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Camden Sports - by STEVE BARNETT
Published: 11 June 2009

Steve Barnett

Despite weather, we could reign this summer

OK folks, here’s your chance to replace The Smug One known as Richard Osley and get your views put into print.
The rules are simple: all you have to do is email us your take on the top sporting stories. You have 250 words to play with, you have to keep it clean and, if possible, we don’t want to hear any more about football! So you’ll have to stretch the imagination a little further. You must, repeat MUST, also remember to include a mugshot picture of yourself.
My sporting highlights this week have been few and far between.
The World Twenty20 Cricket Championships got underway at Lord’s on Friday, and as hosts England found the perfect opening ceremony. Whatever musical dance-fest that singer Alesha Dixon may have been roped into was duly cancelled because of rain.
Just when I thought there couldn’t have been a more fitting tribute to kickstart the tournament, Paul Collingwood’s England managed to prove me wrong by suffering an embarrassing four-wicket defeat against the Netherlands.
To be fair, it was an exciting game, and well worth watching, if only to hear a commentator declare that Holland’s Tom de Grooth “loved cricket more than he loved cheese”.
England still managed to qualify for the Super Eights, and whether you’re a big cricket fan or not, we should all get behind England – after all, during a time of rain and financial gloom, any chance to cheer should be welcomed with open arms.

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