Ashes 2010/11 - 1st Test: 3rd Day Mid Morning

Slightly caught out by the early start today but fortunately managed to walk in and turn the TV on in time to see Big JA bowl the first ball of the day. Relief was etched on the faces of those present.

Since we're on the subject, some noticable absences. Firstly, chief blogger REA was missing in action while guest blogger PP informed us of his "swinging by Mrs P's". He's still nowhere to be seen, it is assumed that he's jumped on the bad foot to do the good thing!

In other non cricketing news; during a lunchtime all you can eat Chinese meal, TL made the outlandish statement that he picked up the world's largest noodle. Following internet clarification we can confirm that it was not actually the longest noodle in the world. For those of you interested, the longest noodle in the world was recorded at 2,858 metres long. We suspect that TL's noodle was considerably shorter than that.

Anyway on to the cricket, so far the morning has been an unfortunate one for England. First of all, Hussey was given out LBW to Anderson but this decision was later reviewed and turned over. A few overs later, Anderson again appealed for an LBW against Hussey which was not given out, no reviews were available and the decision was not out. From an entirely inpartial standpoint, it was plum!

Other things of note, other than Anderson's dominance over Hussey were that PP did return looking very happy with himself and when questioned as to whether he had had success, he answered with a cheeky grin (that was all we needed!)

Also, Bumble remarks on commentary: "He's all over him like a cheap suit". Here at 76 Cricket we applaud both the sentiment and the average cliche phrase.

REA returns, watches one ball and retires to his bedroom to phone the ol' ball and chain. No-one is surprised.

PP finds the statement: "Mr Swann enjoys a good crack" highly amusing and proceeds to chuckle quietly to himself.

As you may have guessed, "Swann-dogg" as his closer friends call him, has come on to bowl.

Hopefully, carnage will ensure...

Regards,

Chief Sports Writer

MOD