No not with Husband and I but with our cricketers in Oz.
Recently I have been praising my husband because, with the Dukan diet kicking in and the pounds dropping off, he has been giving me restful nights with no interruptions by his nasal passages. However the last couple of mornings I have been awoken extremely early by that very English sound of willow on leather as Husband sneakily turns on the TV to watch the goings on in Australia. I know very little about cricket but I detect that we have a bit of a situation and our boys seem to have become a little unstuck. I have to admit that it is quite restful lying in bed listening to cricket, particularly this morning as Aussie wickets were not falling (sadly) and so crowd noise was at a minimum. Also cricket commentators have such deliciously soporific voices, I would even go so far as to to make a sweeping generalisation and say that most seem to have the velvety Yorkshire lilt and much of the time theywhisper their commentary. Clearly they know that there are hundreds of women out there still trying to sleep? It is such a welcome change to those so (UN) dulcet tones of Andy Gray during a football match.
Sometimes though I wonder, in my half awake state, if I am back in the middle of a Harry Potter film as I listen to phrases like, silly mid-off, nip-backer and off-cutter. Do they assume that everyone watching is a keen cricket fan and knows what they are talking about and if not then the Ashes is not the time to teach newcomers the language of the sport! I really only know Freddie Flintoff who is a bit of a cricket pin-up but he has retired and since cricketers don’t seem to have WAG’s like footballers do i.e. they are low-key, less high maintenance and more discreet then there is little for us ladies to get our teeth into.
Anyway I am relaxed in the knowledge that, for the foreseeable future, I will be awoken early and I am hopeful that our slow start will change and therefore I look forward to that 4″ urn of ashes (burnt bails apparently) being retained by England!
P.S. Can someone tell Stuart Broad to put some suntan lotion on as his face is going to be so sore!!