- Martin Gough
- 11 Apr 07, 07:29 PM
Barbados - After a brief visit for warm-up games, the arrival of the Cricket World Cup proper in Barbados brought an instant change in tempo.
“What’s the pitch playing like?” asked Allan Lamb – who scored a Test century on his last visit to the Kensington Oval in 1990 – as he popped into the press box a few overs in.
He could answer his own question - “Whoa! It’s bouncy” - as a surprised Tamin Iqbal gloved Sajid Mahmood’s fiery third delivery high to point.
Continue reading "Barbados ups the pace"
- Martin Gough
- 11 Apr 07, 01:22 PM
Barbados - All hell broke loose a fortnight ago, when my blog on arrival in Guyana was picked up and picked apart on the front page of a national newspaper.
“Mr Gough makes the description of Guyana that even a half-wit mental asylum patient in the UK would do better at,” claimed the Kaieteur News of 27 March.
One of the newspaper’s columnists – who I refuse to give further fame by naming – took another step the following day.
He said of my parents, who by now were a little worried anyway: "If [they] are alive, then one hopes that they acknowledge that he is an embarrassment to the human race.
Continue reading "Au revoir Guyana"
