Welcome to my first column for the Evening Press.

I hope that over the next few weeks 'Quick Silvers' delivers an interesting insight into a professional cricketer's life.

Before I joined Yorkshire some Press readers may have seen me in action a few years ago at York when I played in the Yorkshire League with Castleford.

I played Yorkshire League cricket when I was 16 and I used to enjoy our games at Clifton Park.

I remember I had Ian Dews hopping about a bit when he was batting. He's now one of Yorkshire's Academy coaches and is doing a great job with the youngsters.

It was when I was at Cas that I collected one of my nicknames. 'Silvers' is self-explanatory, but 'Spoons' is a different story altogther.

I was in the Joe Lumb Under 18 team at the time and we were going to a match by coach. We had a big West Indian chap with us at the time and when he saw a Silver Spoon sugar lorry go past he said 'I don't know about calling you Silverwood, it should be Silver Spoon.'

He was too big to argue with and 'Spoons' has stuck with me ever since.

We are down here in Swansea at the moment playing Glamorgan and things have gone pretty well after the first two days.

I was last here at the St Helen's ground about eight years ago in a second team game and it has not changed much since then.

It's a long way but I had the rare luxury of not having to drive down. My car is having a service at the moment so Michael Lumb, who shares a house in Pudsey with Paul Hutchison, drove me down in one of the club Rover cars. It made a nice change to be in the passenger seat and be driven at leisure.

We usually play a bit of football before matches - Young 'Uns against Old 'Uns. Unfortunately at the age of 26 I qualify for the Old 'Uns these days.

We lost 4-1 but the following morning the top order batsmen took on the lower order, 12th man and coach. It was a bit closer this time but I've worked out that I'm no good as an attacker. I think I'll stick to defence.

David Byas won the toss and opted to bat on a good pitch with the aim of batting all day, but we didn't quite make it and were disappointed to miss out on an extra bonus point but I reckoned 280 was a fairly good score. All the batsmen had to work hard for their runs.

One of our former players, Alex Wharf, bowled really well, particularly after tea, and finished with five wickets - including me. I played my shot a bit early and got caught at mid-on.

I was looking forward to bowling yesterday and I got off to a good start with three wickets early on as the ball was swinging about quite a bit and then came on at the end to finish off the tail.

I got two wickets in two balls and came close to getting a hat-trick but their batsman missed getting a snick to what would have been my hat-trick ball by a whisker.

I went into the Glamorgan game with 19 wickets this season at 21 apiece, but that is now up to 24 at a cost of just under 18.

I was not bowling as well I would like to have done earlier in the season, but it was coming together in the win over Northamptonshire last week when I ended up with seven wickets in the match and have managed to take that form to Swansea.

That's all for now. Speak to you next week.