It's cricket F(ryan)day...............

....................and it's raining!!!!!!!!!


Is the Durham v Yorkshire curse about to strike again?????? After two seasons of basking in sunshine at this particular T20 match, we look to be returning to the seasons of past, one thing is for sure though, His Royal Ryanness will not be there. Boooohooo!!!!!!

Never mind, Gillespie the Gallant will be, sat in his 'coaches' chair, so that sort of makes up for it.


last night saw former besty home county of Durham in action against Leicestershire Foxes in a T20 match that  was not that exciting I hate to say.  Durham won but were very slow to get off the bowling mark.

I am wondering what is going on at Notts, 'Big Unit' Luke fletcher seems to be in the news a lot, the 26 year old ( yes he is only 26!), had not played a county game and then played a blinding T20 match, only to be loaned out to Surrey for 3 games. Now 'Top man' Mike Newell has said that poor Lukey needs to lose some weight if he wants to play international cricket.

Does this man not know that you should never highlight weight issues to youngsters????? it can cause all sorts of problems. To be honest I think that Luke has things on his mind which may be affecting him in all kinds of ways, he has been injured and now on top of this being told to 'lose weight'.

I personally think he looked a lot more sylph like this season than last.

And as my hypnotherapist told me you should never think of 'losing weight' as if you lose something you want to find it again!!!!!

Come on Luke pull your socks up, breathe  in and lets see you in the England team.

Oh I have just looked out of the window and it appears to have stopped raining, this however still does not fill me with joy as the sky looks grey and miserable.

I have also blagged another day at Headingley in the company of El Presidenti and First Lady of Middlesex CCC. This is due to the first Lady celebrating her birthday, so it will be PARTY TIME!!!!

So I am off to do 7 hours of hard graft ( yeah right!!!) and then i am off up the A1 to jolly old Chester Le street.


#COYT