Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
Cricket Web - Features: Red Crystal Balls
"The English season is two weeks old. The sun is shining, I've got myself a sunburn and a seam mark across my left instep, and Ian Bell has made a regulation century on a featherbed at Taunton. Three things that any soothsayer worth their salt would expect to find within their "Captain Obvious" section, right next to the visions of Chris Martin losing his middle stump.
So, with the sound of birdsong still fresh in the evening air, and the hope of runs and wickets yet to be extinguished by the reality of my woefully inadequate forward press or Bryce McGain-like control, I've taken the time to consult my own (red) crystal balls and gaze forward into the next five months of deliveries, drives and Duckworth/Lewis..."
"The English season is two weeks old. The sun is shining, I've got myself a sunburn and a seam mark across my left instep, and Ian Bell has made a regulation century on a featherbed at Taunton. Three things that any soothsayer worth their salt would expect to find within their "Captain Obvious" section, right next to the visions of Chris Martin losing his middle stump.
So, with the sound of birdsong still fresh in the evening air, and the hope of runs and wickets yet to be extinguished by the reality of my woefully inadequate forward press or Bryce McGain-like control, I've taken the time to consult my own (red) crystal balls and gaze forward into the next five months of deliveries, drives and Duckworth/Lewis..."