The Ashes

[caddyman]

My nerves are shattered.

England won the second test by just TWO runs. Both England and Australia opted for the Hollywood countdown finish. I need to lie down for a bit...

Comments

[ellistar.livejournal.com]

ah go on you were lying down for the whole match anyway

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Not true, for a large part of it I was cowering behind the settee...

[grendelchild.livejournal.com]

You and me both...

[kneeshooter]

Bloody cricket. You try living 100m from Edgbaston and see how you like it.

[littleonions.livejournal.com]

I stopped listening after they got Mr Warne out, Ghatany was remarkably calm and even explained why the last man out wasn't really out at all *shuuush*

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Ah, but since we lost people who weren't out, and some stayed in what was, it all evens out in the end.

[thalinoviel.livejournal.com]

I know, I was a quivering wreck and I haven't been into cricket for years.

I think I might be a fan again now, though. Certainly for this Test series.

[rotwang.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me watch it on your telly rather than the cartoon the Tivo was trying to record. It was definitely more nerve-wracking than any five-day game has the right to be!

[pauln.livejournal.com]

I was sat on the edge of mine.

Then on the floor with my head in my hands as another four byes were gifted to two men who've earned the right to not be called "tail-ender" again.

Then jubilation.

Oh, my poor blood pressure.

Cricket? Schmicket.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

What is this strange language you are all speaking? Cricketese? I endured enough pointless sporting activity at school to last me ten lifetimes. I agree with the poor chap who lives too near Edgbaston, overrun by people who seem to enjoy watching paint dry.

Re: Cricket? Schmicket.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Pish posh.

While I agree with you whole-heartedly about the school sport thang, this is something entirely different, and you know not wot where or whit of which you speak. So nyar.

Speak not again of school 'sports'. It brought me out in hives just thinking on it. We had some good natters on thiose long cross country walks, though, as I recall.

hives indeed

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Those many years of being forced to take part in school sports, by those bored, demeaning sadists, have left deep scars. It's all odious, boring, pointless shite. Living in America, where sports fanatics are even more, er, fanatical than in the U.K., hardens my enthusiastic hatred of such pursuits.