Our "Summer" of Cricket

Twenty20 Cricket - NZ v Scotland; AUS v WI - The Oval

Was cold, wet day at the Oval with a delayed start to the first game between NZ and Scotland... I was going for Scotland... they had a McLeod in the team afterall! Ended up being a 7 over a side match... so a bit of a free for all! In the end it was an NZ win...

Given the late start to the game and how cold it was... we had all managed to have quite a few drinks before the Aussie match even started! (The poor kid sitting next to us who had made a trek over from the Isle of Wight to see his first ever international cricket match!!)

But that was probably a blessing given the result! Took the edge off the hurt of all Gayle's 6s!!

The Ashes!! - 4th Test - Headingley

Paid a fortune for tickets through Thomas Cook Sport for days 2 and 3 of the 4th test in Leeds - but we definitely picked the right test and the right days to attend! We had absolutely glorious weather, and of course the right result! A win on day 3! The atmosphere at Headingley is fantastic... most seats are so close to the action, I'm not sure that there is a bad place to sit!

One Day International - Australia v England - Lords

After the atmosphere of Leeds, Lords was very ... subdued... very 'proper'. I'm glad to be able to say that I've watched Australia play (and win!) at Lords and it's cool that you can bring a bottle of wine in (hehe!) but I think I would go back to Headingley before Lords just cause of the atmosphere.

Managed to get the tickets to the one dayer by joining the ECB's "Twelfth Man" (shshsh don't tell them an Aussie became a member!) for 12 months. They have allocated tickets to all the big matches and members enter a ballot to get tickets. I was hoping to get tickets to the Ashes through this but was happy with the 1-day tiks!