We had heard that the day would be cool this morning but warmer with sun this afternoon. The organisers even had a dispenser with free sun block. Unfortunately, we never came close to needing it.
There’s no way I thought about putting a scarf on my list of items to pack, but Gwen very cleverly gave me one as a birthday present, which I opened a couple of weeks back, so was delighted to have one to wrap around my neck!
We were shivering with the cold this afternoon, but with true British grit stayed at the ground until 19:15.
Even Daniel Vettori, Blackcaps skipper, kept his arms out of the cold on a pre-match inspection.
Cricket fans will know that the ICC is trialling a system whereby teams can put in three requests per innings that the third umpire looks at video evidence to question an umpire’s decision on the field - rather like the referrals in tennis. We saw this in action for the first time today, although one was upheld on Thursday.
This is Jesse Ryder who was scoring reasonably before he was out to Powell for 89. While play was delayed, though, some of the team came out to give autographs, and he took pity on a poor old lady at the back (me!) and gave her his signature.
Jean
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