Sam – I saw this and thought of you. Then I thought of something else almost immediately and forgot to pass it on. Soz:
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Why do you want idyllic calm when you’ll be able to get to the nation’s capital so much more quickly?

Don’t know if you’ve heard, but they have restaurants and theatre in London. Restaurants are like takeaways where you get to sit down on the premises and theatre is a type of live television, apparently.

125th aniversary of the club this year. Not bad that. 125 years of idyllic calm in gentle Cheshire countryside. It will be quite a shame when HS2 ploughs straight through the field next door.

We’re reading the less obvious part of it as a geographic reference.

I actually think we should nix bilateral t20 altogether and have a world t20 every year. Two-match series are crap, best players not playing is crap. Make it a breezy knockout comp on a regular basis to give it some weight.

It’d be along with the Champion’s league, straight after in the same host nation. That way you don’t have to worry about mobilising your team for one knockout game, they’re already there.

It’ll never happen, so I am safe from testing.

I think Bert’s very sensible sequencing suggestion; ODIS, then Tests, then IT20s resolves your weather problem, Howe.

Indeed, the most sensible thing to have at this time of year is the T20s, as the shorter match allows a larger time window during which the whole match might be played if there is a rain delay. Wouldn’t have helped at Leeds last week, mind.

Hope you get a game to see today, Sam, while the rest of us slave away over hot keyboards or in front of autumnally-irritable clients.

Bert your analogy fails to consider the wanker trend for degustation. Look at the administrators around the world, do they look like the type to enjoy a traditional meal or the type to spend exorbitant amounts of money (probably other peoples money) eating a teaspoon sized serving of raw prawn seasoned with wheatgrass?

Ashley Giles. All I love and all I despise in cricket combined into one name (KC might understand that, sorry if it makes no sense to anyone else).

It was good practice for him, scampering through for the final runs in a tight match. If the ODI series had followed the tests, he might not have been able to make it at Trent Bridge. That’s what all this tinkering does, ruins everything.

Looking forward to the match report Sam.

I’ve always liked the idea of a live match report, but I’m not sure how it could work.

Twitter. I’ve worked it out.