If not, England are struggling but Bopara's doing well. I'm meant to be writing PGCE essays but the force is weak in this one. England 224-5, Bopara 97, Broad 16.
Seriously though, TMS is excellent. I dont have Sky at the moment but when I do I end up listening to it instead of watching the Sky pictures. Aggers and Tufnell have provided great comedy today.
I can only take so much self-satisfaction. I much prefer the Guardian's Over-by-Over coverage, and I can occasionally get the odd pun into it (if you're not familiar with OBO, readers, a bloke live blogs the events while 'fielding' (get it) comments from readers. Some become regular contributors, and themes tend to emerge across the course of the day. It's rather addictive. Sometimes they mention the cricket.
This is irrelevant, but a guy called Charles Llewellyn was the first non-white cricketer to play for South Africa (he died in the early 60s). Llewellyn's father was English, but his mother was St Helenean, and so was my mum, and she told me about Llewellyn's heritage when I was a kid. I mention St Helena every chance I get in the hope that history won't, like the UK government, forget the place. That, predictably, is where my interest in cricket ends though.
I just wikied Charles Llewellyn to check my facts, and he was SA's first non-white cricket player. He retired from cricket in 1938. South Africa got its next non-white cricket player (Omar Henry) in 1992.
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I'm struggling through "obligations between individuals and society" in Beowulf or something whilst listening. I enjoy Boycott's rants.
I'd rather write an essay than listen to that boring old wife-beater drone on.
You can write mine for me then, ta.
Seriously though, TMS is excellent. I dont have Sky at the moment but when I do I end up listening to it instead of watching the Sky pictures. Aggers and Tufnell have provided great comedy today.
I can only take so much self-satisfaction. I much prefer the Guardian's Over-by-Over coverage, and I can occasionally get the odd pun into it (if you're not familiar with OBO, readers, a bloke live blogs the events while 'fielding' (get it) comments from readers. Some become regular contributors, and themes tend to emerge across the course of the day. It's rather addictive. Sometimes they mention the cricket.
This is irrelevant, but a guy called Charles Llewellyn was the first non-white cricketer to play for South Africa (he died in the early 60s). Llewellyn's father was English, but his mother was St Helenean, and so was my mum, and she told me about Llewellyn's heritage when I was a kid. I mention St Helena every chance I get in the hope that history won't, like the UK government, forget the place. That, predictably, is where my interest in cricket ends though.
I just wikied Charles Llewellyn to check my facts, and he was SA's first non-white cricket player. He retired from cricket in 1938. South Africa got its next non-white cricket player (Omar Henry) in 1992.
Beam me up somebody.
That's not irrelevant - it's fascinating. Sounds like he was Welsh in some way with that name! When did legal apartheid start? 1950s?
Wiki he say 1948. And his dad could well have been Welsh.
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