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Can't expect 600+ with 3 centurions every time. Poor shots by Alsop and Vince though. Wicket is a bit more lively than that of last week all the same.

T'was indeed. All the matches in our group produced a result though. Wouldn't have expected Surrey to get beaten by Gloucs though, still cricket is a funny old game sometimes.

Excellent session for Hants. Pushing 300 at tea with centuries for Alsop and Vince. Been a bit of a Vincefest really, excellent watching on the live stream.

Ah got it now; Cricinfo must automatically adjust to my time zone. Hants 37/1. Holland out for 11

Perhaps not. The Covid 19 crisiis in Continental Europe is pretty serious just now, probably because the vaccination programme here is a bit of a joke, started late, poorly organised and not enough doses. Here in France we don't even know how many cases there are each day due to regular statistics bungles Then you have to consider that some of the early administrated vaccine doses in the UK will be beginning to fade in efficiency, if you take the 6 months protection estimate as gospel that is.

So then, new season starts today at midday, strange start time for a CC match. Does that mean less overs in a day or a later finish?

Just a mini-season not worth worrying about. Scratch team most of the time because of injuries, other unavailabilities and I suspect a bit of perfectly comprehensible cost cutting.

Just a typical start to a Saint's season. We'll pick up in a month or so.

Much as expected, Hant's batting nowhere near good enough. Fortunately there's no relegation for this truncated season.

Not a bad start to the 4 day season today with Sussex 73-5 at lunch. Two wickets for the young Dale and 2 for Holland. Batting looks weak though, perhaps they'll yet surprise me.

Doesn't sound much like your average bunch of French "gens de voyage". They always leave mess and rarely engage in civilised behaviour. Then again that goes for about a third of the population of France anyway.

In the 60s I think it was about 2% of the age group that went to University. So about 98 % were denied access because of their educational level anyway. Most young people packed in school at 16 to learn trades or start working their way up the employment level ladder. Most families just couldn't afford for their young people to stay in full time education until they were 21 or 22 years old. There were grants of course but they were never enough to cover the cost. Then again a couple of A levels in those days gave you access to some really decent jobs in banks, the civil service,town halls and top notch companies.

Not surprising, they've absolutely nothing creative in midfield.

Well I looked into some of it the other day. Mali Common Rail was still in business up to about 2017 and had a nominal stock value of about a million suisse francs and a turnover of about 2 million of the same, about 40 employees, KL one and only director. The tractor division was insolvent as far back as 2012 and only had 15 employees at the time. Was taken over apperently by another tractor firm, FUB or FUSS...something like that. https://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/schoenebeck/924374_Mali-Spezialfahrzeugbau-ist-insolvent-Keine-Traktoren-mehr-aus-Schoenebeck.html Just click on the translator.

But their main line was common rail injection systems.

No MALI manufactured engine parts and pumps and stuff. They did not manufacture cranes, fridges or heavy plant equipment and it wasn't worth billions. Cortese ran it from his desk at St Mary's for about 2 years.

As far as the BAME susceptibility is concerned it's a known fact, don't know why they need another investigation into it. The Neanderthals and Denisovans didn't go to Africa or the India subcontinent so in those regions their genome is lacking certain virus resistance that Europeans and Eurasians obtained from them. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06940-x

So if you take those ratios and extrapolate them to the UK's population that would give you a bit over 500K cases in all. Although most of these cases don't take the tube or the bus or shop at Tesco's so they may be a protected group and the real number of cases becomes much higher.

Parliament under the May government accepted neither so we didn't really sign up to either of them. Now if that Gina Miller (or whatever she's called) hadn't meddled and obtained from the courts the right of parliament to agree or not agree, the May agreements might even be in function now.

Not surprising really; The football season has become too long anyway. Starts early in August, finishes Mid-May if you're not in the later stages of any European Cup. Then the qualifying rounds for those that are start mid-July.

I'd bet we won't be offering an extra 20% though.

Nevertheless, the club will probably be wanting to get it out on sale to get some money in.

And with about 20,000 cases like that the club will have to refund about 4 or 5 million £. Guess they're hoping that everyone renews and takes "store credit" for next season. Throw on the other matchday non-earnings and I suppose they're about 10-12 million short.

Going through the motions and boosting public moral apparently. Although about 70% of the said public don't seem to give a toss. At the end of the day it's about getting their hands on all of the Sky money they've been contractually promised, because well without it some won't survive.