Sky's coverage is excellent for the most part, but despite tee times at the Irish Open being rejigged into 3 balls and an earlier start today, coverage doesn't start until 12.30, same time the final group tees off.
Given the results they've had in the recent past this is an absolute shitting of the bed by the Argies, England haven't had to do anything other than wait for them to make mistakes then kick the points on offer.
Turned into an absolute tanking. England's 291-6 didn't look too bad a score, but Mitchell (118 no) and Conway (111 no) clubbed the Kiwis to an 8 wicket win with 26 balls to spare.
We had an influx of new members during Covid and it meant a huge increase in the numbers wanting to play in medals and other Saturday competitions. Instead of 3 balls at 8 minute intervals we ran a trial period of 4 balls at 10 minute intervals. It was fine if you were out before 10, you were still generally 4 hours max, but the later you went out the longer it took and if you went out after 12 it was almost guaranteed to be a 5 hour round.
Was up early this morning and caught the end of the second women's semi final. I know things has run later than planned thanks to the protests that took place, but there were huge numbers of empty seats.
Maybe they all fucked off when Keys won the first set 6-0 thinking she was going to canter it, if they had hung around they would have seen Sabalenka come back to win. She had a premature celebration when she thought the game was over when she got to 7 points in the 3rd set tiebreak.