The hundred is largely a pile of shite, but Laurie Evans 67 from 37 balls tonight was a superb innings, especially as the guys at the other end early on kept throwing wickets away.
I remember at the start of the year posting about him scoring 2000 test runs in the calendar year and it did sound a bit absurd, but he is still well on course for it.
I said to the guy I give a lift from work this morning, that if you said to Brentford that you are at home on tv in the first game and you have to pick one of the supposed big guns to play against, they would pick Arsenal every time.
Blair Cowan off for what I assume is a decent payday in Japan, seems to be very highly thought of by the London Irish fans. His was another international career that fizzled out after lots of early promise.
And Jadeja out right away trying to hit Mark Wood into next week, but hits it straight up in the air with Anderson taking the catch. 364 about as good as England could have hope for this morning imo.
2 more run out chances, one the batsman was just in before Hameed's throw from deep was a direct hit. Next one Bairstow missed from 5 or 6 yards away with the batsman yards from safety.
Buttler drops Sharma, diving effort but he got a full glove one it, should have held on to it imo.. Caused a bit of panic though as the two batsmen have a mix up next ball and almost get run out. 355-7
Bob hit an opening round at the Wyndham of 69 to be 1 under par, but with 107 players currently 1 under or better he still has work to do to make the cut.
Interesting read about the differences caddying for a male and a female pro. https://www.golfdigest.com/story/caddie-brian-nilsson-explains-differences-between-men-women-swings-in-pro-golf/amp?__twitter_impression=true
It could certainly be a carrot for smaller nations, given that the ICC do their utmost to keep their world cups as closed shops. Might be more chance that they could take part in an Olympics. Although if the ICC are involved in the organisation of it....