I needed to do some archaeology in my e-mail system for this match to work out who I went with on which days.
Turns out I went with Graham Stedman …latterly known as Iain Insteadman…:
Three Days At The Lord’s Test, England v West Indies, 7 to 9 September 2017
…on the Thursday, then with Janie on the Friday.
I hadn’t thought about this before, but Graham seems to be a bit of a rainmaker, if the story of his 2011 and 2017 visits to Lord’s might be deemed to be a reasonably-sized sample.
We only got just over half a day’s play on the Thursday; quite slow stuff at that.
Whereas Janie and I got a giant-sized day of cricket on the Friday, with fair weather and a Kevin Petersen double-hundred.
Here is a link to the match scorecard.
Still, Graham seemed to enjoy his day out:
Thank you very much indeed for an excellent day at the cricket. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a very welcome distraction from the office. I am only sorry our enjoyment was cut short by the rain.
I will follow the remainder of the match with extra interest.
I replied to his message by saying:
It was a pleasure and was good to see you. Janie felt badly on Friday that she and I did so much better weatherwise that day!
I am pretty sure this was the first of the occasions that Janie and I had our ears bent by a pair of retired Reuters journalists who told us exactly the same anecdotes, more or less word for word, both times.
But you do get a decent type of bore at Lord’s, you really do.