TUESDAY 22nd FEBRUARY
Walked over to the Plumpton Shopping Centre and bought a new camera case, after taking Reilly for his morning constitutional in the park. When I got back the terrible devastation wrought in Christchurch by the earthquake was all over the news. It was only a couple of days ago that I got an e-mail from Scott in Dunedin asking me when I was planning on coming over and I told him I was flying into Christchurch on the 28th April. The devastation looked quite horrific, and the Aussies were quick to send over emergency teams to help with locating survivors. The news stated the tremors had reached as far as Dunedin - Scott's home town.
Come the evening it was time for the Holland v England World Cup Match. We watched it up to the end of the Dutch innings, and I cannot recall a worse England fielding display for a long time. Apart from the dropped catches and mis-fields, Anderson and Pietersen running towards each other and then stopping dead in their tracks as a skier from Holland's top scorer fell between them (he was on 49 at time as I recall and went on to get 117) was a schoolboy howler. Matching it was England only having three players in the inner circle when Broad bowled the Dutch skipper, only for him to be recalled as the delivery was declared a no-ball. Collingwood was the guilty party trying to scramble into the inner circle after the ball was bowled. What has happened to all that superb fielding we saw in the Ashes? This was pathetic. Robert set the England reply on record enabling us to go to bed just before midnight. We shall see how England got on chasing down nearly 300 to win in the morning.
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