Well they only went and bloody won.

England are very much in command in the first test (game) of the Ashes series.

Remiss of me I know but who is a match up between England and Oz called the Ashes.  It like quite a lot of things in cricket goes back a very long way...

And that was it I was struck down by a lurgy reminiscent of many a cricketing tourist to the culinary delights of Bombay or Delhi.

Incapacitated a bit like Mitchell Johnson throughout the whole of the first game.

I do promise to do better with the second match, but as the first two days are to be spent at the Open golf from St Andrews, contact may be limited.

Apologies dear readers...