Trent Bridge Nottingham. The second Test England V South Africa

X This shot is probably not going to be appreciated by too many of my foreign contacts .It is an image from the third day of the second test between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. It was a perfect day for cricket and South Africa batted wonderfully putting the English bowlers to the sword. The shot is of the fast bowler Wood about to bowl from the Pavilion End.

 

Regardless of this I had a wonderful day on Sunday, drinking chilled white wine with the constant murmur of the large crowd with the occasional crack as another ball was dispatched to the boundary by South African batsmen. I was reminded of the words of the great cricket writer Neville Cardus who wrote in 1924

 

"Trent Bridge is a lotus land for batsmen, a place where it was always afternoon and 360 for two wickets"

 

English actually lost the test match on Monday, so it is, one all in the series with two more to matches play

 

 

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED AND SO MUCH MORE INTRESTING THAN JUST GIVING A FAVE

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