....or maybe not...

Grass needs mowing.   Car needs cleaning.   All kinds of stuff to do.   Yesterday was the same but what happened?   I couldn`t resist turning on the television just to have a quick glance to see how the cricket was going in England`s last match of the test series against India.   And that was that.  

`I`ll just see the end of this over,` I told myself.   Over after over, time after time.   It didn`t happen.   There I sat, captivated once more not only by England`s total domination over the team that until just a few days ago was the number one side in the world, but also enraptured once more by the sheer wonder of cricket.  

It`s a world apart, seemingly immune from the goings on outside the pavilion or beyond the boundary.  At the very highest level, they`re not called test matches for nothing, as ability, determination, character and resiliance are tested to their limits over five days of hard graft.   At the grass roots level where I played, on village greens and assorted sports grounds, there is still much respect for the spirit of the game, for sportsmanship and respectful acknowledgement of the skills of opponents.

In the game currently demanding my attention, India will have to bat all day today and all day tomorrow to save it.   Their main hope is that the English summer weather will intervene to avoid a 4-0 whitewash and make the Indian team and management doubtful of the wisdom of returning home to the sub-continent. 

So I`ll keep watching - I simply can`t resist it.  Even if it does mean that I will have little time to dwell the fortunes of Snopper Street`s footy teams yesterday which saw the Saints win their fourth game on the trot to maintain top spot in the Championship, the Gills storming to a 3-0 win to remain in the promotion places, with only Charlton dropping two points at home against Scunthorpe to deny us the elusive nine points out of nine again.

And even if it means that the grass keeps growing, the car becomes more embarrassing and a host of other things go undone.   For this is the last test match of the summer and it`s not to be missed.  Must go.........