Fear not, I’m still here! Here’s more of me talking about cricket…
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11728.html
That’s stumps!
Fear not, I’m still here! Here’s more of me talking about cricket…
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11728.html
That’s stumps!
There’s a major flaw in regard to my cricket blog. It’s that I don’t actually watch much cricket! I don’t have a TV and I certainly don’t have BT Sport or Sky Sports. I don’t spend all my days camped at county cricket grounds either. When I woke up this morning and checked the score of the second Ashes Test, I realised that being a day/night match and a delayed weather interrupted one at that, that if I popped around to my parent’s house I could catch plenty of the action. I gained authorisation from the wife and got in the car (Having got dressed obviously!). I’d missed Cameron Bancroft’s cricket class day one dismissal but saw David Warner’s impatience and necessity to keep scoring cost him his wicket. What the silly little jump was for I don’t know! I then saw Mark Stoneman drop a catch. I like Stoneman’s phlegmatic demeanour but the drop was a shocker and had Usman Khawaja made 150, would Rocky have been ruffled come his turn to bat? Fortunately James Anderson did for Khawaja straight after the interval, courtesy of a smart catch by Hampshire’s James Vince. Then came the moment. I remember watching cricket on TV during my teenage years. I remember Dominic Cork’s knock against West Indies, Ryan Sidebottom being robbed of an LBW against Pakistan and Usman Afzaal celebrating an Ashes fifty as though it were a double hundred. I remember being in a small cabin in Scotland watching Geraint Jones hold ‘that’ catch via a tiny, fuzzy, black and white TV. I’m honoured to say that Craig Overton’s maiden Test wicket, that of Steve Smith clean (Or dirtily?!) bowled in Adelaide will live with me forever. In a world where footballers are yellow carded for celebrating, the unbridled joy on Overton’s face, the reaction of his teammates confirmed that sport is a better place for a show of emotion. Had Anderson or Broad claimed that wicket, England would have been cock-a-hoop but not in the way that they were for the Somerset man. Of course it will never be the same for Overton. You only take your first Test wicket once and he may never take another. Whatever happens in his life though, he will have that moment to share with the grandkids!
Starting XI
Aaron Redmond (Because opening the batting with his dad would be cool!)
Rodney Redmond (Because opening the batting with his son would be cool and he scored a century in his only Test!)
Stuart Carlisle (Captain)
Ben France (Who was born in Brunei!)
Charles Coventry (Wicketkeeper and everybody’s favourite bespectacled one-innings wonder!)
Chris Jordan (Who went to school with Rihanna, which he much prefers people to talk about rather than his cricket!)
Dominic Cork
Anthony Ireland
Jon Holland
Joel Paris
Dwight Washington
12th Man
Ryan Austin
Remaining Squad Members
John Hampshire
Keith Dutch
George Cork (Because his dad’s in the team!)
Phil Newport
Hamilton and Wellington Masakadza but not Shingi!!!
Why their parents didn’t call him Auckland, Christchurch or Tauranga I don’t know!
I know, I know, Chris Jordan at six. Jordan, Cork and Ireland’s all-round abilities between them make them just about acceptable as a six, seven and eight trilogy.
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