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Nice one, Rich

Have you read "Penguins Stopped Play"? ... Very highly recommended.

Looking forward to the match reports.

Icy

Funnily enough, I'm reading it now. My brother gave it to me as a present

I'd dearly love to be able to pop down and share my innate australian cricketing ability with you, but well - I've a snooker tournament tonight

Hope you get the numbers, the weather holds and you have a thrashing good time

Thanks Matt! We do have a spare room if you ever want to come down and play for us, you know. The accent alone will probably intimidate the opposition, especially if we let you chirp a bit at slip

I could play stupidly close mid-on if you like...

That could work, you know. We've got an Egyptian fella who is quite podgy and, without getting into racial stereotyping, he *looks* like a quality subcontinental spinner should look - a bit like Romesh Powar, in fact:

http://loveforthegame.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rpow.jpg

He can't bowl to save his life, but I reckon if I bring him on and put a forward short leg in place, he might do enough to intimidate the opposition attack