Here at Trent Bridge we are proud to welcome members of the British Army for today’s game. Around 12 members of 62 Works Group, The Royal Engineers came to see England v New Zealand, some seeing their first live game today, and during the interval we had the chance to find out more about them.

Having returned from their latest tour of Afghanistan only last week, 62 Group were based in Helmand Province where they had been stationed since 11 November and working on Infrastructure Development and Capacity Building Projects in support of the local population and provincial ministries. In additional the Group have also been heavily involved in long term construction projects in support of the Afghan National Army  in Kabul.

It hasn’t been the warmest of summer days and, being used to temperatures in excess of 35 degrees the lads said that whilst it was great to be home it was still taking them some time to get accustomed to the conditions.

We were able to ask a few more questions about being in Afghanistan and, critically, whether or not those based out there had much time to play cricket?

“Unfortunately not. We were too busy to play,” was the response, however there was a degree of comfort in the fact that the servicemen were able to watch England on satellite TV.