A couple of days in cricket land and there seems as though there has been a bit to talk about but I missed it all due to being kinda busy!

We’ve had Vaughan blaming Freddie for the failure of the England team in the world cup in The Guardian, so it was kind of surprising anyone saw it! This was then followed by lots of people shouting Vaughan down, and saying (quite rightly) that you shouldn’t “bag” your own teammates in the press. And finally (for the moment), we’ve had Vaughan saying he was misquoted, and that he didn’t say “Fredalo” which was the word for Freddie and Pedalo incident apparently! At this moment I’d like to insert a comical picture of a said “fredalo”, but my photoshop skills are a bit rubbish, so I’ll let anyone else out there do it and get in touch!

It was all Vaughan’s fault now apparently – he was a rubbish captain and didn’t play very well himself he says. I’ll agree with the second point, but we were never going to get anywhere in the World Cup as we have no idea who should be playing. And anyway that was a couple of months ago now and to be honest, I think everyone has moved on!

Alan Donald has started his five weeks of consultancy with the England team, and I’m looking forward to seeing if he can bring some fresh impetus to Harmy and Plunkett. They aren’t that far off where they need to be at times, but a fresh mind and ideas can only be a good thing. It should be good to have the updates again during the day at work, before coming home to watch the highlights on sky (oh no, my sky box is broken isn’t it!). Channel Five highlights it is then!

Away from the actual playing of cricket, I read a post elsewhere (i’m sorry I can’t remember where it was) about the horrific tv programme that is “Cricket AM“. I completely agree, I think this is about as bad as TV can get. The recipe seemed quite simple: Take super popular, well branded show (soccer am), and replicate for cricket. New sport – check; new presenters – check; new silly features (throwing “wrong-handed” at the stumps) – check. So where did it go wrong. Well it started with the presenters – they are so wooden that I imagine they are being used as stumps somewhere in the London area on a Saturday. The female clearly doesn’t know what she’s doing, and this is the second season of the show! There are big pauses, inane chat and crap questions to the people there. I’m really surprised that sky brought the programme back – Soccer AM, and the “Allsports Show” on a Friday night in the winter, work well, but this is so obviously rubbish I’d rather watch Saturday Kitchen…..

I’ll try and keep up with news in the future so posts don’t seem as jumbled as this was.. at least in my head it was!