And the English Summer of Cricket finally gets underway against The Windies from Southampton on the glorious South Coast with no crowds under gloomy, grey leaden skies, light drizzle, a balmy 12C warming up to maybe 15C by lunch, covers staying put, all-English Umpires wandering about aimlessly occasionally putting down their brollies only to hastily re-erect them, former players social distancing on the balcony waffling for hours about the good old days when heroic English cannon fodder were served up to 90mph Windies quicks for breakfast in floppy hats, Nasser Hussain remote interviews Ohhhhh Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy Andersen and enquires as to whether he misses face to face interviews... “only with you, Nass” Jimmy quips, quick as a flash, highlight of the morning... and any minute now, maybe there will be an announcement on some kind of action, maybe the toss and Test Match Cricket is back. Ahhh... Nothing like it. Might go to bed then.
