Somerset Chief Executive Peter Anderson will be spending the day along with his players at Lympstone on Wednesday, where he will join them on the Royal Marines assault course.

Earlier this week he told me, "I've been talked into competing in a training day at Lympstone on Wednesday. The lads are looking forward to me negotiating the underground pipes!"

In addition to his day job at Somerset Mr Anderson is a busy man at the moment.

"I'm busy taking my level 2 ECB Coaching Certificate which will be very useful to me for three reasons. Firstly it will help me at Seaton Cricket Club where I'm a pretty involved on a voluntary basis, secondly it will be good for me as a chief executive to see another perspective on the game, and thirdly I hope it will be an example to others," the Somerset boss told me.

Mr Anderson is also attending an ECB Groundsman's course." This will help me in my duties as groundsman at Seaton Cricket Club, and it will also help me to add to my knowledge of their job, having a top groundsman here at Taunton, not that I am going to challenge him!"

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