It's a boy!

HURRAH!!! At 4.24pm (UK time) the baby arrived, a  bouncing little boy, the whole media world was watching and waiting for the news of his safe arrival.
I am sure that all the excitement of a cricket test win and Le Tour helped to bring on the Duchess's labour! All the excitement so she wanted some herself!.
A wonderful day and wonderful news.

However talking about cricket, Australian fast bowler James Pattinson has been ruled out of the remaining tests due to a stress fracture in his lower back. He is now hoping to regain full fitness for the Australian summer.

Gloucestershire have not been having fun wither with their bowler Jack Taylor being unable to bowl for the remainder of the season after being reported for 'illegal bowling action' on two separate occasions over the last 12 months. He will be allowed to bat and his having his bowling assessed.

The pressure by the media and cricket hacks is mounting on Joe Root, as he is now being touted as the next England captain, for the love of god, let the young man play the game he loves to the best of his ability and lets get this summers cricket out of the way before you start weighing him down with possible future hopes.

I personally know some one who was taken on by a county, labelled as the next county captain and England captain and instead went off the rails and only played cricket by day so that he could go wild at night. The result being that he now no longer has any place in cricket at all. Let Joe Root develop at his own rate.

Chris Froome was making headline news yesterday ( and rightly so). Apart form his monumental win in Le tour, he has shown to be a great cyclists but also a polite and 'humble' young man. Something that some cricketers should take on board me thinks.

A note on Tykes Towers, after a very fraught couple of days the fence has finally been erected, and now I can get on with completing the work in the rest of the extensive grounds of Tykes Towers. That flip for that.


So as I sign off for today, we are all hoping that we get a peep of the new Prince, however if The Duches of Cambridge has any sense she will stay in the hospital for another day.