in the air as people from various organisations were scurrying round putting the finishing touches to the stadium ahead of our match against Gloucestershire.

The changing rooms and facilities for the players are first class. I've managed to get a huge double sofa in my corner of the dressing room which is actually more comfy than mine at home!

There is a huge shower and bath room and a great viewing area with plasma televisions wherever you look. It makes you feel special as players and gives the team a huge boost.

The game itself was one I feel we should have won after reducing Glouster-shire to 16 - 3 with some fine bowling from Jason Gillespie.

I think we can probably put the blame down to Matthew Maynard when umpire Jeremy Lloyds turned down a huge LBW decision on Chris Taylor, who went on to win the game with a fine 60 not out. Matt had beaten Jeremy in a golf tournament the previous day and he must have decided to get his own back! Just kidding!

Maybe it was a chance for Gloustershire to get their own back after we had beaten them convincingly the week before in the championship. That result in Bristol was a huge boost for the club.

After winning the toss on a green wicket we decided to bat as the outfield was wet and David Hemp thought that if the ball got wet it would be difficult for their bowlers to control.

Problem was the ball was moving off the pitch so much we could not get it into the outfield!

After some determined batting from the top order we managed to get a respectable total on the board. Both teams decided to set up a game on the last day with Gloucester requiring 315 from 80 overs. Jason Gillespie was outstanding again with the new ball and just shows what a great acquisition he is to our team this year. All the bowlers chipped in and when Robert Croft got the last wicket the celebrations started.

It felt great for the team after all the hard work we had done in pre-season.

Being able to sing the team song again with the boys and relax with a beer was a great feeling knowing all the hard work and rehabilitation over the past year was worthwhile.

It was definitely a feeling I wanted to experience again this summer. After milking the celebrations for as long as possible we packed up the kit van and made our way home.

My travel partner for the week was our young opening batsman Gareth Rees. I decided to let Gareth drive home as I had been bowling all day and wanted a relaxing journey. Some hope.

As we came over the bridge and approached the Celtic Manor on the right the traffic was slowing and we were involved in a pile-up - on a Friday night in rush hour! It was a total accident and luckily nobody was hurt.

So there I was celebrating my first championship win in 18 months stood on the hard shoulder of the M4 on a Friday night!

It was down to Taunton on the Sunday for our first one day game of the season.

Somerset are a very strong team with the likes of Marcus Trescothick, and Justin Langer. We have always seemed to struggle against them so we knew we would have to be at our best.

Some fine batting from David Hemp at the top of the order got us to a respectable total of 224 off our 50 overs.

Getting Trescothick and Langer early were huge wickets for us and we knew if we kept our nerve we could win.

During a wicket break our 12th man brought out the refreshments and one of the bottles contained an energy drink. I looked at some of the lads but guessed it must have been for Jamie Dalrymple as he is the only one who could have spelt electrolyte!

Beating Somerset was extra pleasing as they had five players who were ineligible to play for England. Meaning they were either overseas players or Kolpak' players. This is something that I feel the ECB is going to have to address as many younger English players are getting starved of the opportunity to show off their skills at county level.

Take the game this week with Leicestershire v Northampton. There could be 12 players in the match who are not eligible to play for England! That can't be working towards making the England team stronger.

During the past fortnight we played ten days of cricket. Even though it's early in the season it can become quite tough mentally.

We were on the road for the ten days and only spent one night at home. It can be hard on the players who have young families and Mathew Wood's wife is expecting twins at any time!

We now face another thirteen days out of fourteen travelling.

During these times when you get a couple of days off I feel it's important to get away from cricket. You need to refresh yourself physically but more importantly, I feel, mentally.

I took the opportunity to visit my sister in Twickenham. It was good to catch up with Kate and get away from some of the boys too!

I returned back to training on Monday physically and mentally rejuvenated and ready for the challenging days ahead.

This is a really important time for us leading up to the 20/20 competition as we could get near the top of the championship table and also book a place in the quarter finals of the Friends Provident one day competition.

Lord's here we come!