Before
My wife, by way of an early anniversary present, has bought two tickets for us to enjoy a hospitality package at Somerset’s quarter final game against Nottinghamshire on Friday.
The question then becomes, was her shelling out the necessary spondulicks*:
a) a reflection of her undying love for me or
b) an indicator of the proficiency with which I adopted my sad face once I had discovered that I had left it too late to buy cheaper tickets?
I did ask her if the gift should be considered a joint one, thereby negating my need to buy anything in return to express my affection for her. Apparently, though, it should not! On that she was very clear!
Ah well. I suppose I’ll just have to enquire as to what hospitality packages might still be on offer for next weekend at Edgbaston!
I’m sure she’d be thrilled!
*POI she used my debit card!
After
Well we had a splendidly hospitable evening at the county ground watching Somerset beat Nottinghamshire in yesterday’s T20 quarter final.
Highlights for me were:
- The nature of the win – all the most enjoyable games are those where victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat and, whilst it would have made for a less stressful evening if our top order had fired, it was terrific to see Lewis Gregory and Ben Green do the business when it was required. A particularly fine innings by Gregory – a great batsman, a great bowler and a great T20 captain.
- Having Craig ‘Bucket Hands’ Overton fielding just in front of us. As well as his consistently superb opening bowling, he has now taken 20 (TWENTY) catches in the Blast this year! Two of them last night.
- Seeing Tom Abell walk when he edged a ball from Harrison to the wicketkeeper. Perhaps he would have been given out by the umpire anyway but it was nonetheless heartening to see him behaving in the sportsmanlike manner that I have come to expect of Somerset’s red ball captain. And it was all the more honourable given what a precarious position Somerset were in when he was out. Good for you Tom!
Oh, and the company was quite good too! Still apparently willing to put up with me after nearly 32 years of married life – even, it seems, when I’m singing ‘Sweet Caroline’ like the best of them!
And so for all you cricketing Philistines out there, and anybody else who, by severe misfortune, may have allowed said events to pass them by, here’s what you missed.
My advice? Watch on repeat!
Other cricket blogs:
To read ‘Cigarettes, Singles, and Sipping Tea with Ian Botham: Signs of a Well Spent Youth!’, click here
To read ‘Bazball, Bazchess, Bazlife’, click here
To read ‘Lewis Calpaldi – Retired Hurt?’, click here
To read ‘Online criticism: it’s just not cricket’, click here
To read ‘Cricket: It’s All About Good Timing’, click here
To read ‘A Tale of Two Tons’, click here
To read ‘A Somerset Cricket Players Emporium’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Taunt’, click here
To read ‘Scooby Doo and the Mystery of the Deseted Cricket Ground’, click here
To read ‘Brian and Stumpy visit The Repair Shop’, click here
To read ‘A Cricketing Christmas Carol’, click here
To read ‘At Season’s End’, click here
To read ‘A Historic Day’, click here
To read ‘On passing a village cricket club at dusk one late November afternoon’ click here
To read ‘Cricket – through thick and thin’, click here
To read ‘A Song for Brian’, click here
To read ‘I’ve got a little CRICKET list’, click here
To read ‘My love is not a red, red rose , click here
To read ‘Stumpy – a legend reborn’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Tea Kind of a Day’, click here
To read ‘A Day at the Cricket’, click here
To read ‘The Great Cricket Sell Off’, click here
To read ‘How the Grinch stole from county cricket…or at least tried to’. click here
To read ‘How Covid-19 stole the the cricket season’, click here
To read ‘Life in the slow lane’, click here
To read ‘Frodo and the Format of Power’, click here
To read ‘If Only’, click here
To read ‘Eve of the RLODC limericks’ click here
To read ‘It’s coming home…’, click here
To read ‘A Song for Ben Green’, click here
To read ‘Enough Said…’, the last section of which is cricket related, click here
A Jack Leach Trilogy:
To read ‘For when we can’t see why’, click here
To read ‘WWJD – What would Jack Do?’, click here
To read ‘On Playing a Blinder’, click here
To read ‘Coping with Disappointment’, click here
And now a couple of cricket blogs with a theological flavour
To read ‘Somerset CCC – Good for the soul’, click here
To read ‘Longing for the pavilion whilst enjoying a good innings’, click here
Some musings 