Bangers and Mash!

Commentators are pretty funny guys behind the scenes. They communicate with us in the van by talking on the same microphone that you, the viewer, will hear them on at home. How does the viewer at home not hear what is being said to the van downstairs? Their microphones are connected to a box and that box links them with the van downstairs. On that box are quite a few buttons and one of them is a talk back button which allows them to chat to the van by pressing and holding the button down which cuts the mic and stops it going to air and re-directs it to the van instead. Neil happened to deliver a good couple of sentences on the talk back to the van instead of to air which generally gets us in stitches because they now have to recover and recompose themselves and start all over again. Neil made it even funnier because he tried to make out as if he meant to do that which makes it even funnier because we all know he never  meant to.

Some crazy things can happen when you have to stay in a hotel for long enough. I got woken up at 2am by my next door neighbour having, as Andrew put it, Sexy Times! Man I was glad when it was over and could finally go back to sleep. Ah well I suppose that can be expected to happen at some time in one’s life.

Monday is the final day of the first test match in Zimbabwe since ages ago and it looks like they are going to beat bangers and mash. And not because Bangers are really weak but because Zim had really good strategies in place from day one, and it showed. Every day of the test match was pretty exciting and I think there are really good times ahead for Zimbabwe cricket.

Check THIS short clip for play of the week.

Pete our statistician sitting in the OB van and going through some notes with Felix our graphics operator.