Strewth Sheila

Alright, alright, so I was a little premature in bringing down the curtain on English cricket in this blog the other day. But how was I to know that they’d suddenly remember how to bat? What am I, bloody psychic? So here it is, my grovelling apology: Good work Paul Collingwood, 106 runs, ably backed up by 55 from Straussy and decent knocks from Joyce and Dalrymple took us to 270 for 7. Although we tried to chuck it away with 76 wides in the first two overs of the NZ innings, they managed an Englandesque middle order collapse of their own to hand us a most gratefully received passage to the final against Australia. Even Aussie legend Jeff Thomson is backing our chances: “Finally, England have showed some form.” He said encouragingly. Now don’t cock it up ya losers,… I mean, come on chaps, you can do it!