Last Sunday I was looking at the county scorecards in a newspaper and saw that Glamorgan did not bat' in their abandoned match against Gloucestershire.

Did not want to bat' more like. How on earth was that match abandoned with so little play? There was some rain last week, yes, but not that much surely so that only 63 overs were possible in four days.

It smacked of two doomed sides who just did not fancy playing. I should know. I've been in that position myself. But it does not make it right. I can only presume that there were no spectators there waiting for play- the Rugby World Cup and the World Twenty20 were rather more attractive alternatives- but if there were they should complain.

I'll let you into a little secret about that game, too. Dean Cosker was going to open the batting for Glamorgan in that match. And not just because Gareth Rees damaged a thumb fielding - they would have had to find another opener to replace him. No, Cosker was down from the off to open.

For me it summed the whole season up. I like Cosker and he is a good left-arm spinner. He also has more potential with the bat than he has shown. But he has one first class fifty and an average of 12.88 in 145 matches. Some might say that he could not do much worse than Jimmy Maher and they might have a point because Maher averaged a miserable 16.80 in the championship for Glamorgan in 2007. But Maher is a quality player. He averages just under 40 overall in first class cricket, which is very good.

He reminded me of that last Monday when he contacted me in response to being named worst overseas signing of the season' by yours truly in another publication. I was just glad to hear that he was such an avid reader of my stuff even when back in Australia.

But by promoting Cosker, Glamorgan had, to me, given up. Mind you, it did rekindle some memories, and I had a good laugh with Cosker about it last week. For he had opened once before for Glamorgan; in 2002 against Essex at Chelmsford and I was his opening partner. I was also his captain and instructed him to face the one over remaining on the first day without even thinking about my facing a ball. The trouble was that the third ball of the over from Joe Grant Cosker clipped towards the long mid-wicket boundary and there was an easy three in normal circumstances. But we just jogged two and had a giggle.

Essex skipper Ronnie Irani and team-mate Andy Flower did not think it so funny. They thought I was being a coward and told me so. They were probably right, but I never fancied batting in those no-win situations at the end of the day. And, boy, did Irani and Flower carry on about it. In fact they were still going on about as we left the field.

There is a postscript to this story, however. Myself and Cosker did rather well putting on 75 for the first wicket before Cosker went for 37. Modesty forbids the revealing of my final score but, suffice to say, it was a few more than that and both Irani and Flower (a good friend) had quietened down a bit by the time I was dismissed the next day.

Back to now, though, and the Simon Jones saga shows no signs of quietening down. We now have Worcestershire joining the race, their director of cricket, Steve Rhodes, having met with Jones last Sunday. I still have a feeling Jones will remain with Glamorgan despite this, though. The offer from the other county interested, Hampshire, is not as big as first thought. In fact it is little different from Glamorgan's, in that it contains a moderate basic salary with appearance inducements on top. And I would be surprised if Worcestershire risk much more than that.

Of more interest to me at present is the identity of Glamorgan's skipper next season. From what I can gather from new cricket manager Matthew Maynard's public pronouncements there does not seem to be a lot of confidence in current skipper David Hemp. But if Hemp does not do it, then who? There is no obvious candidate in the ranks. Nottinghamshire's Jason Gallian was approached but has gone to Essex. Stuart Law is not happy at Lancashire and might be a possibility. More likely is that either Matthew Elliott or Maher will return as a Kolpak or EU player (Maher has an Irish passport) and captain the side.