Maddy, Donald, Patel, gas man.
Darren Maddy, who was due to have an operation on his snapped cruciate ligament on Thursday, will not now do so as he has spent the last four days in hospital with bacterial pneumonia. Poor Darren, who is having a shocker of a 2009, was really laid low, weak and vomiting, and spent his 35th birthday, on Saturday, in hospital. All being well he will be out today.
Allan Donald has been unsuccessful with his application to become head coach of the Eagles franchise in Bloemfontein.
Warwickshire expect to lose Jeetan Patel in August for New Zealand's tour of Sri Lanka.
We had a bloke come to fix our boiler yesterday. He came in and predicted, correctly as it turned out, that it would rain last night and there would be showers this morning. But he failed to fix the boiler. I think that chap is in the wrong job.



Perhaps Shefali Oza can mend boilers.
I don't suppose you're watching the Bears/Devon match tonight that I found out about by accident?
Hi Emma. No I'm not! After Canterbury, Taunton, Edinburgh, London etc I didn't need Exmouth, lovely through it may be, tonight - as I'm pretty sure the Bears players don't.
I'm afraid that given my exams, the idea of Exmouth and cricket that even the Bears should manage to cope with sounds rather pleasant. They could always do my revision for me, if they'd like a change...
Pity the club hasn't bothered to advertise it at all, there must be a few souls who might have been interested in the travel. I gather we've played there in previous years, but have never heard of such a fixture!