Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Who will rid me of this irritant Yorkshire man
After a hard day of internet equine investment on the races on Saturday, I logged off, settled into the sofa, and flicked the TV on to watch the third Test Match from Perth. The timing could not have been better as Adam Gilchrist proceeded to create a little bit of history by "tonking" the poms to all parts of the WACA in scoring a century off just 57 balls. He just failed to break Viv Richards record of a 56 ball century, but boy was it enjoyable. I know that, as an ex-pom, I shouldn’t delight in an English team getting a good thrashing, but I do make an exception of the England Cricket team.
Following Gilchrist’s performance, Ricky Ponting declared and put the poms in for the second dig, where they lost one wicket before stumps.
I went to bed reasonable content only to be woken at about 2.30am by the THUMP, THUMP, THUMP of music coming from a neighbour’s birthday party over the back fence. How did I know it was a birthday party? Because of the singing of “Happy Birthday to Laurie”, but I don’t know if Laurie’s birthday was on Saturday or Sunday – whichever, it was a bit late at 2.30 in the morning.
To help drown the racket from the party, I turned on the radio and tuned to the BBC World Service. Here, Jonathon Agnew was interviewing the ex-Yorkshire batsman, Geoffrey Boycott, about the Test match in Perth.
Now it should be said that Geoff Boycott was not the most exciting of English batsman. In fact if you look up “boring” in the Oxford English Dictionary, it has a photo of Boycott playing a forward defensive stroke. So, after one of the most memorable days of Test cricket in recent years, what was Geoffrey rabbiting on about? He was saying that the England team had a “cat in hells chance” of saving the match because they didn’t have any batsmen (and the implication was – like me) who could bat for two days. Here’s the problem, Geoff, Adam Gilchrist was batting in front of a full house. If you had been batting for two days, the ground would have been empty. The bloke is way past his use by date.
Note to BBC: please rid me of this irritant Yorkshire man.
Following Gilchrist’s performance, Ricky Ponting declared and put the poms in for the second dig, where they lost one wicket before stumps.
I went to bed reasonable content only to be woken at about 2.30am by the THUMP, THUMP, THUMP of music coming from a neighbour’s birthday party over the back fence. How did I know it was a birthday party? Because of the singing of “Happy Birthday to Laurie”, but I don’t know if Laurie’s birthday was on Saturday or Sunday – whichever, it was a bit late at 2.30 in the morning.
To help drown the racket from the party, I turned on the radio and tuned to the BBC World Service. Here, Jonathon Agnew was interviewing the ex-Yorkshire batsman, Geoffrey Boycott, about the Test match in Perth.
Now it should be said that Geoff Boycott was not the most exciting of English batsman. In fact if you look up “boring” in the Oxford English Dictionary, it has a photo of Boycott playing a forward defensive stroke. So, after one of the most memorable days of Test cricket in recent years, what was Geoffrey rabbiting on about? He was saying that the England team had a “cat in hells chance” of saving the match because they didn’t have any batsmen (and the implication was – like me) who could bat for two days. Here’s the problem, Geoff, Adam Gilchrist was batting in front of a full house. If you had been batting for two days, the ground would have been empty. The bloke is way past his use by date.
Note to BBC: please rid me of this irritant Yorkshire man.
# posted by Brutus : 1:19 PM
