It's quarter to three in the morning ...

[blamebrampton]

And I cannot go to bed as the last wicket is still to fall.

I know that Americans, Canadians and many Europeans are unable to fathom why we care so much about the Ashes. It's akin to a war, mixed with the Olympics, mixed with the bedrock or national pride.

I will say that the Australian team can hold their heads high at the way they have doggedly fought through this innings. Now if they could just lose so I can go to sleep!

ETA: THEY DID IT! THEY DID IT! WHO NEEDS SLEEP? Bless you Flintoff, you are a gem.

Comments

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

um...is this cricket?

(yes i know. my american is showing.)

[alienor77310.livejournal.com]

Sleep well :-)

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Goodnight!

[cassie-black12.livejournal.com]

Can't believe they won. I too plan to dream of Stuart Broad - and maybe Freddie Flintoff, too.

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

get some sleep - you have a lot of people to annoy in the morning!

[complications-g.livejournal.com]

:DDD!

[glorafin.livejournal.com]

I was convinced you were Australian, but no real Australian would jump from joy when their beloved country lost the Ashes, so now I'm confused.

(and your fantasy Estonian citizenship does not help :)

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

I confess that cricket remains shrouded in mystery to me, but had I known that they let pretty boys like Mr Broad play I would have been more attentive.
*cheers for England*

[feralcheryl.livejournal.com]

bah.
I knew I shoul

[feralcheryl.livejournal.com]

Bah.
I knew I should have put $100 on England when the bookies had the poms at $5.25 and the aussies at $1.25.
*mutter mutter bloody poms mutter mutter*

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

I am ridiculously happy that England won the ashes. :D

[rubyemerald-1.livejournal.com]

Well. Can't say i join you in the celebrations. I'm FURIOUS with Ricky Ponting for being run out. I'm FURIOUS with Freddie Flintoff for recreating the crucifiction every time he did what he was there to do, and I'm FURIOUS with the wicket for being drier than the Simpson Desert. Now, if you'll excuse me, I too have some daydreams to create concerning Stuart not-so Broad but ever-so -tall.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only I had thought at 10 pm last night that we might get eight wickets in the afternoon! I was completely expecting to get up this morning and find we had the last couple of wickets to get, and then I could watch us win.

Ah, well. Hope you had a good day's celebrating. :D

Stuart Broad

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

For the last coupld of years I haven't really paid that much attention to the cricket (a game which I understand really well). Anwyway so after reading throught your comments I decided to google this Stuart Broad, and this is what I found.

http://worldcricketwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/england-cricket.jpg