People, do I detect insufficient excitement about the Windies - Aus test series?
You moaned and moaned and MOANED about the IPL, now you're soon going to be spoilt for choice for tests (making it possible in England to watch test cricket on TV for 12 hours a day, and damnit that's how I'm going to spend my weekend) and yet all I see is unhappiness. Don't say you're only interested in the Ashes?! You're worse than The English!
Here is my first XI of reasons to tune into this test series.
1. There is no Hayden, at the moment. Now that's got to be worth something.
2. No Hogg. Come on, people, you can now live a life without fear of turning on your TV and seeing his tongue.
3. The Windies have such great names, they are a headline-writer's dreams. I look forward to seeing at least some if not all of the following:Jaggernauth drives/motors through AustraliaDJ Sammy is boy of summer, finds it hard to believe he's in heavenParchment rewrites record booksFidel imposes autocratic rule on the AussiesThe batsman's Ramdin, the bowler's [o noes, the analogy falls short. Maybe Bollinger. That joke worked best with Sidebottom]. <p align="justify">4. There's some rather good bling on display, in particular Dwayne Bravo, who has a necklace chunkier than any jewellery I own and I have some serious jewellery.
<p align="justify">5. Cricket-wise, there's something for everyone: Ricky Ponting appears to have found his mojo, King Probot needs to adjust his settings because he's currently stuck on slow-and-scratchy, there's a young spinner (Jaggernauth) on debut, and a less young spinner (MacGill) on the very opposite of a debut.
<p align="justify">6. Still on the cricket - a nightwatchman? for Australia? What the? If this has happened, what the hell else might happen?
<p align="justify">7. There are some so-shameless-they're-great adverts for coffee estates.
<p align="justify">8. The commentators are saying things such as this: "There's no such thing as half a chance. It's like being half pregnant".
<p align="justify">9. You can compare the respective hair jobs of Bollinger and Ponting.
<p align="justify">10. There's a man in the crowd who's upper body is covered with paint only, like Tendulkar's superfan, except it appears to be the Windies one-day shirt, portrayed in the medium of body paint. I'm hoping he'll be back every day - he's one helluva dancer.
<p align="justify">11. It's in the Caribbean, so you have a pretext for a Caribbean-themed party. I had one for the World Cup last year. Rice and beans, lager, jerk chicken, Mount Gay Barbados Rum. BUT! It's Australia, so you can barbecue the jerk chicken.
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