Sellsy's Cricketing Thoughts

Tuesday 5^th May

Go on holiday for a week, and come back to cricketing turmoil.

England lose the last Test in the Caribbean and therefore tie the series, and as for Somerset, well less said the better.

Before I start, I would like to see thank you to Jonathan Trott for being a rock in the England middle order throughout his international career, with the highlight being winning the Ashes down under. Great servant Jonathan, now I expect you’ll score a hatful of runs for Warwickshire.

So firstly, onto England, oh dear, something I predicted back in March; the statement from Colin Graves about the West Indies being mediocre has come back to bite Graves on the backside. Will he have his enquiry now before the hectic summer / winter schedule, which includes the Ashes.

Well he better hurry up, the Test matches with the Kiwis will be here soon. Somehow appointing Andrew Strauss as the new Director of Cricket may not be the answer. The answer is getting the selection right otherwise this summer could get embarrassing. If they (ECB) say England are rebuilding, well that won’t sit with a number of critics as they said that after the last drubbing down under.

Now onto Somerset, well I hate to say I told you so, but they are struggling, at the time of writing Worcestershire were going straight through the Somerset batting, thus making it three loses in their opening three County Championship games, I just hope they do enough to stay up!

That’s enough about England and Somerset for now, and even for the summer. It is all about Over Stowey over the next four months and their adventures in the West Somerset League. But please don’t forget that I told you so about the predicament of both England and Somerset, I just hope they prove me wrong. PLease prove me wrong.

Ok, birthday celebration time, a day early I know. Look out next week for Over Stowey’s Adventures in the West Somerset League.