News Snippets
Severe lack of posting this week - busy-ness finishing off an online cricket shop for a friend and the lack of cricket on tv to get me excited meant not much action here, but seeing as twenty20 time is around the corner expect more to happen now!
Despite my recommendations in my last post about making some changes to my Telegraph Fantasy Cricket Team, I never got round to it and my position is being affected badly because of it. I thought in the end I might as well hold off and make the changes next week once all the twenty20 players have turned up and I can get some specialists into the side!
Speaking of Twenty20, it starts on the 11th June (next weds), and I’m looking forward to seeing some hopefully dry weather and good cricket. Last year’s tournament was decimated by the rain, and the way things have been recently I think we’re going to have to cross our fingers for some good weather. I havn’t had a chance to find a decent preview of the competition yet, no doubt they’ll appear in the weekend papers and I’ll link to one when I find it.
One player who might take Twenty20 by storm this year is Ravi Bopara. He’s in England’s one day squad so he might not play that much for Essex in the competition, but Ravi Bop scored an incredible 201* in the Friends Provident Trophy yesterday in 150 something balls I think it was. Well played Ravi, but you better watch out as that type of form might get you picked for England!
Over the the WIndies, Australia are continuing their good run of Test victories, but not quite as convincingly on the pitch as they used to. Things that have happened over there - ‘Punter’ Ponting recently passed 10,00 runs which is a hell of an achievement, and Stuart MacGill announced his retirement after taking a bit of stick from the WIndies batsmen and realising that he couldn’t continue. He was unlucky in the sense he was born in the Shane Warne era and never had the chance to properly stake his claim, but he was always prone to bowling a long hop an over, but boy he could turn the ball a bloody mile! It’ll be interesting to see the replacement for MacGill, as with the Ashes starting next summer the spinner won’t have that much time to get used to the international scene before taking us on. He’ll be rubbish of course and we’ll claim back the Ashes! Hmm…
Right, I’m off to watch the highlights of us attempt to screw up the first day of the Test Match against NZ. Until next time..
