Heh – relatively early mornings for me, yesterday and today. cricket was on !
I managed to emerge yesterday at around 8.30 ish and was out of bed and into slumber position on the sofa today before 8am. That’s before I get up for work in the week ! Shame the cricket wasn’t really worth watching at that point. I even turned it over to the South Africa v Aussie game for a while.
India decided to make it interesting towards the end though, as they tried going for the win. About 200 runs to get off 25 overs and it actually looked at one point as if it might reach the nightmare condition of them having a chance for them. Not to be though, the fading light brought an early close. I think that had something to do with Harbhajan Singh of India having 2 of his 3 stumps removed from the ground by a 90mph ball from Steve Harmison that he probably never saw.
Good result for England though. Because they were missing their Captain, Vice Captain and one of their 4 fast bowlers, they went into this match very short on experience. They had no less than 3 players making their debuts … However, they avoided defeat quite handily and put India under pressure. Even game, although the pitch stopped either side having a good chance for the win.
Oh yeah – England bowler Matthew Hoggard is going to get some ribbing from the people looking after the England team … He’s just been shown riding around the outfield on the 125cc motorbike that he received as part of his Man of the Match award.