The oracle has spoken........


The toss turned the right side up and Eng-er-land are batting! Collingwood comes into the side at the best possible time and the test match of the century is well and truly on it's way. A day to be remembered for sporting delight as Andre Agassi recovered to the kind of victory only he can muster up. After losing 3-6, 3-6 he recovered to 6-3, 6-3 before taking the final set 7-6. Why I like aging have-beens is a mystery to me. To quote Jean Kerr "I am hopeful about the past and nostalgic about the future".

The oracle says 450-500! We are approaching lunch and England has 109/3. Trescothic's promise of the century yet unfulfilled. Bell didn't ring yet again. Vaughn is perhaps too confident after his 160+. Maybe Straus could do it. Upto Messrs. KP, Flintoff, Collingwood and Jones.

For once the Beckham boys escape the scythes of the press as no self respecting sports journalist can be bothered with their 1-0 loss to Northern Ireland. Shaun-Wright squandered so many chances that it got boring. Sometimes I wonder if Sven is really the right person for the job. He's a very level-headed guy and with the cult idols that are the England football team he does a pretty decent job. But England haven't done anything substantial for an ice-age and maybe it's time for change.

(The self-contradiction - Sven vs Agassi - is quite evident!)

apologies to the non-cricketers reading this. I still treat the blog as a diary more than anything else and it's virtually impossible to talk about much else at the moment. (Found out that some people actually read my blog and for that I am grateful).