The Ashes

I'm 2 pints to the good, the sun is shining, and Australia are 96-7 at tea. Happy days :-)

Got to try to keep a clean sheet till stumps now - totally demoralise them :-)

Things have settled down thank goodness. Get to about 550 ahead then have a go at them ?

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I haven't checked.Cricket is quite straightforward really.You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

Three wickets for two runs - a good summer to be an English cricket fan :-)