How lo can you go?

Woakes should’ve come in for Malan. That would have left us with a 4-9 of Jo-‘Sto-Sto-Mo-Wo-RoJo. Alas.

To-Ro-Jo-No-Slo;

To-Ro-Jo-Kno-So.

🙁

Only way to get Woakes back in?

To-Ro-Jo-Go-Fo-Wo

I don’t/wont miss the beer snakes.

But there is something unseemly to me about this gargantuan device. Perhaps it is the jingoistic legend on its surface. Possibly it is the redundant circular slots that make it seem less than satisfactory to me.

Or maybe it is just its sheer inappropriate enormity…let’s be honest here, who amongst us imagines that the random dude could possibly negotiate the Eric Hollies Stand steps and rows with that payload without losing some or possibly even most of it to “shrinkage” and/or spillage?

I am a big fan of The Device and sincerely hope that Special Correspondent Dad does not get sucked in to some sort of cervisial arms race. The Device might not be supersized, but it is right-sized.

Beer Snakes are still alive and well at Old Trafford, for some reason. I have a friend whose kitchen is heavily populated with cups from Cardiff and Bristol, but Lancashire CCC continue to favour the flimsy stackable design.

The chap at Edgbaston appears to be carrying £12 of merchandise, raising the question of whether his group paid mulitple deposits per person in order to reduce the required frequency of trips to the bar. It also raises the question as to whether bar staff would actually sell 12 beers to an individual, they often have a 4-per-person limit in my experience.

I never thought of it as a money-making exercise. Although the barman didn’t take my deposit and I kept the cup, so I’m up on the deal already.