How low can you go

Shower Watch....99-10..Aussie shower gel shortage reaches epidemic proportions...God how the 'sheila's' must love the smell of ripe cheese. Still the soap is a good place to leave your money while your playing....







Australian 'Club' Cricketer explains himself....................... Gill arrives at the ground

Well as regular bloggers will know, I work alongside Jemma, the sister of Justin Langer and I wanted to pay tribute to Justin, who will retire at the end of the Sydney Test. Especially as I have given Jemma some almighty stick..(Putting pictures of Freddie above her desk. Union Flags on the walls....etc...) Jemma has taken everything in the great Aussie way and She has certainly had the last laugh.

Justin Langer said that the timing’s right for him to hang up his boots. Speaking about Australia’s unexpected win in Adelaide, he said:

“I just wonder how it can get better than that? Everyone keeps saying ‘you’ll know when it’s time’. Well, at one o’clock two days ago I knew it was time - it just came to me.”

Langer is Australia’s warrior, and that gritty, hard-nosed determination will certainly be missed. He scored 3 double hundreds in his career, 23 centuries, and together with his good mate Matt Hayden was one of the most potent opening partnerships the game has ever known. He contemplated retirement after copping a heavy blow to the head from Makhaya Ntini last February, but, like Shane Warne, the desire to win back the Ashes was so strong that he had to continue on until the precious urn was back in Australian hands.... Then again he may have heard about the emerging talent of a certain 40 year old Pom from Perth...Lets face it I could get a duck as easily as Geraint Jones....


Anyhow the Ashes ain't over yet......

The cricketing world has been quick to heap universal condemnation upon the leaking of a photocopy of Australia’s bowling tactics for the current Ashes series. An A4 sheet handed to journalists purports to detail the Australian team’s plan for combating the formidable English batting lineup. Said Sky Sport’s Ian Botham: ‘This is the sort of information the Australian team wouldn’t want their opponents to know. It will probably swing the series back in favour of the tourists and I’d say that the battle for the Ashes is back on again.’

Meanwhile, the Australian team have lodged a complaint with match officials. ‘We’ll have to rethink our whole selection policy,’ said captain Ricky Ponting, who went on to hint at the immediate dropping of Shane Warne from the team. ‘Now the English team know our tactics, Warney is clearly of no use to us now, we may have to draft in Dame Edna and Kylie’ Ricky 'Butch' Ponting confirmed.

The English dressing room has been quick to deny suggestions that they hope to gain any advantage from the leak. ‘We won’t be responding to this in any way,’ said Duncan Fletcher. ‘Speaking for the team, we’ll be out there are usual tomorrow morning, playing the same high standard of Test Match cricket we’re known for and putting our faith in our usual opening pairing Prince Edward and Sir Elton John.