What are you doing at 7pm this evening?

That’s an easy question for Gloucestershire cricket fans to answer, of course, because they’ll be following every ball of the club’s Vitality Blast quarter-final tie against Derbyshire.

The lucky ones will be at the County Ground in Bristol to see if their favourites can get through to T20 finals day at Edgbaston on Saturday 21st September.

Those who can’t be there will be watching nervously on TV or following the scores online as Gloucestershire chase success in a tournament that they have yet to win.

Hatherley and Reddings coach Gareth Dawson is one of the lucky ones because he will be at the game on Saturday to watch Michael Klinger, Andrew Tye and co.

Dawson, who has seen Hatherley win the West of England Premier League Gloucestershire Division title this season, is the brother of Gloucestershire’s head coach Richard Dawson.

Both of them from hail from Yorkshire but Gareth, who also works for the Gloucestershire Cricket Board, has become a big fan of his adopted county.

“They’ve set up an amazing few weeks because as well as the T20 they can win promotion to Division One in the four-day game,” Gareth Dawson said.

“Hopefully they can go all the way in both competitions, it would be great for Gloucestershire and it would be great for cricket in Gloucestershire.

“They’ve won their last four T20 games to earn a home quarter-final and they’ve won their last three country championship games, it’s been fantastic.

“They’re a young, evolving side but they seem to have a very good spirit and are a side that never know when they are beaten.

“They’re always competing and that’s why they’ve won so many close games.”

Dawson is spot on, of course, and it’s fair to say he could lay claim to being one of their most enthusiastic fans.

“When I was on holiday in Portugal, I streamed the T20 Cider Derby against Somerset and also the championship game against Derbyshire,” he laughed. “The way they knocked off those runs against Derbyshire was amazing.”

Gloucestershire’s final three championship games are against Sussex (at Bristol, Tuesday 10th September), Worcestershire (New Road, Monday 16th September) and Northamptonshire (at Bristol, Monday 23rd September).