Test cricket, how we have missed you.
Cricket without the bling and cheerleaders.
Plus rain, lots and lots of rain.
I obviously won;t be able to watch all of this series, but i do like to report on the first session of the first series.
The 12 people who braved the English weather to see New Zealand collapse would have been happy, firstly because they were at lords watching the cricket, secondly, they didn’t have to watch David Gower trip over his own tongue for an hour.
Just because you are graceful with a bat, does not mean a microphone will elicit the same results.
Redmund went out without a bang, had I been there, I might have been tempted to yell out nice career.
James Anderson followed up Redmund’s wicket by getting How out.
Anderson was caressing the ball up the slope, every time Anderson gets a wicket a coked up metrosexual runs over a pony.
Sidebottom on the other hand was bowling rubbish at the start.
You could say he has been reading his press, but he doesn’t strike me as a big reader.
Ottis Gibson must have had a word though because he resembled himself later in the session
Ross Taylor came in and instantly set about restoring Bangalores run rate.
He made a good 19 off 20, but a pull shot off Broad went straight up in the air.
KP, sporting an eddie munster style do, gave some more comic relief by ducking a catchable cut shot off James Marshall at gully, then looking around surprised that it had even been hit at him.
James Marshall eventually was put down via Broad and Strauss.
Prince Brendan continued to play his sort of cricket, which is beautiful shots interspersed with straight drives over point.
Flynn is a nuggety sort of batsmen, the sort of chap you’d expect to steal your wallet.
He got bowled around his legs, which isn’t the most positive start to your career.
5 wickets down in the first session.
3 zip to England anyone?...
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