Nothing happening at Lord’s I’m afraid, apart from the small matter that it is absolutely splooshing it down. That is in fact music to the (discerning) ears of Michael Hann who sends in this Amis esque (Amissian?) short story:
“Hello James, my American partner is currently staying with me, and last night – in warm sunshine on Primrose Hill – she unexpectedly expressed an interest in watching international cricket, since she had heard there was a match at Lord’s. I immediately went online and found, incredibly, there were some seats left on the Lord’s website, and duly paid £180 for two of them, caught in the excitement of showing this majestic sport to someone new.
I only checked the weather forecast after buying the tickets. Now I am in the position of praying for no play at all so I can get a refund for my own stupidity.
In that spirit I absolutely cannot recommend Dry the Rain by Beta Band for your rainy playlist.”
Our very own Luke McLaughlin is getting into the soggy swing of things:
“Sticking with 90s Dad Rock rain-related tunes…”
He’s alluding to my Travis infused preamble and no I will NOT hear a bad word sad against Fran and the lads. You hear?
“Hopefully the fans will get this later?”
Hard acts to follow…
Gah. Simon then updates a few seconds later to say it is hammering down now at Lord’s. Time to get stuck into his piece on Azan Awais then:
The lovers, the dreamers and me
It’s a strong start from Gary Naylor.
Simon pops up again from Lord’s to give an encouraging/not at all encouraging update. No rainbows in prospect just yet:
It is CURRENTLY NOT RAINING! But you can always tell how optimistic the ground staff are about the near future by how busy they get when the rain stops, and they are currently not at all busy. Some gentle squidgeeing is taking place.”
Righto, I’m going to hunt down some coffee and I’ll be back in a bit to sift through your suggestions for rain related genius. I’ve already done Andie MacDowell in FWAAF so you can’t have that. Sorry.
Live from Lord’s… it’s Simon Burnton!
It’s the most annoying kind of rainfall. Only just more than no rain. Lazy rainfall, the kind that can’t really be arsed to get out of its fluffy cloud of a weekend. Parsing the rain radar it looks like there might be an hour or so of afternoon dryness, but it’ll largely fall between 1-2pm so will probably be spent having lunch. It’ll then get heavier for as long as it takes for everyone to finally give up. On the plus side, I’ve ordered some wine.”
Stef B has been in touch to lament the weather but does suggest we have a communal listen to Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude. About time someone brought a touch of class to things round here:
Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.”
Please do send me your favourite rain/weather related songs, lyrics, books, films, quotes, scenes etc
Barney Ronay dipped his quill on Jofra:
Catch up with yesterday’s action with Ali Martin’s report:
The rain shouldn’t stop England winning this match and taking the series with one game still to play in Birmingham.
Joe Root’s side are 260 runs ahead with seven second innings wickets in hand. The forecast for later today and tomorrow is better, there should be plenty of opportunity for England to secure a first series win in 18 months. Gulp.
Preamble
Why does it always rain on me? Is it because England have Pakistan 81-3?
I’m afraid it is going to be a severely rain affected day three at Lord’s and the forecast is particularly grim, Rowan Atkinson’s Blackadder might describe it as wetter than a platypus at a private prep school. Something like that anyway.
We’ve had news from on high (the ECB bods rather than God, though it would be useful to get a steer from the biggun) that the start of play is ‘Officially Delayed’. Well, indeed.
The covers are on and will be for the foreseeable, any updates I’ll bring to you toot suite. Until then we’ll just have to while away the hours in trusty OBO rain delay fashion.
