Hooray, hooray the Ashes are being played again. Sadly they are being played in Australia, but like all good England supporters I predict that we will retain them, which as we haven’t won on Australian soil for 17 years is no easy prospect.
I wanted to be up for the morning session of the first day, so I decided to hit the sack early and wake up in time for the midnight start. This didn’t happen as I would have liked as I couldn’t actually get to sleep due to late night text messages and a housemate with what I think is Bronchitis.
So I got up at midnight, to watch the masterful 3 balls faced by Captain Andrew Strauss, and Jonathan trot not achieving much more than a bit of ploughing outside of the crease. When I went to bed again at 2 am, KP and Alistair Cook were doing alright. When I got up again at 7am, we had a bit of a collapse in the late-middle order, with only Ian 2The Flamethrower of Eternal Justice” Bell putting up any meaningful resistance, but then getting himself out to a ball that he shouldn’t have played.
Anyway, Australia are just edging it at the moment, but I still think that England can win this test. We have the better bowling attack and I think this is where the match will be won. Apart from Peter “Very Punchable Face” Siddle the Aussie bowlers didn’t really look like that much of a threat.
As for staying up until 2am, I am glad that I did, it’s not very often that a Test Series causes this much excitement. Besides if I wanted to watch the highlights programmes I would still be up until 11, so what’s an extra 3 hours between friends. Plus I do like the live text commentary. Where else would you get a man breaking up with his girlfriend just so he can watch the game.
Rantings from a bored mind. 