It’s a good job that Scott Tremain isn’t the type to get carried away too easily otherwise he might think that this cricket captaincy malarkey is a piece of cake.

The 26-year-old is in his first season as Dumbleton skipper and their West of England Gloucestershire Division campaign couldn’t have got off to a better start.

After skittling home side Cirencester, who won the toss, for 58 they knocked off the runs in 9.2 overs with both openers still at the crease. One of them was Tremain – “I nurdled it round for my 13,” he chuckled – as the visitors collected 22 points to take the early initiative in the division.

“Yes, it was nice to have a first game like that but I’m a realist and we’ve got a long hard season ahead if we are to achieve what we want to this season,” Tremain said.

So what is the target?

“We want to win the division, it’s quite simple,” he said. “We finished second last season, first the season before when the league was restructured and second the year before that. Everything is focused on winning the league.

“We’re very fortunate that the club are in a really good place at the moment.

“We’ve just started a ladies’ side and they’ve already got 30 players on the books and we’ve got 170 youngsters in our youth set-up.

“We’ve got A, B and C sides in nearly all our age group and a lot of the boys and girls have been selected for county squads.

“What we’ve got to do is make sure that the senior sides match the expectations of these youngsters in terms of the level of cricket we are playing because they are good.”

If Dumbleton do win promotion into Premier Two Glos/Wilts next season – and they have been boosted this season by the arrival of overseas seam bowling all-rounder Daniel Cranitch – they will need their skipper to weigh in with his share of runs.

He is in his third season at the club and said: “I like to build an innings. I look to bat the full 50 overs and I’m certainly not the all guns blazing type of batsman.

“We’re very lucky because we bat all the way down to 11 and we’ve got some good hitters down the order.

“I’m not going to change my game just because I’m captain. I’m going to approach batting the same way as I have always done and hopefully lead by example.”

So what type of captain is he?

“I think I’m an attacking captain and a defensive captain at times,” Tremain said. “I’m certainly not afraid to attack but it depends on the game situation.

“You can be attacking even if you’ve set a defensive field because you are trying to prevent boundaries and in turn putting pressure on the batsmen.”

Cricket is a big part of Tremain’s life because he is a growth development officer with the Gloucestershire Cricket Board with a remit to broaden the game’s appeal.

Born and raised in Devon – he used to captain Bridestowe Cricket Club – he is in his third year working for the GCB after starting out as a community coach.

He got to know Cheltenham and the surrounding area when he was a student at the University of Gloucestershire. He liked what he saw and in particular he likes playing cricket at Dumbleton.

“It’s a gorgeous ground,” he said. “It really is a great place to play cricket. And the bonus for me is that it’s a really good club.

“It offers something for everyone. There’s serious cricket on Saturdays and social cricket on Sundays. We play midweek cricket, there’s a ladies’ team and the juniors are a big success story.

“We’ve just started the Little Smashers, which is the same as the ECB’s All Stars Cricket and aimed at getting the five to eight-year-olds playing cricket.

“It really is an all-round club.”