foam rollers are godly.

I think i should point out NZ’s own Monty P, Jeetan P. He plays the same role as Monty but with far less favourable results. And Jeets’ test average of 45 confirms just this.

You cant bowl fast on salad. FACT.
If Siddle had a steak at lunch he wouldn’t have looked so buggered at stumps and may have got the extra couple of wickets.

Yup, a well-known portmanteau word meaning “politically silly”. Well-known round these parts anyway.

Strange how the smart phone leaps in to assume that tea bags must be tear gas, but leaves such a dog’s breakfast of a mistyping to public scrutiny and derision.

Or to put it another way, SA finally have their own Johannesburg.

ABDV – the poor man’s Jack Russell. While I enjoyed Du Plessis’ cameo it was hardly Athertonian.

Poliricslly?

Still, when we left Cairo (& tear gas) behind yesterday the match was still poised. On arrival in Hurgada, broadband aplenty forms part of the deal & my phone woke up to the news that England had set up a winning position.

Thanks to the test match sofa folks, we got to hear the denouement in all its glory while sipping tea on our sun terrace this morning.

FYI, no pyramid teabags to be found in the land of those enormous four-sided erections.

But plenty of Indian staff in the hotels utterly baffled that Monty didn’t play in Ahmedabad.

Anyway, greetings to you all from both of us in gloriously sunny but poliricslly somewhat turbulent Egypt!!

Standards for Monty do seem to be lofty. Galle was the only Test he’s played this year in which he didn’t take a five-for and he was promptly dropped.