Rain Dance

What a crock of shíte! Surely this rain is not a new phenomena, perhaps even something they could have considered before awarding the series to Sri Lanka in the first place?

Presumably Cricket South Africa have guaranteed a mid spring dry spell, and have their best witchdoctor slaying the finest vírgins to ensure no rains eventuate.

Can’t they just say it’s cause of terrorists? No-one wants to get shot so they’ve moved it and blamed it on the weather. There, that wasn’t so hard, was it?

However, my view has now most certainly changed with today’s news that terrorists have attacked the Sri Lankan team bus!

At least eight players in the Sri Lankan national cricket team were hurt when masked gunmen fired on the team bus in Lahore while being driven to the Gaddafi stadium on Tuesday.

Thilan Samaraweera, scored back-to-back double centuries in this series, apparently has a thigh injury and is in hospital. Skipper Mahela Jayawardene was slightly wounded in the foot, another had been injured in the chest, and that veteran bowler Chaminda Vaas had been injured and “carried off on a stretcher”. Kumar Sangakkara is also amongst the injured

Five Pakistani policemen were killed, the city police chief said.

Needless to say the Test and tour will be canceled, and it’ll be a very long time before anyone plays cricket in Pakistan again. What a sad sad day for the sport.