Anything Hughes can do Ramps can't do better

Forever in Middx Hearts

By Hippity
December 6 2014

Hippity a reporter from our past reports on Phillip Hughes final CC game for Middlesex.  Given we had a fluffy object reporting there maybe some irrelevant detail   However, we capture Phil's 3rd century in 4 innings ( the other innings he was not out)

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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