In the 2009 season we didn’t lose a single match to the weather - quite remarkable considering it wasn’t exactly the BBQ summer predicted. No such luck in 2010 as the second scheduled fixture was rained off following several days of late-April nastiness. On these occasions you hope for an early cancellation so there’s enough time to make other plans for the day – plans that sadly don’t involve tea. On Sunday morning, after receiving the expected confirmation, I successfully made and implemented plans to spend the rest of the day watching snooker. There’s something quite mesmerising about snooker: the drama, the tension, the fact that nobody (except possibly John Higgins) knows who the eventual winner will be.
Unfortunately, this situation rendered me quite unable to improve on my impressive statistics of no runs and no wickets in 2010. But looking on the bright side, it has allowed us to preserve our unbeaten start to the season which, judging by the thrashing handed to us in Blewbury last year, would have been unlikely had the game gone ahead. I’m aware that doesn’t sound terribly optimistic. It is, after all, entirely possible that we could have gone out there, bowled the home side out for 100 and chased it down with eight wickets and 15 overs to spare.
In the real world, Ireland probably didn’t fancy their chances going into the match with England last night, especially as the most talented Irish cricketer (Morgan) was batting at number five for the other team. They restricted England to 120-8 with a fielding performance full of energy and discipline, but they were prevented from sealing the win by the same thing that prevented us from completing our fictitious victory over Blewbury: rain.
All of which teaches us absolutely nothing really, except that one can only hope the weather is kind to us on Saturday so I have a real match and a real performance to write about.
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