An ODI defeat for England

As the golden era of King Kevin continues at Trent Bridge today, with England seeking a third consecutive win under Pietersen's captaincy, a colleague asks why today's match hadn't been played yesterday or indeed at any point over the Bank Holiday weekend. Instead we had three days fit for prime slothfulness and no international cricket on the telly to occupy us.

The answers, says the ECB, is because they find it hard to sell international cricket on Bank Holidays and Trent Bridge had asked if the game could be moved to a work day because they would find more takers. Counter-intuitive, perhaps, but there you are.

However, news reaches me that there actually was some international bank holiday cricket being played in this country yesterday. At Amersham Cricket Club in Buckinghamshire, the local side took on the Tanzania national XI, who are seeking practice before hosting the ICC World Cricket League Division 4 in October. Sadlyy, it wasn't a proud day for England. Tanzania won by 79 runs.

Comments

[Johnmc]

Nice to see my old club getting a mention - must say on the website's pics show the ground to be in excellent condition. I was slightly worried though that, although I knew the scorebox in which I spent many a Saturday afternoon had been replaced, one of those pics makes its seem as though the nets have been swapped for a bouncy castle. Mind you, in my last season there, the bouncy castle would have been of more use

[Andrew Nixon]

There were of course two full ODIs in the UK over the bank holiday weekend, but in Northern Ireland where Ireland played Kenya. The third takes place tomorrow. Ireland won the first with the second being rained out after eight overs. In that second ODI, Kyle McCallan gained his 200th Irish cap. In his younger days McCallan was coached by former Glamorgan player John Solanky who, to bring things around quite nicely, played for Tanzania before moving to the UK.