Cricket not my favourite sport

Cricket to me is a marmite sport you like it or hate it. It is a strange sport not universally accepted ( a bit like American football or baseball) which is played by British Empire countries, yes the old colonies, probably the only export still widely accepted. Other UK origin sports are much bigger and more popular everywhere - football ( soccer for USA), golf and tennis.

I said cricket is strange, it has many variations from test matches, 50 over (World Cup) and 20/20. The test match is the most unfathomable with five days of play that can still end in a draw. Weather always stops play which seems strange for a game who's origins are in a country of showers.

Play it's self can be very tedious with most of the play being taken by the bowler running or walking. After a few minutes the batsman gets a chance to hit the ball then off we go again walking and running.

I believe there are too many sports in the world today and more are invented every day, how about culling some of these sports so that we can concentrate on the better ones. My first selection would be cricket and maybe water polo. What do you think?  It's possible I don't understand cricket and I certainly cannot swim that well.

F1 and Lewis Hamilton Hungary 2019

As Lewis said himself it has been talked about for ages. The battle between himself and Max Verstappen would be great when it happened. On Sunday we are used to seeing Mercedes disappear into the distance however this week at the twisty Hungaroring,  it was a Red Bull and a Mercedes linked together by an invisible short tether that went into the distance. This battle was everything it was billed to be and on a circuit where they say you cannot pass.

It turned out that the superior driver and team won the day, but you must congratulate Max and the Red Bull team for taking it to Mercedes. This was the most exciting "racing" race we have see for years, with side by side moves no one would have thought possible. What makes it even better it was just not Max and Lewis fighting, it was all throughout the field. This is what we want in F1.

Well done to all the teams, in particular to Haas for colliding with each other.

photo by F1