Inningses

[lemonbella]

I've decided to post more about cricket.

I appreciate that there is only one person on my friends list who will be vaguely interested, and then she has usually spent five days being subjected to my thoughts via text message. However, I've never done anything in order to be popular, and I am constantly frustrated by my inability to remember specific test matches, despite knowing that I've avidly watched every damn minute. Also, it should help to ensure I don't repeat the egregious mistake which led to me ignoring at least a year and a half of Geraint's test career.



In which…

England batted tremendously and then fielded horrifically, and the game petered out into a draw. Flintoff was as dull as Alec Stewart in his field placings.

Hoggard took his two hundredth wicket and then somehow resisted beating the slip catchers to death with his shoe.

Nasser Hussain revealed a more than heterosexual interest in Matthew Hoggard's hair cut.

Geraint took his hundredth test dismissal and TMS managed to refrain from criticising him for a full seven minutes.

Mahalar Jayawardene batted superbly and officially registered on my list of attractive cricketers.

Kevin Pietersen used the word inningses thus providing me with endless hours of amusement.

This was the test that brought us GeraintCam.

England 551-6 dec
Sri Lanka 192
Sri Lanka (following on) 537-9
bad light stopped play

Match Drawn


Yes, when I said I would be posting about cricket I didn’t actually mean insightful commentary. I meant thinly veiled gay sex references and an unhealthy appreciation for Geraint Jones.

Comments

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

Inningses...

Whenever I'm feeling low I'm going to think of inningses, and possibly of Hoggard beating Andrew Strauss to death with a shoe. Cook can open instead and Bell can have his spot back.

If you ever need to reconstruct your Ashes watching experience, then I do still have the series of progressively more frantic text messages on my phone.

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

I still remember fondly the frantic test match watching fringedweller and I were witness to last year.

I'm sure there was shushing involved. Also discussion of the Space mice.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Geraint was playing then..... Just be grateful they didn't have GeraintCam.

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

I still can't believe Channel Four have deprived us of three years of GeraintCam.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

It's just an obvious development...

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

Also, I firmly refute the suggestion that any level of interest in Geraint Jones could be referred to as 'unhealthy'.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point. It's a very healthy pursuit, until I walk past him in the street one day and get arrested for stroking his hair.

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

If you're goingto have a criminal record "Unlawfully Stroking The England Keeper" may as well be it.

You'll have to write it on job applications.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

And, I figure he's quite used to people stroking his hair, so maybe he won't mind.

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

Ususally by people a little taller

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

Also I completely refute theidea that any interest in Geraint could be described as 'unhealthy'

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

So much so you had to post it twice?

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

Yes. That and LJ told me it hadn't posted the first time.

But it's worth saying twice.