The wait goes on
Early last week the counties were advised that the fixtures would be with them early this week with a view to them being made public later this week. Then late last week another message went round to say this would not be the case. No further missives have been sent.
The delay stems from West Indies having replaced Sri Lanka as the early-season touring team. It would appear logical to simply slot West Indies into the fixtures allocated to Sri Lanka but evidently it is not that straightforward.
The delay has considerable knock-on inconvenience for the counties because all next season's planning, including Second XI fixtures, stem from the first-team fixture programme.
On a different note, stopping off at a cafe in Cullompton, Devon, recently I ordered a sausage sandwich. I then made the terrible mistake of looking inside said victual to discover that the "sausage" was the most frightening, shapeless, festering slab of grey, greasy gunge in the history of the culinary world. Doggedly, I forced it down and felt queasy for the rest of the day as it languished down there, impervious to anything my digestive systrem could throw at it.
Competition time. Can anybody challenge that as the least pleasant eating experience of all time? First prize: Dinner for two at a little place I know in Cullompton.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
I once at a delicious, though somehwat, chewy curry in Nigeria under the impression it was chicken when it was, in fact, Giant Snail.
I no longer eat curry.
At a late-night drinking den in Liverpool a few years ago, some food came out which they had to serve to get a licence to serve booze late. It was so dark we couldnt see what the food was and the stuff in question, vaguely mince-based, was so hot we couldn't taste what it was. I dread to think what was in it.
The ECB have just said that the fixtures will be out "early-to-mid December"