Friday, January 25, 2019

Cricket.

So much for all the arrogance about 'how England would brush the Windies aside in Barbados - after all,  it is only a preparation for the Ashes this summer' - REALITY ARRIVED and big style!
England were skittled for a derisory 77 in the first innings of the First Test, yesterday.
Defeat is 99.9% certain - and probably today!


The series win in Sri Lanka was, by no means, as convincing as the rabid optimists have been claiming. We won the toss in every test. Yesterday, Root lost the toss!
Please arrange these words into a well-known phrase or saying:
come ... roost ... have ... chickens ...the ... home ... to. (There is a clue in the picture, BTW.)

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