Match called off due
to rain
Proper rain too, none of your drizzly shit. It was dark by 11am.
One can only speculate as to how this match would have
turned out had it not been for the entirely predictable downpour that followed
two weeks of glorious sunshine and ruined the first day of the cricket season,
but since Withers failed to attend any of the pre-season net sessions at least
the Farley Hill batsmen were spared the looping head-high full tosses that would
surely have been flung from his cold rusty shoulder. Who knows what we may have missed? An Eagle ton?
A Ken Stewart hatrick? Dip
getting caught at mid-on? For now we
must take solace in the fact that we have another Farley Hill fixture scheduled
for June and move on to Mortimer West End on Sunday.
I must confess I wasn’t entirely ready for the season to
start anyway; I tried to stop thinking about cricket after a very strange winter.
Now, in the aftermath, England are
attempting to solve the problems that caused their crushing Ashes defeat by a)
sacking their top run-scorer, and b) re-hiring the coach with the lowest win
percentage of any England coach this century.
This will definitely work.
We might never know the full details of why Pietersen has
been discarded, but by all accounts it seems to be based on the fact that he’s
an arsehole. This was overlooked, of
course, when he scored loads of runs - maybe the run scoring made him less of
an arsehole to be around, we just don’t know.
Evidently what happened in Australia was that he dipped below some
critical threshold of run:arsehole ratio and the selectors were forced to act.
It’s all rather farcical and confusing but it also leaves me
fearful for the future of RUASCC. If we
were suddenly forced to drop all the arseholes who don’t score enough runs we’d
be woefully short of players – basically just Zia running around in a field.
Assuming we don’t start applying this rigorous selection
policy I’ll be back with another report after the weekend.
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