As
I promised recently, I'd like to tell you about the thoroughly pleasant day I spent at
New Road last week. The match was a warm up to the
Ashes and featured
England Lions verses Australia. Not being too flushed for cash at the moment I'd chosen to attend only the second day of the four day test. This turned out to be fantastic timing for a number of reasons. Firstly, the weather was stunning. Not a cloud in the sky most of the day and a top temperature of 31°C according to the thermometer atop the new
Graham Hick pavilion.
Another reason was the fact that Australia only had two batsmen left after close of play on the first day. Once they had been dispatch fairly promptly I had nearly a full day to watch England in action.

As you can see I also remembered to take my camera to attempt my first try at Sports photography. Unfortunately a hangover gave me a rather unsteady hand so I didn't get as many good shots as I'd have liked but I was pleased with most of them. It's great because Worcester is not a huge ground and so with the help of my trusty zoom lens I was able to get some fairly good close-ups.

A highlight for me though has to be spotting
Nasser Hussein exiting the
Sky Sports commentary box and walking right past me. This time I managed to quickly train my camera on him for the shot below. I wasn't as lucky with
Michael Atherton sadly as he moved much quicker than I did.