Cricket season has finally arrived, and after three seasons that have been impacted by bushfires, COVID-19 and endless flooding rain, cricketers on the South Coast are hoping that 2022/23 can provide a relatively interruption-free season of hard fought cricket.

The combining of the 1st Grade competition of teams from both the South Coast and Shoalhaven areas has added a touch of intrigue to the new season, and a full 22 rounds of cricket to decide just who is the number one cricket club in the area. 

It has all led me to offer you my unqualified, uninformed, uninteresting preview of the upcoming 1st Grade season, by running through the recent three seasons of both competitions, and then a fairly broadly rambling assessment of all of the teams involved, based solely on MyCricket and what little knowledge I have retained.

So if that kind of thing interests you, climb aboard, for this episode of the podcast that continues to offer less informed views than Brendan Julien's commentary, Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.