When I said after day one that I had been dreading "total awfulness", I specifically meant, according to my notes, "toothless bowling, England spanking out boundaries". Should I have spelled that out and thus averted the dread's fulfillment?
I have been in bed with a cold the last couple of days and have a dim enough view of the world as it is. Shane Watson told Quentin Hull he thought Australia's bowling performance was "solid". Well, it was certainly back-to-back something. From my imperious position propped up among the pillows that something was "boring". Especially since it was all a rerun of the previous day with the two sides changing places, up to and including dropped outfield catches from hapless brown-haired fast bowlers. Is it Mitch or the pitch?
Play up young men! Amuse me! And so to bed.
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Evening Batsy. As an after-dinner pick-me-up I'd recommend Nassar Hussain dropping a chair on David Gower's foot. 16 years of English failure right there in one plummy yelp.
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Bat on,
Matt
Play up old men! Well done. I am amused. B.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this batch of Australian young men could amuse you in bed or anywhere else. (The Haus would at least put in a bit of effort, but overall a total lack of imagination.) My optimism of day three now seems so stupid.
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Deeply Depressed of Brunswick
I am also deeply depressed. At least batting collapses are over quickly. Bowing funks on the other hand... B.
ReplyDeleteNice straight bat to my attempted salaciousness, Batsy!
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It's not Oh Errol round here you know!
ReplyDeleteOK, my real first thought to your comment was "Oh I don't know about that". Then the attempt to work out what the analogy in the bedroom was to a performance both ineffective and unending... well, as I said, one prefers the batting collapse.
A perfectly executed front-foot defensive shot to my bit of speculative rubbish outside the off-stump. Bravo!
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