This year Diamonds have played at some of the finest venues in the country in both the regional competitions and for many of the players during The Hundred, as well as entertaining increasing volumes of supporters. This off-season has been no different, although they have kept the exit path relatively lightly-trodden in limiting playing departures to the aforementioned Lolohea, Krisnan Inu to the French Elite 1 championship, Pauli Pauli to the Betfred Championship and the retirement of Kevin Brown, who brings to an end a wonderful 17-year and 350-plus game career. "Hopefully, I'm safe because I don't want to stay in quarantine any more. It's not a lot of fun. Five of Europe's winning team from Gleneagles retained their places in their side, with three players returning for the first time since 2017 and four rookies also in Matthew's contingent.