Sellsy's Monday Supplement (SMS)

A tale of two Craig’s, two of Somerset’s Craig’s. Firstly, congratulations must go to Craig Overton who has been selected for the England Lions tour of Australia, but unfortunately for Craig Kieswetter he has been omitted from all of the England squads for which he was originally selected for the tour of New Zealand.

 

I am pretty sure Kiesy will be bitterly disappointed by his omission, however he will be more determined to get his place back, and that can only help Somerset this season. Craig’s county team mate Jos Buttler took his place behind the stumps for the last two ODI’s v India. I hear Jos had mixed emotions taking Craig’s place, but I suppose he can only do what the selectors ask off him.

England have a couple of warm up games in New Zealand before the first of three T20 starting on February 9th, starting, thankfully at 6 in the morning instead of stupid o’clock! But wait until the Test matches start, no doubt it will be a midnight start, so that will be the listening to Test Match Special through the night lying in bed, I may even watch it on my new iphone, but we shall see, bleary eyes at work coming up!

New Zealand cricket is in some sort of turmoil with a disastrous Test series against South Africa, which included being bowled out for just 45 in the first Test. There is a lot of finger pointing going on to say who is to blame for the misfortunes of the Black Caps, I even hear that former New Zealand legend Martin Crowe threatened to burn his NZ cricket shirt in disgust and protest in how things are being run.

I suppose more will come out over the next few weeks while England are over in NZ, but we shall see.

Right, 6.57, time for skittles and a pint or two of Thatchers!