Cricket update

We're now two-thirds through the cricket season so thought a quick update would be in order. We've now won seven in a row to sit second on the table (though I've only been around for three of those games with my recent traveling).

It seems as if something strange happens in every game of cricket in Bermuda - something you'd never see anywhere else. Today's was a delayed start by an hour because the pitch was too wet. It hasn't rained here for days so the groundsman watered the pitch yesterday and then forgot to turn the tap off. Not smart.

A couple of weeks ago (I missed this one as I was in NY), the groundsman had just rolled the pitch (with the big steam roller in an earlier blog update) and then the roller conked out. Both teams together could only move it an inch so a truck had to be brought to the ground to tow it off the pitch, resulting in a two hour delay to the start of play. Nowhere but Bermuda would you see things like that!

Today (pictured below) was a fairly non-eventful day for me - faced one ball to finish with 1*, bowled one ball to take a wicket and end the game, dropped a hard catch and took an easy one. So not much action for me in seven hours of play!