ahhh..ha ... Mr side-bottom

Ryan Sidebottom... thank you mate.

Well... the man is an inspiration. One would have thought that with the debut he had and the rather unique distinction in the making, (being the only father and son combination to have played only one test , the debut), he would have played out his county career without too much fuss and faded away into the cricket quiz books that sell ever so well in the Indian subcontinent.

I have to apologize to my large (mythical) readership for my elongated absence from this space. I have to make a confession now. One of the reasons i started this blog was, i was hoping to discover if i have the capacity, will etc to write on a consistent basis about the one thing i spend most of my time and energy on.

I have discovered one thing for sure, i am irrationally effected by the performance of a few teams in international cricket and even more effected by the adequateness of the modern game.

For god's sake... that was the worst world cup in the history of world cups, any sport.

I was really hopeful, the eternal optimist in me, that the final would be a great match and we would have something positive to remember cricket world cup 2007. As it turned out... utter farce. I was squirming at the thought of all the kids around the world looking at there dads and mums and begging them to change the channel. It hurt to think of all those people who never watch cricket or have never watched cricket and have tuned in to watch this big thing called a world cup final.

It's very simple, the future of the game has been seriously jeopardised and that joke of a governing body does only what it has always done, blame all and sundry for anything that they think might have gone wrong, which in itself is a big achievement cause, as the showed again they seemed to have watched a completely different world cup from the rest of the world, as they clame it was a "very successful tournament".

Coming back to Mr Sidbottom. Sir you are an inspiration, but i hope you have the courage to realize that your beautiful clame to fame was the possible record that stood for six years, which, if you play another test for England will be lost.

Well after having a very difficult last few months at work i have been forced into a break with a 'dental' problem... this of course means that in between tripping on my anti-biotic s, dealing with pain and sleeping i will get to watch some cricket.
cheers to that.