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Two Winters and One Summer of English Cricket and Continued Adventures
Swinebag:
Lets hope you get to see more than 10 balls Don
In fact lets hope you got in the ground in time to see the 10 balls
Dangerous outfield??????? you have got to be kidding me!!!
Mikeyboy9361:
I don"t like crickeeet aah , I lurve eet!!
Hope you get some cricket tomorrow! What a shambles. Get to the old Rec ground. :-\
Different version of Beach cricket!
Logie66:
The day was looking good at one point ! The sun was out and we were on our way to the ground. Arriving, all looked well, the Stadium actually looked impressive from the outside, even from inside there was no real telling of what was to occur.
The majority of people in the queues were from England, a couple from Wales ;D and everyone was in good spirits and looking forward to the cricket. The umpires walked out on time, followed by the West Indian team and the England openers, Strauss and Cook. Jerome Taylor was opening the bowling, he kicked off from his starting point and ran through without bowling the ball, no one really thought this would be significant at this point. So the first ball was bowled and Strauss glanced it to the legside for two runs, a good start !
Taylor completed the over and England were 5 without loss, Edwards then commenced the second over from the North Stand End, he had only bowled two balls and the heavens opened, the players ran from the field and the covers were on the wicket before the rain hit the ground, at least the umpires appeared to have pre-empted the rain and made a good decision !!!
A delay of about 40 minutes before play recommenced, Edwards ran in a few times but only delivered the ball twice, so we had seen 10 deliveries and the umpires started to talk as Edwards pulled up again on his run up. This debate seemed to go on for about 20-25 minutes, or seemed to anyway and eventually they walked off.
Rumours were passing round the stand, the test match was abandoned, a few people were looking shocked, very embarrassing for West Indies Cricket. No information was coming over the PA system so I went for a walk round the ground. Managed to ask Sir Ian Botham a question when he was walking of the pitch and got this quote.
"Absolute shambles, outfield was unfit yesterday, is unfit today and won"t be fit, no more cricket will be played here" !!
Then realised it was Friday 13th, figures !!!
So, still no news, lots of rumours abound that they are trying to move the match but can"t see that myself, too much to do to make that happen.
Only one thing left for it today, the beach and a few Wadadli ;D
Mikeyboy9361:
Sky sports are saying there is no way they are going to be able to play on that ground for the next day or two or three.
So Beach, Beer and poker with the England boys? I played against Freddie when he was a teenager, he was playing for St Annes in the Northern league, I was playing for Netherfield, he didn"t get many that day,but we all knew he would go far.
duke3016:
Unlucky for the day -- not a great cricket fan myelf - but loving this blog
More pictures and name dropping please ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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