Happy New Year!

Hello everyone, Happy New 2010 and I hope you're as pleased as I am to be able to say that THIS year could turn out to be the year of the Falcons!

I was a bit surprised when reading Teletext this morning. On successive page headlines it says that "Taylor is delighted by MBE" then says "Taylor charged after bar scuffle".
I thought that perhaps one had led to a celebration that had got out of hand, but it turned out that the former applied to England ladies cricket captain Claire, while the latter referred to West Indies fast bowler Jerome...

Not much to report today, apart from a decent knock by Travis Birt for Tasmania, which, coupled with a brisk 47 from overseas player Rana Naved ul Hasan (ex Yorkshire and Sussex) enabled them to post a decent, winning total against Western Australia. The Aussie T20 side to beat would appear to be New South Wales, for whom format specialist Dave Warner hit 50 in a competition record 18 balls a couple of days back. He and Phil Hughes added a mind boggling 94 for the first wicket in just 7 overs, although the later batsmen struggled to get going and they fell just short of 200. Still enough for an easy win though against a Tasmania side that look a shadow of their former selves without ex-Derbyshire players Michael di Venuto and Michael Dighton, not to mention our player-that-nearly-was Damian Wright.

Anyway, must go. New Year's Day dinner at my mother in law's beckons and I'll have to find those trousers with an industrial strength waistband to cope with her portion control!

Good job I'm not playing for a few weeks yet... time to get that waistline back in order.

Have a good one and see you soon.