Memories...

Sunday morning here and I'm reliving some old memories of time spent in Australia. This recounting of experiences has been brought on by the discovery that I can link to the BBC website and listen to the cricket live. Hopefully the BBC will provide this service for the 2007 World Cup coming out of the West Indies.

Here in the USA, there's a distinct lack of interest in cricket, which means no live coverage of any matches. Occasionally Fox SportsWorld will show a one day game (usually some years old); the last one I remember seeing was back from the heydays of Lillee and Thommo. It's probably just as well that the locals aren't interested in cricket, because it would be extremely painful having to try and explain the finer points of the game. Mid off...backward square leg...silly mid off...I can't imagine trying to explain those. Funny, whenever I happen to mention the game, the usual comment goes something like "...oh, it's just like baseball...". I guess it is, both have a bat and a ball and are played outside. At that point the similarity disappears. :-)

So right now the Aussies are batting in the NatWest Challenge one day against England at Lords. It appears that the Aussies might win this one, cruising toward the paltry target of 224 (thanks to Brett Lee's brilliant bowling spell of 5-41, the best one-day bowling figures for an Australian at Lords). If that does occur, the series will be squared.

Ok...back to the coverage, which means time to finish off here.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi.... (if you're an Aussie reading this you'll understand)...if not, then I guess you'll have to read this. :-)