Yes to Sidearse. He actually played well and was easily man of the series.

No to Vaughan. He averaged 20 with the bat and leading your team to victory against the Kiwi’s – who let’s face it would be an average county side (ranked 7 in the world) is hardly an achievement.

And at least we can support the gentlemen in the English cricket team, most of the English football team are utter utter gits (especially Rooney, Terry and Ashley Cole)

Surely it’s all down to good old Ryan “Sidey” Sidebottom for his 7 cheap wickets in the first innings!

Nonsense. It is our heroic captain who should be saluted for steering our boys to a sterling victory against all the odds.

Needing more than 200 to win with one wicket left Southee, a valient young Kiwi making his test debut decided to go out in style. Taking on Panesar (who’d bowled 17 maidens from 30 something overs and taken 6 wickets) Southee put away his bat and got out his seven iron.

He bludgeoned the fasted fifty ever by a Kiwi in 29 balls blasting Panesar for six repeatedly and hitting Anderson quite literally out of the ground. When Broad was bought on he hit him for two sixes in an over and continued on to hit a grand total 9 sixes – more than any Kiwi or Englishmen in history! All this from a 19 year old, test-debutant bowler.

Sadly the rabbit at the other end left him stranded on 77 not out (with 54 in sixes alone) from 40 balls. A herioc and quite frankly almost “British” failure.

Gentlemen let that be a lesson to us all. If you’re going down, go down guns blazing, and bring the bastards down with you. Southee, we salute you.

This is the recipe for the brownies we’ll be celebrating your birthday with. Cheers!

Cheers t n g for the kitesurfing DVD and expansion for Carcasonne. I shall master Kiteloops in no time! Now if only I could master turning… 😉