I don't like cricket, Oh No!

Well, as the song says, we loved it! Even Nat, who is an avowed cricket hater!

We drove down on Saturday with Dillan, to Sneddon Park in Hamilton, to watch England play the NZ Black Caps on the fourth day of the second test (I think! See, you can tell I'm not much of a cricket fan either!) Hamilton is just over an hour South of Auckland so we didn't have to get up early and had beautiful weather for the day.

We took a picnic with us (though we forgot the picnic rug!) and sat on the bank surronding half the pitch soaking up the very chilled atmosphere and cheering on our boys. I'll leave it to you to decide who that means we were supporting now that we've jumped ship.

England were in bat and put up a reasonable defence to start off with, though didn't quite maintain the standard and ended the first innings with a fairly respectable two hundred and something, though that still left them one hundred and something behind the Kiwis.

At lunchtime the pitch was opened so people could take their kids on and have a quick knock-about, which was great fun and typical of the laid-back atmosphere. Dillan and I took the opportunity to go and watch some of the bowling practice going on.

We left at teatime with the Kiwis having got off to a bad start in ther second innings, and listening to the radio on the way home we heard the NZ team all but collapse. On Sunday morning the Kiwi collapse continued and they were soon all out, giving England a genuine chance of a win. Of course that was not to be as we had an even worse second innings, all out for sixty-something handing victory to the home side.

Still we had a lovely day out and a nice picnic in the sun! :-)