So Ireland played their inaugural Test at Lord’s. England
turned up the temperature as London basked in 38 degrees, playing havoc with
the plethora of gingers on the pitch. Ben Stokes was rested, left to cultivate
freckles in his back garden. If Test cricket was sex, a five dayer would be
would be slow, gentle love making – foreplay with a candlelit dinner, maybe some wooing with a theatre ticket. This was
a quickie in a back alley. This four day test, was curtailed prematurely, much
to the chagrin of many a North Londoner – not the first time in my life this
has happened but let’s keep this at professional level, hey? Could Boris get
off to a winning start as Prime Minister? Or would he lead us blindly into the
Ashes with no future ahead of us? This was a review of the Lord’s Test….
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