Blowers said it had come up but it hadn't. Having been reminded of birds I texted the Seville holidaying early bird worker with the news that her Captain Courageous not for the first time was fine tuning a Captain's innings without breaking sweat.
I turned on Sky then went to Twitter to find out the story of the morning. Not brillo, especially as Prior has reached the second highest score of the England innings by the time the sun has crept around to the conservatory through the lounge to reflect off the lead piping. Professor Prior is not Plumb despite vehement appeals and remains on 40.
264-5 at tea. Aggers reads out the day's batting. A little later during the tea interval TMS play the highlights of the innings to date. I tweet off a thanks to Aggers and the TMS producer.
Aussie fanatics had better watch out as Elvis' mate told me last night at the Curry and Dosa in Gravesend that he fancied going on the next Ashes Tour. Even the Aussie players might be in for a shock.They will be used to chants from The Barmy Army but to receive a torrent of verbal abuse from one of the greys might put the wind up them.
I haven't heard whether the leader of our Barmy Army has changed his name or his appearance yet. Anybody know? 292-5. 38 to go. I've got time to think about a picture to go with this post. The lovely Lizzie has done a lino print called 'calm'. That's what it is here, and that's what we want in Ahmedabad.
I'll ask her if that would be okay. She said it would. What do you think? They are available, and as I've earned ony £0.68 this month from advert clickers I'm beginning to worry about how I'm going to pay for the Aussie Tour, especially if Lizzie has to come as Elvis' mate's minder. Talking about deficits this one is down to 23.
Blowers reads out the bowling figures during the drinks break. He deserves an Oscar, I mean an Ojha. 16 behind as a pigeon flies over the top of the stand according to Henry. Calm it is but Cook is knackered. Once the deficit is cleared, psychologically Cook may be destroyed. Perhaps that's why 'Calm down dear' Cameron may not really want the deficit to go.
Sky show some stats on the telly about highest individual scores by visiting captains in India. The TMS commentator reads some of them out, makes an error and is corrected by their scorer who probably has a better view of the screen and gets praised by the TMS commentator for his attentiveness. Credit where it is due and we are now in credit.
Activity is detected on the The England Bench as they raise their Bowling Coach from his slumbers.'Get in the nets Monty' is what the the lip readers wanted to see. 'And make sure thee've got thy pads on' is what Sir G would have added.
Can we last? Can Captain even more Courageous keep going? A double figures lead. Who is going to be first to mention Botham's Ashes? The answers are 'Maybe, Yes and me'.
See you tomorrow. I may have to replace the Early Bird as the earliest riser to be in on the action and be in with a chance of a reply to my tweets. I'll give her a text
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