The Frumplingtons

And no, I’m not making it up.

I wasn’t going to mention The Ashes. After all, it was several days ago (maybe even as much as a week) that it was finally confirmed that Australia had regained the trophy, so it’s not exactly fresh news. And, to be perfectly honest, England’s defeat was not entirely unexpected either, at least not by seasoned cynics like us: even though England won The Ashes last year, one of the matches (Trent Bridge, wasn’t it?) was won by a mere two runs. So we knew they had to do more than just be lucky if they wanted to retain the title this winter.

So, thus far, no news and no surprises either.

Except for a story which I found on Rogue Semiotics the other day. Anyone who may have been making disparaging comments about England’s performance during the current Ashes series, and suggesting that a team of blind men could have done better, should of course be thoroughly ashamed of such politically incorrect, not to mention unpatriotic, sentiment. However, a blind team really has done better: England beat Australia on December 6th; the winning margin was 5 wickets. No scraping home by a measly two runs, you will notice.

So, how come this wasn’t all over the news? Search me. Except that this particular match was part of the Blind World Cup, which was, I believe, organized by the World Blind Cricket Council. We do get coverage of paralympic sports from time to time, including blind runners, but I have heard not a whisper about blind cricket yet.

I think it is high time Blind Cricket got more publicity.

Blind or sighted, I don’t mind. At least these guys know how to play!

Chris