Monday 27th October 2014
You may not know it but there is an awful lot of cricket being
played around the world at present, some matches of which are noteworthy:
Australia being beaten by Pakistan in the 1stTest being
played in Dubai. The old foe are getting in a few Test matches before the World
Cup and more importantly before next year’s Ashes series here in England. Mitchell
who?
By the looks of it things are not going to well as they were
well beaten by some 200 runs, shame, it seems that the Aussies cannot play a
straight delivery. With that in mind, I can’t think of any English spinner who
can spin the ball, so with the Aussies unable to play a straight delivery,
surely......let’s leave it at that.
It looks as if the Aussies are trying out a few new players:
a left arm spinner by the name of Steve O’Keefe and a lower order batsman
called Mitchell Marsh. Neither set the world alight on their debuts.
Are the Aussie struggling to find some decent players, or
will these words come back to haunt me in the summer? Nothing like some early
Ashes banter, come on, the 1st Test is only nine months away.
The saddest thing for me which has happened recently is the West
Indies leaving their tour of India early in a dispute about pay. Haven’t the
West Indies done this before?
I believe the financial situation of West Indies cricket is
in some sort of precarious position and now that India have cancelled their
tour to the West Indies in response to the West Indies actions the whole future
of cricket in the Caribbean is in some sort of jeopardy.
Like England, India have a huge worldwide following and I am
pretty sure there would have been sell out crowds in most of the ODI’s and T20
games in the Caribbean. Plus the TV rights which command big bucks, the WICB
stand to lose millions, let alone being sued by the BCCI. The only saving
grace, England are touring there after the World Cup, if that is some sort of
comfort, I don’t know.
Moving on seamlessly, Ireland and Scotland have been down
under preparing for next year’s World Cup by playing against some state sides
in both Australia and New Zealand. Two Somerset players have been playing on
these tours, George Dockrell and Josh Davey, playing for Ireland and Scotland
respectively.
They have done ok. Both have been taking wickets and scoring
runs, something and some players to look out for when the World Cup starts in
February.
England start their World Cup warm up next month when they
travel to Sri Lanka for a host of ODI’s, I think there are seven games in
total. Then in the New Year they travel to Australia for a Triangular Series
against the home country and India. Nothing like difficult warm up games before
a major tournament, hopefully by then they would of realised Ravi Bopara is
rubbish and drop him!
Right, enough of that, time for a Thatchers or two, but
unfortunately, no skittles tonight, will have to wait until Friday, now that
could be scary!
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