Groundhog Day

3rd March 2008

So here we are and spring has sort of sprung though it is supposed to snow later this week. But there is a feeling of like progress about most things at this time of year yeah and New Year resolutions are way in the past and life goes on.

Except. This year so far it has seemed that India and Australia have got like totally stuck like always playing cricket against each other.

It started back in December 2007 right with the Test Match series which is called the Border Gavaskar Trophy. So they played four of those and then they played a Twenty/20 game and then began the Commonwealth Bank Series which is being played between Australia, India and Sri Lanka and in that Series they all play against each other over and over again yeah and it hasn’t finished yet. So for more than two months right there has been always a cricket match on or about to be on or just finished between the Indians and the Australians.

Now this wouldn’t matter so much right except that they like totally hate each other right well their supporters do anyway. Trouble kicked off at the Test in Sydney and there were accusations of abuse etc etc as I have mentioned before yeah. And even though Australia have won most of the many many encounters since yeah there has been no lightening up *sigh* and you still cannot set your virtual foot on a cricket blog without being surrounded by Aussies and Indians like hurling insults at each other yeah about aborigines and the caste system and all kinds of stuff which is so so stupid because if you go back like 150 years right everybody was downtreading somebody and there was still slavery and that was then this is now.

And I said to Karl I was like I really hate this yeah what has happened to my cricket blogs which were full of nice old people worrying about whether or not Monty Panesar is truly developing a fine cricket brain and how vulnerable is Ali Cook if they keep bowling outside his off stump and suchlike things. I said it’s like being back at school with all this overheated testosterone yeah but Karl was like on the footie blogs this is completely normal right so I give up.

Anyway there are now three final matches in the Commonwealth Bank Series and Sri Lanka right who are really good players yeah but have been kind of like a greyhound between two rottweilers lol have gone home yeah probably heaving sighs of relief and so the three final matches are between guess who. And like only in cricket would you have three finals yeah I thought final meant last not last but two duh.

As I write this India have won the first of the finals yeah in a convincing fashion as the saying goes. The great Sachin Tendulkar right who is known as The Little Master which would totally piss me off if I was him has scored a fine century yeah after not we must admit doing anything like spectacular in the earlier rounds so just in time eh Sachin :). Harbhajan Singh has been rude again *sigh* but perhaps everybody is getting used to it now yeah or at least have run out of energy to make a fuss or is that too much to hope for anyway Hayden said something snotty about him on the radio yawn yawn yawn yawn you see the problem. And Australia managed to be defeated without actually grinding their teeth to fine powder right but it was a close thing lol and India are certainly in with a chance of winning the CB series if it ever ends.

Because in fact this Commonwealth Bank is making me remember when I first was introduced to cricket yeah and thought it was a form of slow torture and although in theory right it will soon be over and it seems they will not be doing it again yeah I have a strange strange feeling that part of the cricket world has stepped over into another dimension yeah and somewhere the Indians and Australians will always be playing cricket against each other and there will be nothing anyone in our like version of the universe can do.

Perhaps yeah they are like those ancient Greeks who died and had to spend the like afterlife pushing big rocks up hills and stuff yeah or maybe the not quite legendary Ricky Ponting yeah has struck a bargain with the Devil so that he can play India for like all eternity until his legendary status is established.

Maybe when they get on their planes yeah and think they are going home the planes will like go through some hole in space and time and they will step off the planes and find they are mysteriously back where they started right and have to play all the matches again yeah would they be allowed to have different results I wonder.

I am quite worried about this like feeling of trappedness and like endless repetition not to say paranormal doom yeah but Karl says if I supported one of the top four in the Premier League I would be quite used to feeling like this so there we are.

Update 4th March 2008

Well so India have just won the second final yeah which means they have won the Commonwealth Bank Series hooray and hurrah and the Aussies are smiling while grinding their teeth again yeah and will probably say oh it’s just the CB it doesn’t matter right which is what they said when we beat them in the last one lol.

And now we shall find out yeah because they won’t play the third final right on account of there is like a result yeah so the teams should be like dispersing now and going home but...will they get there yeah? Will there ever be like an end? Will those planes land in our dimension or in like somewhere else right where they have to start all over again with the Border Gavaskar Tests? Am I right and they are doomed forever throughout like unending time?

Alisha is saying Chanelle you have completely lost the plot and this is what getting into cricket does for you.