It’s a Tie!
Once I’d realised late that last night’s game had already started I stayed up to watch a bit of the fourth ODI and it was pretty good watching. Cook and The Colonel had racked up 150 and I went to sleep feeling positive, expecting to wake up and hear we’d won the game! The track was obviously a bit of a road though, so I knew that it wasn’t in the bag. In the end, I was very pleased to hear that we’d scored 340 - I wouldn’t have thought that has happened for a while - but I didn’t expect to hear it had been a tie!
From the reports, it sounds like we dragged it back well after looking dead and buried – and if I have the chance to watch the highlights this evening it will be good. However, I could be chucking my laptop out of the window when they’re on as I think it died last night..
With the past two performances being decent, I’d like to know what the hell went on in the those first two games. How can a team go from being so inept to putting up a real challenge? Is it something the coach is doing, or is it that the players are actually taking on some responsibility for the failings of the earlier games, or something else? Hopefully it is a matter of a number of known factors, for if it just a case of “I don’t know” how does that actually help us in the future?
P.S February is too early to start nets – I’m still in a bit of pain from Sunday and its now Wednesday! Maybe it was from when I looked down the net to see a cricket ball hurtling quickly towards my head. Cue thinking “I can catch this” to “It’ll hit the net and break my finger” to “Actually, its quite close now, I better do something!!”. So I did what any self respecting cricketer would do having not caught a cricket ball all winter – I dived to the floor like a girl!
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