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Sad to hear about Richie Benaud. Surely we all remember his wonderful commentary from our yoof.

Speaking of things we remember. Remember when Cook and Trott batted forever. They'll most likely be opening in this Test match.
That's right, TEST match. PROPER cricket.

Nick, remember to remind your son that they wear whites in "proper cricket".

I got excited earlier when I learned a young lady on the DBA team likes cricket. Then she asked what match I'd be watching. Then it turns out she's all excited by this IPL shit.
It's a foot in the door. It's more than anyone else here likes since you all left.


ECB "Director of Cricket". Vaughan. Stewart. Strauss. All publicly said they're up for it. I wonder if they're being thought of by the ECB. I wonder if they'd be any good.
Picking Stewart would be like picking Morgan as ODI captain. Yes, he does do that job for his county, but his county have been shit while he's been doing it so why would it work with England.
I wonder if Nasser Hussein is in the running?


Kevin Pieterson. A daddy hundred against a Uni side. 2000 people turned out to watch that match. 1000 of them left when KP holed out.
A lot of press, and KP himself, started banging on about lots of support. Maybe. Maybe not. But lots of people like watching you bat, Kev. We know that already.
KP in the side for the first test against the Kiwi's? Probably not with Vaughan as Director of Cricket. Perhaps not with Strauss (wanna come play again, you c**t?).

Back to this afternoon. Win the toss. Bat until lunch tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing Ballance play proper cricket again. Just hopefully not for a while. Cook and Trott both could do with loads of runs.