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What a luverly day to watch cricket. Middx v Glam

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By Janet Davis April 24 2008
Janet Davis reports on Day One at Lord's. We hear about her early rise and eating habits while waiting with great patience for play to start. After a good start wickets fell cheaply before David Nash came to the resue again. read on to hear her take on the truncated day's play.
  I’ve been anticipating the first match of the season for some time. The only bugbear was that it was Pesach (Passover) and I have to change my diet completely. I anticipated getting up at 6.30am, but could not drag myself out of bed until an hour later. I duly packed my food including ‘yummy’ shmurah matzos (hand baked and more like edible cardboard than food). If anyone wants to try these I’ll have some with me tomorrow. My friend kindly gave me some of her special Pesach gefilte fish (made from salmon and ground almonds and really is delicious). I don’t know why I got up so early last year as I was still ready by 8.30am. To my dismay it was drizzling, which got heavier as I walked to the 253 bus stop. It was still raining when I got to Lord’s, so I ensconced myself in the Middlesex room. I was amazed to see that they were still digging for England outside Lord’s. With nothing to do with my hands I fressed (ate) and fressed, until I realised the food has got to last me all day. There were two inspections by the umpires, one at 11.10am and another at 1125am. At 11.45am it looked as if it had started to brighten up (or was it wishful thinking on my part?).  They then declared that there would be an early lunch (12.45pm) so by 12.30pm there was activity from the ground staff as they started to remove the covers. At 1.15pm the sun came out and blue skies appeared. As the hover cover came off the wicket looked really green. Ed J then inspected the wicket with Andy Strauss and Toby Radford. Unlike last season, when the wicket was grand stand side until after the first test, this wicket was almost central, but slightly towards the mound stand. A 2.15 start was announced with the toss at 1.45pm. Unfortunately Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field first. Billy and Andy opened the batting and Gillespie and Harrison the bowling. Strauss looked in good touch despite the difficult batting conditions as the ball was moving about quite a lot. On 69/1 Strauss edged one behind which Wallace held on to (as he had already dropped Strauss before off Gillespie’s bowling). Shah faced just eight balls when he edged one to Wallace for 0. It was 82/3 when Billy hit one to short leg and Rees took a really good catch. By then I was joined by my friend Stephen and his sons Alec (9) and Joel (20).  I usually give Alec sweets etc, and didn’t disappoint today. They are also Jewish. We were in desperate need for some consolidation from Joyce and Morgan, and I thought that we were getting it when Morgan hit two 4’s off Gillespie, however shortly after tea he edged one to Wallace off Harrison (95/4). That’s 4 wickets for 26 runs……………..oooooops. Joyce was then joined by Nash and they put on 73 before Joyce edged one to Wallace. Berg joined Nash and took us up to close of play. Both played plenty of strokes. The new scoreboards look good. My only complaint about them is that they do not flash up who fielded the ball.      

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