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Grunger

I think the Counties and NHS are worried about large numbers of students using T20 games as venues for end of term parties! Naturally it`s loyal Cricket followers like us who suffer - I`m not going to games until we can move about the ground freely and public transport gets back to operating normally.

Tyke

No cricket so spent the day in North Wales. Came across the White Rose Shopping Centre in Rhyl! Felt very safe but would have been at OT too.

Grunger

Confess I didn`t know the Broad Acres stretched as far as Rhyl!

Hope we put up a better show in the Roses clash tonight than we did in the debacle at Birmingham the other day 🏏

Thank you Sir Ian McGeechan!
On the British Lions broadcast on Sky, he has just (correctly) said "you cannot overestimate the problems....", instead of the ubiquitous sports commentators' "cannot underestimate....".

Here's a headline I saw today:
It would have been a travesty if England didn’t win.

I'm not sure but the tenses don't seem to match. I would prefer:
It would have been a travesty if England hadn’t won.

and
It will be a travesty if England don't win.

but they did!

A travesty of what? I suppose it could be a travesty of justice or injustice. I expect us to win but look forward to seeing the handsome, stylish Italians.

Grunger

I suppose Chiellini is an exception, but he speaks great English, despite never having lived here.

The chief sports editor of the Times wrote on their front page that Germany were England's "long-term neurosis". I think he must have meant nemesis.

There was a clue for us all in today's Times...

1 A. Amuse pedant coming out of his shell (6).

Because it's in today's paper, I won't mention the answer.

PS I'd have enjoyed the clue even more if it had said 'her shell'.