Whole New Ball Game

What more do you want? That’s pretty much it.
Oh, the squad…here it is then.
Lazy sods. The things we do for you [like copy and paste the squad from the second Test].
Michael Vaughan (capt), Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Matt Prior (wkt), Liam Plunkett, Steve Harmison, Ryan Sidebottom, Monty Panesar.

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[Second Test, Day Four, Headingley: England 570-7dec (Pietersen 226); West Indies 142 & 141 all out - England win by innings and 283 runs]
My cricket team didn’t have a game over the weekend.
It’s a pity because we’d have put up more of a fight than the West Indies who could have a very long […]

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[Second Test, Day Three, Headingley: England 570-7dec (Pietersen 226); West Indies 142 & 22-2] No play due to rain
Don’t sit here reading this. Get down the pub.
Go on.

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It is with great sadness that we report Percy Sonn, the first African president of the International Cricket Council, has died.
He leaves his wife Sandra and three children, a daughter and two sons, plus his mother, six brothers and a sister.
We send our deepest sympathy and best wishes to Mr Sonn’s family and friends.

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[Second Test, Day Two, Headingley: England 570-7dec (Pietersen 226); West Indies 142 & 22-2]
Right then pay attention because this might not happen again for a very long time.
England, yes that’s right England, are on top. And in a rather large way.
West Indies had to follow on after they were skittled out for 146.
Kevin Pietersen decided […]

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[Second Test, Day One, Headingley: England 366-5; Vaughan 103, Pietersen 130no]
Returning England skipper Michael Vaughan scored a comeback hundred as his side rattled up the runs against a very average West Indies.
Despite being out of international action for nine months Vaughan looked as if he had never been away and cruised to his 16th Test […]

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Former India test cricketer Maninder Singh faces drugs charges after being arrested in Delhi with 1.5 grams of cocaine, according to police.
Mr Singh admitted in a preliminary court hearing he had used cocaine for 15 years.
He was granted bail in exchange for paying £600.
He was expecting another two grams of nose candy.
Singh, a left-arm spinner, […]

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Nothing amusing here. Quite the opposite.
News has reached us that ICC president Percy Sonn is critically ill in Cape Town.
It would appear the 57-year-old was to undergo a routine operation but was taken ill shortly before going into hospital.
Our best wishes go to Mr Sonn’s family and friends.

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Ryan Sidebottom is the shock name included in the England team for the second Test with the West Indies.
The wonderfully monikered Nottinghamshire left-arm pie thrower is a surprise inclusion.
Although the Chairman of Selectors, David Graveney, didn’t want to be drawn on whether his selection was simply to make everyone chuckle.
He said, with a straight face, […]

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