All excitement here, as anyone who knows me will attest, with the first day of the Ashes Test. Not to be slowed down by things like school or work, I was able to follow all the action via Baggygreen on the projector all day. With a cricket day forecast in the classroom, my students did plenty of maths using cricket stats, practised reading lists through quizzes about cricket records, and examined the history of the Ashes (I’m not joking, by the way). The upside was, we got to watch the commentry click over as well as rejoice when Langer made a 50, and Punter made his century.
I’m not sure where they got the on-line commentators from, but they were pure gold… unless you were an English supporter of course! I thought I’d list a few of their completely unbiased observations… I hope they are with us for the whole Ashes series! Oh, and by the way, the image is an unabided look back to my glory days… Newman Cricket, the mecca of world cricket. If only I was famous enough for them to spell my name correctly…
- Harmison to Langer, 1 wide, and it’s wild and woolly, a massive wide taken by first slip. Welcome back to Australia, Steve
- Poor, wayward start from Anderson. Poor, wayward start from England too. They’re rustier than a bag of spanners left out in the winter rain
- Hoggard to Hayden, no run, too wide for Hayden to worry about it, leaves it well alone. Perhaps this is Hoggard’s tactic…
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