cricket with balls

The English commentators were excited every time the ball spun on day one.

All three balls that did elicited yelps of orgasmic delight.

At other times they were happy enough to just say the ball was spinning when it wasn’t.

They were talking up Swann and Monty and talking about how they would be hard to play on the last day.

That might still be true, but today, only one spinner got scary spin, and that was Australia’s twelfth man for the rest of the series.

He got serious turn like turn to Graeme Swann.

Swann and Anderson still batted against him like you would against the slowest bowler in your class. 

Jimmy Anderson even shipped out an awful attempt at a reverse sweep (similar to the one I tried off Suave in the charity game).

When Hauritz cleaned up the tail (well they cleaned themselves up, yesterday he was the sword, today he was mop) it was only about 25 minutes later that Graeme Swann was on.

Swann did out bowl Hauritz in almost every sense of the word, but there was no spin and no batsman treating him like a net bowler.

Montybot was much the same.

They might still end the game well, but right now they seem amazingly playable.

Hauritz has bowled 24 overs, for 3 wickets.

Swann and Montybot have toiled for 31 overs for no joy.