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This is what always happens.Boy meets girl.They fall in love.She's pretty.He's a sporting hero.And then Act II begins.He's under pressure.She's sad because people see her 'private' photos.He's embarrassed that he has to deal with her issues.They break up.She's heartbroken and cries.He's relieved and scores a century.The End.
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Once upon a time, in a land far away, where there was no television, no radio, no internet (no NWG? Oh the horror), where Matthew Hoggard was just a glint in his great, great grandfather's eye, where there was no Twenty20, no hawkeye, when life was simpler and no one worried about the end of Big Brother and what was to replace it, where no one had heard of Britney Spears and that was alright.The year was 1877. English cricket was just a baby, all young and sweet and incapable of knowing what it wanted.And then came along
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Cricketers view playing Bangladesh as a good way to up their averages (see Alastair Cook). To spend some time in the middle. To practice playing that shot they've always wanted. To get a tan. To play in an empty stadium. To get some air miles. But not for Kevin. At this precise moment NWG guesses that he would pay a large amount of money for that precious run that meant he missed out on another century.It's just not his day.It's just not his year.When will his luck change? When he loses the ego? When he stops
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NWG is well aware of how troublesome her gender can be.
We moan. We criticise. We demand. We nag.
We sell our stories to magazines when we find out our photos have been leaked for huge amounts of money.
We demand our fiancees to return from tours to reassure us that we still have a meal ticket...whoops, NWG means, a relationship.
We don't mind if this means our country is without their vice-captain. We are more important whilst our looks are still intact and we can fit in to tiny dresses that show a bit too
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The world has gone mad. Officially. No, NWG has not just been to see Alice in Wonderland or taking advice from ex-Welsh rugby players sucking pennies (oh come on, really?). She's talking about England's performance in their warm up game.
Things that are normal:
KP failing to score runs.Trott scoring runs.Bell getting out before making a half century.It's cold.They never show the warm-up games on TV.
Things that are not normal:
Plunkett actually playing a game, he's bowling and everything.Flintoff being a captain on the new sports quiz show.Cook bowling. Yes, that's right. This is what
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