* Updates from the final day of play at the SCG * Any thoughts? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 12.51am GMT I can’t even tell if it’s raining any more. The covers are still down. I’m enjoying this non-session, though, with all your correspondence. Speaking of speaking to you all: if you’re an OBO reader in Melbourne, Adam Collins and I are doing a live version of our cricket podcast The Final Word next week. Thursday Jan 17th at the Commercial Club pub in Fitzroy. 12.48am GMT Here’s Olly. “Although I imagine the average age of us OBOers is probably above 40, such is the immediacy of modern times with access to online services and instant knowledge gratification I think we only remember the good times. In the history of Test cricket all countries have had their ups and downs and the beauty of it is, is that they don’t coincide. So right now India are brilliant and the Aussies are struggling. Roll on ten years and the picture may well be different. Or, as Plato put it better than me when he and his fellow philosophers were constructing the cradle of civilisation that was Ancient Greece: ‘Some days you’re the statue, and some days you’re the pigeon.’” Or as I similarly wrote in a poem not quite so long ago, “Some days you’re bowling, and some days you’re batting / and some days you’re Warnie, and some days you’re Gatting.” Continue reading...
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