WE’RE off down to Cornwall for a three-day game this weekend and that always tends to be a difficult place to go to.

The wickets down there seem to be prepared differently to how they are up here. I don’t really know what it is but there seems to be a different type of grass and maybe the soil is different.

It’s a little advantage for them because they’re used to playing on it but Grampound Road, where we’re playing, is a relatively new ground and I think they’ve only played one three-day game on there before.

We need to try and get back to what we were doing four weeks ago when we won the game against Dorset.

We didn’t bat well enough against Berkshire a couple of weeks ago but we’ve added a bit more experience with the bat this week, with Ed Kilbee coming back in to the squad.

There are a few other people in the team that haven’t been scoring as many runs as we’d like to and the pressure is on them to perform because we’ve got plenty of plays in the county that are champing at the bit to be involved.

Mike Reynolds, who has been playing well, and Steve Bullen aren’t available this weekend but I’m sure they’ll be available next time and will be adding to the competition for places.

Andy Carroll came in last time out and was the man-of-the-match for the way that he bowled well for long spells, and he’s kept his place – it just shows that if you’re performing well, you’ll keep your slot in the team.

Three days is a long old time, so we just have to try and make sure we bat our 90 overs and get those four bonus points that you get for getting to 325 runs.

A lot of the players play together for teams all over the place, so they pair up and travel down on a Saturday evening, as soon as their games are finished.

We don’t usually see people at Cornwall until gone 11, getting on midnight, but it looks like we’re staying in a hotel spa facility, which is somewhere that we haven’t stayed before.

The players will have plenty of time to relax after the day’s play and they’ll be able to use the facilities, so I hope they appreciate being treated like county cricketers.