Laughing at Essex, Australia and Surrey, plus discussions about James Tredwell and David Warner.
What exactly is going on at Surrey?
Fresh from a few days of gin-induced hibernation, it’s time to review England’s last couple of performances via the medium of some shiny bullet points.
We wanted to begin this article with a bad pun about the Warner incident, but Michael Vaughan has already used them all.
Claiming a grounded catch just isn’t cricket.
More laughing at Australia this week. Unless you’re Scottish.
England’s top order just can’t catch a break, but this is why all their critics are imbeciles of the highest order.
The ICC Champions Trophy: sponsored by Pepsi and Doritos, Reebok, obviously. Hyundai, Hyundai’s wife, all Hyundai’s wife’s friends, their families, their families’ servants, their families’ servants’ tennis partners and some company they bumped into in the mess the other day called Castrol.
England faced up against Australia for the first of 789 encounters to be played this summer. It weren’t pretty.
The Australian tour of England is off to a predictable start. If it keeps going in this direction this could be a very short lived series to be honest.