Sometimes you have to take matters into hour own hands.
Mrs Lunge is out all day, I was at a lose end so decided to go to the pub.
I now have TMS in my ears, a copy of When Saturday Comes to read, a pint of Butty Bach and have just polished off a huge pastrami sarny and some roast potatoes. I have a seat in the beer garden, the sun is shining and life is good.
Let’s hope England manage to get some runs on the board.
Hard going for England but I’m enjoying the contest seeing them up against top quick bowlers. Zampa feels like someone you should be able to tonk around the ground but he’s actually pretty tricky also.
I know they haven’t played for ages until they came over here but these last couple of collapses are quite un-Australia-like, more like England teams of old.
I was saying to myself an hour or so ago that we needed the Aussie to have an England-style mid-order collapse. Couldn’t see it happening though. Then in the time it took to put the chimp to bed we’d taken 6 wickets!
Ah well, great game and great summer of cricket. I’ve struggled to get back into football with no crowds but no such issues with cricket – which to me shows which is the better game. Football needs a crowd to give it meaning/narrative.
Morgan gets most things right but I thought going for Rashid for the final over was asking for trouble.
I thought it was the right call; getting it out of the screws on the first ball faced was equally a gamble by Starc and that won it. If he’d not timed it, another wicket, dot ball, and I reckon England would have won. Both sides spun the coin, this time it came up Aussie side up.
Not sure how I / we missed this. Of course I ‘hate’ the Aussies in a sporting sense, but hold them and their nuggetty fighters in the highest respect and none more so that Dean Jones.
Jack Russell was just ridiculous behind the stumps, the only one who comes close is Sarah Taylor.
Listened to a few interviews with Dean Jones, 1 in particular on The Grade Cricketer podcast and he came across as a lovely fella, sad to hear of his demise.
Anyway, no comment on the England women’s victories, some really good cricket being played by them at the moment.
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