Yeah, wouldn't you know it. I'd prefer ANYONE in the Aussie team to have done so except him, the great tosser. This will be enough to keep him around for another bloody twelve months. Ugh.
But yay for the scoreline. Pretty obvious that batting first works for us!
Yeah, I went to bed at about 9.30, because I'm sad like that, and the rain was still around. Still, woke to good news this morning. We *should* make a game of it this time.
Disappointing approach, you lot. I was delighted to see Mad Mickey gave KP a bit of a stir up - looked to be the most exciting thing that happened all day!
I had one of those disjointed moments last night - it just poured all yesterday, and I remember thinking, yeah, if this keeps up, they won't be playing tomorrow. Um - wrong hemisphere?
Funnily enough, my brother just came back from Europe and on the first day back it was 21 degrees, blazing sunshine and blue skies. He felt he hadn't left - only this is our winter. Snce then it's been nothing but wet and cold. I blame him. Or witchcraft.
Got up to see there was a fantastic declaration by Mad Mickey. That's the way to encourage a Test match towards a result! Mind you, the light reading was dodgy - they should have gone off a lot earlier, if they were going to be consistent.
It was a fantastic declaration. Shame he became so negative when England were on the brink of victory.
I'm afraid the umpires have been terrible this series with bad decisions going against both sides. Taking the players off with four overs to play might have been the correct thing to do as per the regs but with such an exciting climax approaching it really was not the right thing for the situation.
Weelll... it was 30 points *darker* than when they took us off for light in Manchester - when we wanted to bat on! The regs are there for fairness, and the only reaosn it got to within four overs was because they'd forgotten to take their light meters out with them! I don't blame Mad Mick getting annoyed - that was pretty poor on the umpires' part, and of course because they delayed so long it seemed so much worse for England, when if they'd done what they should have they'd have been off probably five overs or more before.
But yay for the scoreline. Pretty obvious that batting first works for us!
Reply
I'm currently watching it rain.
Reply
Reply
Reply
I had one of those disjointed moments last night - it just poured all yesterday, and I remember thinking, yeah, if this keeps up, they won't be playing tomorrow. Um - wrong hemisphere?
Reply
Reply
Funnily enough, my brother just came back from Europe and on the first day back it was 21 degrees, blazing sunshine and blue skies. He felt he hadn't left - only this is our winter. Snce then it's been nothing but wet and cold. I blame him. Or witchcraft.
Reply
Reply
Reply
I'm afraid the umpires have been terrible this series with bad decisions going against both sides. Taking the players off with four overs to play might have been the correct thing to do as per the regs but with such an exciting climax approaching it really was not the right thing for the situation.
A brilliant day of cricket nonetheless.
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment