Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can't Do Better)

Huge Again!

By Hippity the Green Bunny
May 7 2009

Hippity gives us chapter and verse from his vantage point in front of the TV and Computer screens. This perspective should ring true for most Middlesex fans, especially as Hippity's incisive analysis is usually so very accurate. Discerning readers will press ahead with glee.

It should be a  lot of fun, a day like today.  Middlesex playing at the Oval and England playing at Lord's.  You'd have thought that Mummy and Daddy would arrange a light day's work - not a bit of it.  I'm just left here to my own devices.  My main device is the TV controller, which I can use to see the Test Match on Sky or the Middlesex game on Ceefax.

I flit between the two.  The Ceefax is a bit boring at first - Ramps and Schofield are still there.  The test is similar with Bopara and Swann.  But soon I flick across to Ceefax to see that Ramps is finally out for 133.  Thank you Steve Finn.  And while I am taking that in, Murtaza joins him in the hutch, so they are 7-down, just like England. 

Daddy was working upstairs in his home office, but soon comes downstairs, gets dressed up in his suit and disappears off to see a client.  That means I can crawl upstairs and switch on the internet radio and listen to Uncle Kevin Hand. But half the time the radio has the nasel tones of Mark Church and some other fellow I don't know.

Eventually, after lunch, Middlesex finish off Surrey, just as eventually West Indies finish off England.

I go back downstairs to watch England bowl (I can't bear listening at the start of a Middlesex innings - I get too anxious).  I've only been watching a while when Mummy comes in - she has a break between client visits and is going to watch the test match with me on TV.  So we do that for a while.  Mummy says that Onions looks no use and I tell her that Dady saw Onions decimate Middlesex at Lord's on a day just like today.  Mummy tells me I'm a mad bunny.

Meanwhile, when Mummy goes to the loo I switch over to Ceefax and see that Phil Hughes is storming it, while Billy G isn't, but at least Billy G is still there and Middlesex are doing well.

Then, just before tea, Daddy gets back from his appointment and catches me and Mummy at it (watching cricket).  I thought he'd be really angry with us both, but he laughs and says that he'll watch for 10-15 minutes before going back upstairs.  That was when Swann took his 2 in 2.  Then Mummy tells Daddy that Onions is no good and Daddy tells Mummy that Onions bowled really well at Lord's in 2006 in conditions just like today.  Mummy says that Daddy's judgement on such matters is almost always right, so she'd reserve her judgement on Onions until he's bowled a bit more.  How come I'm a mad bunny for saying the same thing, then?

Towards the end of the day, Onions has decimated the Windies, just as Daddy and I predicted, so Daddy switches on the Internet Radio and I listen in.  Billy G has gone by then and we hear Dexter go soon.  Mark Church speaks highly of Billy G's innings and everyone is waxing lyrical about how amazing Phil Hughes is.   It seems he tweaked his hamstring a bit (not that it seems to have hampered him) so all the commentators were guessing (hoping) he'll have to miss the Ashes. 

Daddy sent Kevin Hand an e-mail asking about his interview with Barmy Kev - Mark Church read it out and made a joke about witnessing that poolside interview.

I was so thrilled when Hughes got to 134* - one better than Ramps and still going.  Anything Hughes can do, Ramps can't do better, so yah boo sucks to him.

Match poised.  As long as it doesn't rain too much tomorrow there might be a stunning ending to the county match.  Which is more than can be said for teh one-way-traffic at Lord's.

Thank you for reading this.

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Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can't Do Better)

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Primrose Hillbilly (IP Logged)

08/05/2009 07:43

If all Hippity's match report posts can be done in this semi autobiographical manner, and report on more parallel Test / Middx match combo's, I think we may yet have the next "A Lot Of Hard Yakka" on our hands!

IMHO, I think it's as good as some of the nationally respected blogs, and funnier than most.

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BarmierKev (IP Logged)

08/05/2009 18:22

Thanks for report Hip. You know we can rely on you from various vantage points when we are desparate.

Many thanks to daddy for mentioning that infamous interview.
Mark Synagogue did feed me some lines to enhance interview.

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Barmy Kev
I'm only here for the tele

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Hippity the Green Bunny (IP Logged)

10/05/2009 17:53

Thank you for the fan mail! Thank you for the fan mail!! Thank you for the fan mail!!!

If you want to send your fan mail to me privately, I can be reached on [email]hippitythegreenbunny@googlemail.com [/email]

Thank you for reading this.

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Ged (IP Logged)

10/05/2009 18:40

One piece of fan mail and it goes straight to the bunny's head.

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BarmierKev (IP Logged)

10/05/2009 19:54

There's me thinking the only chance of Hippity getting fan mail was him receiving something to cool him down in the post

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Barmy Kev
I'm only here for the tele

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