Despite Gloucestershire winning six of their eight matches through August to book a place in the One-Day Cup quarter-finals, Matthews said it had been a “difficult” month for the county with the County Championship on pause while The Hundred takes place.
Gloucestershire have hosted only three games in Bristol – with one of their home matches against Derbyshire taking place in Cheltenham during the annual cricket festival.
“It’s a difficult month for anybody who’s not a Hundred host in that there’s not an awful lot of cricket in what has historically been a massive month for cricket,” Smith told BBC Points West.
“When I was a boy [there was] Championship cricket right the way across August, you’d be able to see cricket on any day of the week.
“Here at Bristol, we’ve got three days of cricket in August which isn’t great really – [and] we played one of the games at Cheltenham.”
That being said, Matthews reiterated a message out of the club earlier this season that if The Hundred was to expand in the future, Gloucestershire wants to be included in the conversation.
“That remains an important part of our strategy,” he said.
