I’m a big fan of the King Cricket website. It nearly always makes me laugh and they update their site a darn site more than me!

However one of the things that bugs me about the site is their worshipping of Rob Key. Now I know it’s good to have cricketing heroes but Rob Key? When he made his debut for England I was convinced that some big wig at the MCC had bribed the England selectors to let his fat son play. Judging by his performances, I’m still not discounting it…

Anyway, the guys over at King Cricket are currently asking readers to send in pictures of their hero in various guises. For obvious reasons I haven’t submitted my latest crap photoshopped effort so I thought I’d share it with you guys instead.

Tags: Cricket, Rob Key, Fat Git

No real surprises in the England team announced for the first Test against the West Indies. In some ways I’m disappointed that Motor Mouth Nixon didn’t get a Test debut but since he’s nearly as old as me, I’m not overly surprised either

Michael Vaughans broken finger nail ruled him out of selection so they gave the captaincy to Strauss. I guess Freddie was expecting it after the whole Pedalogate business at the World Cup.

England team for first Test vs West Indies
Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Matt Prior, Liam Plunkett, Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar, Owais Shah.

After my wee break from all things cricket, I’m actually quite looking forward to the first Test. If nothing else, it’ll be good to be back watching proper cricket rather than that pyjama business…

Tags: Cricket, England, West Indies