Royal Adelaide GC

[Jason McNamara]

the ashes are being played in the UK next summer.  Just remember when planning your TV viewing that the difference between a one day international and a test match is normally about two days.  Don't plan on watching too much on days 4 and 5!

James -

Thanks for that handy viewing tip!    Remember though that Ponting has not been enforcing the follow-on this year, so we're more likely to at least get to the fifth day, if not all the way through.

England can't be favorites this (late) summer, but they could give the visitors a pretty good game this go-round.  Unfortunately I'll have to follow on Cricinfo, as there's no TV coverage here.  Maybe one of these days we'll add Sky Sports as one of our 8 million channels.

The Black Caps barely got through 40 overs last night, so that helped a bit with bedtime.  

Jason

[Chris Kane]

Jason, you should be hung, drawn and quartered for even watching that rubbish called One Day Internationals.    Test cricket is the real thing.  As the wonderful saying goes, ODI's are "just not cricket"!

Have you been coverage of that 20-20 junk?

[James Bennett]

Jason

Ponting is reticient to enforce the follow-on after Australia lost one of the all-time great test-matches In India a few years ago.  Fortunately, we have Fox Sports at home, so we got to see a memorable loss.  Yes, an Ozzy rejoicing in the quality of a test that we lost!

The other good thing about Fox Sports is that we get to see replays of the 2004 US Tour events.   The last few weeks of tour events in California have been like Groundhog Day.  At least this morning we saw patches of sunlight at the WGC Matchplay 'Lake Course'.

[Jason McNamara]

Jason, you should be hung, drawn and quartered for even watching that rubbish called One Day Internationals.    Test cricket is the real thing.  As the wonderful saying goes, ODI's are "just not cricket"!

Have you been coverage of that 20-20 junk?

Chris -

Twenty20 is like me playing nine holes.  Doesn't take long, and the ball gets hoiked all over the lot.  A quick flip of the hands with the tee shot, and I'm looking at a 4 towards long on.   NB:  If you've ever seen CBS coverage, sometimes Oosterhuis and Feherty will mention hoiks.  Don't know if they've ever referred to a Hank Kuehne drive as an cow shot, however.

As for the pyjama (sic) game, I think I'm too new to cricket to be totally averse to it, but clearly the tests offer much more in the way of strategy.  Good to have something more than "we'll conserve wickets for the first 35 overs, boys, and then go out and have a nice slog."

Now I learn DirecTV has pay-per-season cricket (home tests and ODIs of Aus, SA, Zim [fwiw], and Windies, I think).  Not England, however, so no Ashes at this point.  Still, I might have to go get a dish.

Jason

ps to James:  I've already proposed a revised PGA tour schedule (see elsewhere on this site) which removes Pebble, Torrey, and Riviera from the California version of "the wet," and am perfectly happy to move La Costa as well, physically and/or temporally.