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England’s Ashes Hopes Hang by a Thread

A look at the action on day three in Brisbane and a photo gallery.

Today was the third day of the second Ashes test at Brisbane, and this post looks back at a day that has gone a long way to killing England’s hopes in this series.

EPIC FAIL 1: THE END OF THE AUSTRALIAN FIRST INNINGS

Australia resumed this morning on 378-6, 44 ahead on first innings. Only five runs had been added when Michael Neser was seventh out, and even by the time Alex Carey was eighth out, caught behind off Atkinson for 63 to the give the bowler his maiden Ashes scalp the score was 416, 82 ahead, and not yet necessarily terminal. It was at this stage that Stokes blundered badly. The ‘strategy’ of feeding the senior batter runs so that you can attack the junior batter may have something going for it, though I have never seen it definitively work and have seen it definitively fail, and I am 100% certain that when the senior batter is the opposition number nine, as was the situation it has precisely nothing going for it – attack from both ends and look to get the innings finished quickly. The chief damage done by the partnership that Stokes’ methods did nothing to prevent from happening was not actually the 75 runs that accrued, but the fact that they were together for more than a full session, pushing the start of the England innings ever closer to happening under the floodlights. Starc reached to top individual score of the innings, 77, before he was ninth out, caught by Stokes off Carse to give the latter possibly the most undeserved four wicket haul in test history. Even the last pair boosted the score by a further 20, and soaked up yet more of the daylight. England began their second innings just before the second interval, when they would have started the day hoping to be in before the first interval.

EPIC FAIL 2: A GRUESOME BATTING DISPLAY

The England second innings began quite well, with Crawley and Duckett making it through to the second interval with their stand unbroken. The first wicket was a genuine misfortune, Duckett being bowled by one that kept low to make it 48-1. However none of the subsequent dismissals could accurately be described as due either to misfortune or particularly good bowling – it was a display of rank bad batting. With 90 on the board Pope aimed a big drive at Neser and succeeded only in hitting a return catch which was duly accepted. Seven runs later Crawley was dismissed in an almost action replay of the Pope dismissal – same bowler, same type shot, same outcome. The two Yorkshiremen Root and Brook took the score to 121 before Root played loosely st Starc and edged behind to go for 15. Two runs later Brook, also on 15, drove casually at Boland and edged behind to put England five down. It got worse before the close, as Jamie Smith played yet another loose drive, this time against Starc, and Carey was once again in business behind the stumps. Stokes and Jacks made it through to the close with no further damage, but at 134-6 England are still 43 runs short of parity. By my reckoning 13 of the 16 wickets England have lost so far in this match have been given rather than being taken.

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My usual sign off…

The First Two Days in Brisbane

A look at the first two days of action is the pink ball test in Brisbane, and a photo gallery.

Having covered Tuesday’s auction I now turn to something else. Early yesterday morning UK tine a day-night test match got underway in Brisbane, the second match of the 2025-26 Ashes series. England had lost the first match by this same stage, so the fact that I am writing about a match that is still in progress is an improvement.

ROOT THE ALL TIME GREAT

Even before the events of this match no one seriously doubted that Joe Root was a great batter rather than merely a good or even very good one, but there were certain Aussies who would deny him the status of an all-time great because he had a blot on an otherwise stellar CV – he had never scored a test century in Australia. There seemed small chance of England having anything the celebrate when Root’s innings began – Duckett and Pope had both fallen cheaply, and the score was 5-2. Zak Crawley came back well from his pair in Perth, making an impressive 76 and sharing a century stand with Root. Harry Brook looked highly impressive in making 31, but his dismissal when he should have gone on to a properly big score was a shocking one, not just because the shot was one he should never have taken on, but because he did so against Starc, the only genuinely dangerous bowler Australia had. Stokes gave Root some support but got out before long. That brought Jamie Smith, facing a pink ball for the first time in his professional career (apparently it was not worthwhile to send him, and others in the same boat, such as Will Jacks, in for the injured Wood – a batting all rounder who bowls off-spin in for a specialist pacer – to Canberra to play in the President’s XI match) to the crease. Smith collected a duck to put England six down, and bring Jacks to the crease. I had to leave for work at this point, but a later check confirmed that Root, in the 70s when I left, had finally scored that first century on Aussie soil and removed any possible doubt about his status as an all time great. His best support after I had left came from number 11 Jofra Archer, who made into the 30s, and would be last out for 38 early this morning UK time. England amassed 334, Root with 135 not out being the person who made that total possible.

AUSTRALIA SO FAR

England produced a very variable bowling performance, and the fielding was far too fallible. Four clear-cut chances went down, Duckett culpable on two occasions to go with his duck, and Joe Root in the slips got a hand to ball that streaked away for four, though it would have been an absolute screamer of a catch had he held it. Brydon Carse took three wickets in the course of the day and had a chance shelled, but he was also absurdly expensive – at one stage he was leaking runs at a rate that would have raised eyebrows in a T20 league, and even by the end of the day he had 3-113 from 17 overs. Australia were 291-3 at high water mark, but then Green and Smith both fell to Carse very quicky. England got one further wicket in the day, but in the latter stages as they started to show obvious tiredness Australia got on top once again, ending the day on 378-6, 44 runs ahead on first innings with four wickets standing. England are not out of this yet – come the fourth innings the pitch will be very tricky, but they need to bowl well first thing tomorrow, and then bat well for the rest of tomorrow and well in to day four.

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My usual sign off…

A Pink Ball Warm Up

A look at events at the Manuka Oval, Canberra, where The Prime Minister’s XI have been taking on ‘An England XI’ on day one of a two-day pink ball day-night match.

A two-day match of sorts, between ‘The Prime Minister’s XI’ and ‘An England XI’ got underway at Manuka Oval, Canberra early in the afternoon local time. It is a pink ball day-night match. The ‘of sorts’ in the first sentence relates to the fact that in spite of their official teams both teams will use more than 11 players in the course of the match.

A LIMITED LOOK AHEAD

None of the players involved in the test match are involved in this game – England have a shadow squad, dubbed ‘The Lions’ in Australia and it was from them that their team was picked, while the Prime Minister’s side is a combination of promising youngsters and old stagers (the oldest being 41 year old Peter Siddle). However, there was news about Mark Wood that suggested an extra fast bowler would be summoned to Brisbane.

HOW THE PLAY WENT

The Prime Minister’s XI won the toss and batted first (incidentally Mr Albanese was not present in person to watch his side – he had a very important commitment elsewhere). Matt Potts bowled a good early spell, but gained no reward. Josh Hull, a 6’7″ left arm pacer picked on account of his physical attributes rather than his playing record, which is rather modest, bowled a spell in which he pounded the ball in short to a field set for that type of bowling, which failed to impress anyone. Sam Konstas gave his wicket away for 36, giving Potts a catch of part time medium pacer Tom Haines, when no one else had made any impression on him. Thereafter Campbell Kellaway and Nathan McSweeney batted well together. Kellaway missed out on a century, going to a catch by Tom Haines off left arm spinner Tom Hartley for 82 to make it 130-2. That brought 19 year old Oliver Peake to the crease, and he also batted well, helping McSweeney to add a further 91 for the third wicket. McSweeney was the one to go, being well caught by Ben Kellaway (an allrounder, who in the manner of Jemma Barsby can bowl both off spin and left arm orthodox spin) off Potts. It was also Potts who got Peake, shortly after the youngster had reached a fine 50. Thereafter wickets fell more rapidly as the Prime Minister’s XI hustled towards a declaration. This eventually came at 308-8, and left An England XI five overs to see out against the new ball under the lights. Tom Haines and Emilio Gay did this well enough, reaching 30-0 in the process. It was an intriguing day, and we will see what tomorrow brings. Tongue’s pace will almost certainly tell in his favour when it comes to summoning a replacement for Wood to Brisbane, but I finish this section by emphasising that Potts was definitely the better bowler today.

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My usual sign off…

Marizanne’s Masterclass

A look back at today’s WBBL match between Brisbane Heat and Melbourne Stars, and a photo gallery.

Today in the Women’s Big Bash League Brisbane Heat played host to Melbourne Stars at Allan Border Field in a game that had been scheduled as late-night fixture (coverage starting at 9AM UK time) because it was seen as being a kind of ‘dessert’ after the main meal of day three of the test match at Perth. However, some Kamikaze batting by England and a great innings from Travis Head (go here for more) meant that there was in point of fact no day three in Perth, so this match became the main event.

THE STARS INNINGS

Melbourne Stars won the bat flip and opted to bat first. Brisbane Heat’s captain Jess Jonassen was not unhappy about this. Heat had lost all four of their games this edition, so desperately needed a win. At first they looked absolutely certain to get that win, as they tore through the Stars top and middle order, reducing the visitor’s to 44-6 at one point. At that stage South African veteran Marizanne Kapp was joined in the middle by young English bowling all rounder Danielle Gibson. They launched a spirited revival, putting on 73 together, of which Gibson’s share was precisely 30, from 24 balls, ending when Nadine de Klerk trapped her LBW. Georgia Prestwidge scored 3 (7), but such was the devastating fusillade from Kapp at the other end that the eighth wicket stand yielded 43 in 2.5 overs! This briefly opened the possibility of a Kapp century, but even batting as she was by then time was against her, the final over being already underway. In the end she finished with 93 not out from 51 balls, including nine fours and five sixes, in a Stars total of 171-8.

THE HEAT REPLY

Heat started far better than Stars had, with Grace Harris and Charli Knott putting on 50 for the first wicket, a stand that ended when Sophie Day pinned Harris LBW. Jess Jonassen now promoted herself to number three, when Georgia Redmayne would probably have been a better choice there. In the eighth over Kapp’s medium pace provided the second breakthrough, Harris being caught by Danielle Gibson to make it 56-2. Chinelle Henry looked dangerous, smashing two sixes in the space of three balls in the ninth over, but off the last ball, immediately after hitting the second of those sixes, she went big again and was superbly caught by Kapp for 13 (8) to make it 74-3. Jonassen never really looked like justifying her decision to bat at number three, and in the 12th over she was caught in the deep by Georgia Prestwidge off Day for 15 (14)to make it 92-4. Four balls and three runs later Nadine de Klerk took on McKenna and Prestwidge again got underneath it to make it 95-5. Georgia Redmayne and Lauren Winfield-Hill shared a decent partnership, but they were never up with the rate, and Redmayne’s dismissal left Heat needing 40 runs to win off just 3.1 overs. They never got remotely close, and it was only a four hit by young fast bowler Lucy Hamilton off the final ball of the match with the result long since settled that even enabled Heat to top the 150 mark. The final margin was 18 runs. Marizanne Kapp with that thunderous 93 not out, 4-0-31-2 with the ball and a superb catch was the only possible candidate for Player of the Match, and was duly so named. The Stars now sit third in the table, while Heat, after seven successive seasons of making the knockouts now know that they will not be extending their season this time.

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My usual sign off…

I rarely photograph pigeons but I thought this one with the distinctive green neck patch was worth making an exception for.
Triangulation, ornithological style – two egrets and a gull form the corners of a triangle in the Great Ouse.
The old (Custom House) and new (an art gallery/shop only a few years old) juxtaposed.
A low sun shining on the Great Ouse.

D(eepti) Day for India in Navi Mumbai

An account of events in Navi Mumbai today where India won the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, beating South Africa by 52 runs in the final. Also a photo gallery.

Today was the final of the Women’s ODI world cup, between India, who had chased down an Australian total of 338 to win their semi-final, and South Africa who had thrashed England by 125 runs in their semi-final. This post looks back at an amazing day.

RAIN DELAYS THE START

It started rainy in Navi Mumbai, but the delay was not long enough for any overs to be lost. It was long enough for the BBC’s Team of The Tournament to be publicly named. The selection methodology used by those who set up this poll was questionable, and some of the voters (it was the final result of an online poll) must have had little idea of what they were actually voting for. The single most shocking detail of this team was that collectively the users of the BBC website’s cricket section did not find a place for Deepti Sharma, who came into this final as the leading wicket taker of the tournament and scorer of two half centuries with the bat as well. I named my team in this post and modified it after the first semi-final in this one, and it is my contention that I did a better job than the collective efforts of the voters on the BBC website. TMS commentator Daniel Norcross was every bit as unimpressed with the omission of Deepti Sharma as I was by the way. When the toss finally happened South Africa won it, and unsurprisingly opted to bowl first.

THE INDIAN INNINGS

India started superbly, but did not quite keep the blistering momentum going. Still, in a final a score of 298-7 looked formidable. Shafali Verma made a career best ODI score of 87, and Deepti Sharma weighed in with 58, becoming the first player ever to score three half centuries and claim 10 or more wickets at a single edition of the world cup. Richa Ghosh produced a powerful 34 near the end to give an innings that had been faltering a late lift. Ayabonga Khaka took 3-58 from nine overs, while left arm spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba had the most economical figures, 1-47 from 10 overs.

TWO DIFFERENT CONTESTS

At one end India were working their way steadily through the South African batting order, while at the other Laura Wolvaardt batted with absolute authority. A big moment came when Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur called up part time spinner Shafali Verma as seventh bowler, and was quickly rewarded with the wickets of Sune Luus and Marizanne Kapp to make it 123-4. Sinalo Jafta yet again demonstrated the she is NOT, repeat NOT, an international number six, making 16 off 29 balls, which caused the RRR to climb to 7.5 an over. Annerie Dercksen came next and made a spirited 35 before Sharma, whose day this was becoming, bowled her with an absolute jaffa to make it 209-6. The decisive moment came 1.4 overs and 11 runs later, when Laura Wolvaardt, who had just followed her magnificent 169 in the semi-final by also clocking up three figures in the final, went big against Sharma and was well caught by Amanjot Kaur for 101 to make it 220-7. Twice in the group stages Nadine de Klerk had won South Africa games that looked lost when they were chasing, so some hope remained for South Africa. Three balls and one run later Tryon was given LBW, and a review did not save her. That left de Klerk to attempt to knock off 78 more runs with two rank tail enders for company. On the last ball of the 44th over Ayabonga Khaka, who should have known the de Klerk was desperate to retain the strike and would run almost no matter what failed to back up properly, and Deepti Sharma’s throw beat her to the wicket keeper’s end to make it 246-9. The first two balls of the 46th over, Sharma’s 10th and last were dots, but off the third Nadine de Klerk went aerial and picked out Indian skipper who accepted the chance, giving Deepti Sharma her fifth wicket of the innings and 22nd of the tournament, easily the most of anyone. In the end Verma, with 87 off 78balls and 2-36 from seven overs was named Player of the Match, while Sharma with 215 runs and 22 wickets across the tournament was a shoo-in for Player of the Tournament, making the failure of users of the cricket section of the BBC website to select her for Team of the Tournament look even more egregious than it had before the start of play. Full scorecard and other details here.

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My usual sign off…

Warm Spell Brings Out the Insects

November in England is not generally noted as a prime time for insect sightings, but a combination of warmth and sun brought them out today.

I mentioned yesterday that it was unseasonably warm. The trend continued today, and unlike yesterday, which was virtually unremittingly grey, it has been sunny for much of today. The combination of sun and warm temperatures has brought the insects out in some force.

THE FIRST SIGN

The very first picture I took this morning was a portent of things to come…

A blurry picture of an insect on a green leaf. The tree, to which this leaf is still attached, is on the private road that runs behind my house.

THE FIRST HUGE SURPRISE: A BUMBLEBEE

It was during my second walk of the day, in the early afternoon that things really became strange for an English November (which month we are now into remember). In the Kettlewell Lane woods I spotted a large bumblebee, not a creature that one normally sees at this time of year in England.

A large bumblebee at rest on a big green leaf. In the bottom left of the picture as you look is a fly, large by the standards of such creatures but significantly smaller than the bee.

A RED ADMIRAL

Walking on the path alongside Bawsey Drain (the section between Losinga Road and Columbia Way) I was given another way off-kilter sighting – a Red Admiral Butterfly. Given its physical state it may possibly be a freakishly long lived survivor, but to see such a creature around in November is frankly ridiculous, and more than a little disturbing.

A red admiral butterfly resting against a wooden fence This one is in very poor physical condition, with major damage to its wings.

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My usual sign off…

The first of three good pictures I got of last night’s half moon.
A hover fly on a leaf (see next pic for a closer up version)
A squirrel on a tree trunk.
A wasp and two flies on a tree trunk.
The bumblebee.
Hoverfly on a thistle flower.
The first of three shots of the Red Admiral

India Men Flop in Melbourne

A look back at today’s T20I between Australia and India men’s teams at Melbourne and a large photo gallery.

There is no women’s world cup cricket on at the moment – yesterday saw the second semi-final of which I was unable to catch a single ball due to being at work. It must have been a classic game, with India chasing down 339 with nine balls to spare. This morning UK time there was a T20I between the Australia and India men’s teams and this post looks back at that match.

INDIA FAIL IN MULTIPLE WAYS

India were in trouble early, crashing to 32-4, and never really recovered. India also showed a chronic lack of game awareness and tactical nous. The only Indian batter to play with real fluency was Abhishek Sharma, who produced a gem of an innings, but also only had the strike for one-third of the deliveries bowled during his innings (37 balls faced out of 111 bowled). As an indication of how much this cost India he scored 68 off those 37 balls, while the rest of the batters managed 57 from the other 74. The innings lasted one ball after his dismissal – Bumrah wanted a run off the ball in question, Varun Chakravarthy failed to respond, and that kind of mix-up leads to only one result, which duly happened here – J Bumrah run out 0 (1). Thus India had a beggarly 125 to defend, which was never going to be enough on a pitch that offered bounce but could not be described as difficult to bat on.

Although Bumrah took two late wickets to lend the match a veneer of closeness, reducing that side of the margin to a mere four wickets the truth of the scale of the home side’s win is better illustrated by the fact that they took a mere 13.2 overs to chase down the runs, thus doing the job with exactly one-third of their innings to spare. Being English I have to note that if the test pitches in a little while offer a bit of bounce then England, with the phalanx of express bowlers they have named in their party, will be delighted.

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This is a large gallery, and reflective of weather that cannot quite seem to make its mind up. Today, though mainly cloudy and with odd spots of rain has been almost absurdly warm for the end of October in England – the outside temperature is still officially 15 Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) at 5PM…

Before today I had only ever seen gulls making use of this discarded tyre, but this old Grey Heron clearly found it a useful vantage point.

Women’s World Cup 2025 Team of the Tournament

I pick my team of the 2025 Women’s World Cup. Also two photo galleries.

There is no cricket today – the group games are done and the semi-finals happen on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Therefore, as the first of two posts I am doing today (the third to last image you will see in this one provides a hint as to the subject matter of the second post) I shall be naming my team of the tournament.

SELECTION CRITERIA

I am picking chiefly based on what has happened at this tournament, and as usual I am considering overall balance as well as player quality. Also, although I could probably have safely done the lazy thing and just named Australia en bloc I have not done so.

THE XI IN BATTING ORDER

  1. Smriti Mandhana (India, left handed opening batter). The stylish left hander has had an excellent tournament, including a magnificent century against new Zealand that helped India to seal their spot in the semi-finals.
  2. +Alyssa Healy (Australia, right handed opening batter, wicket keeper). Before injuring her calf she had been in superb form, twice making run chases, one large and one not so large, look absurdly easy by scoring commanding and rapid centuries at the top of the order.
  3. Beth Mooney (Australia, left handed batter). Australia were deep in trouble against Pakistan, and it was Mooney, helped first by some defiance from Kim Garth and then a sparky 50 from Alana King, who dug them out of it with a century.
  4. *Sophie Devine (New Zealand, right handed batter, right arm medium pacer, captain). Although bowing out of ODI cricket in a blaze of glory has not happened for the Kiwi legend it is not any fault of hers, she has personally had a very good tournament.
  5. Annabel Sutherland (Australia, right handed batter, right arm medium fast bowler). The leading wicket taker of the tournament, and although she has done less with the bat a 98 not out when her side had been reduced to 68-4 chasing 245 against England was a crucial effort in that department.
  6. Deepti Sharma (India, left handed batter, right arm off spinner). She has had a superb tournament, being second on the wicket taking list and having scored some useful runs.
  7. Ashleigh Gardner (Australia, right handed batter, off spinner). Two centuries (one from number six, one from number seven), both made with her team initially in a bit of trouble, and has bowled well.
  8. Shorna Akter (Bangladesh, leg spinner, right handed batter). Two cheap three-fors with the ball and a maiden ODI 50 with the bat. I have placed her lower in the order than she has been batting for Bangladesh because they are a weak batting side and my view, that 50 notwithstanding, is that at the moment she is actually a bowling all rounder, rather than the batting all rounder that her position in the Bangladesh order suggests.
  9. Alana King (Australia, leg spinner, right handed batter). Even if she had done nothing else all tournament, which is far from the case, her destruction of South Africa when she rewrote the record books with her figures of 7-2-18-7 would have earned her a place in this XI.
  10. Sophie Ecclestone (England, left arm orthodox spinner, right handed batter). The fact that she is England’s joint leading wicket taker, with 12 scalps, in spite of missing one match due to illness and bowling only four balls in another due to a shoulder injury speaks for itself.
  11. Marufa Akter (Bangladesh, right arm medium fast bowler, right handed batter). Has shown herself to be an extremely skilful operator in conditions in which most teams, including her own Bangladesh, have gone in spin heavy.

This side has great batting depth and a wealth of bowling options – only the top three in the order won’t be used as bowlers, and everyone down to Ecclestone, scheduled to bat at ten (who might be promoted and sent in to swing for hills if it was close to the end of the innings) could offer something with the bat.

PHOTO GALLERY ONE

RESERVES/ HONOURABLE MENTIONS

My first reserve, on the grounds that she can replace anyone other than one of the openers without weakening the XI is England’s Natalie Sciver-Brunt, right handed batter, right arm medium pacer and shrewd captain. I also want a reserve opening batter, and my choice there is Laura Wolvaardt of South Africa, a right hander. My third choice of reserve is Linsey Smith of England, left arm spinner and brilliant fielder. Her ability to take the new ball, which she has shone doing this tournament counts in her favour. To round out the squad I name a reserve seamer, Indian right arm medium fast bowler Kranti Gaud, who with the one exception of taking a pounding at Australia hands has had a very fine tournament.

The only rival to Mandhana for the left handed opener’s slot was Phoebe Litchfield, but she has not been quite as good as the Indian at this tournament. As well as Wolvaardt who I actually named as a reserve, the other South African opener Tazmin Brits deserves a mention. Marizanne Kapp has shown no signs of fading powers at this tournament, but I could not name her ahead of either Sutherland or Devine.

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My usual sign off…

This Ghost Ship was part of Sunday lunch, at the Bank House immediately prior to setting off the activity that forms my next post.
This Great Bustard provides the clue to the subject of my next post.
Three egrets together by the Nar Outfall, this morning.

James and Sons’ March Auction

A look back at James and Sons’ march auction and a large photo gallery.

James and Sons had their March auction of Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. This post looks briefly at an eventful two days.

BIDDERS OUT IN FORCE

Between the-saleroom and easyliveauction there were 331 online bidders following proceedings, in addition to a few people actually present at James and Sons and one telephone bidder. This wide interest was reflected in the hammer prices with many items doing remarkably well. Lot 168, which I had bid on on behalf of my parents, was just one item that went way over estimate, in this case climbing to £50 when expected to get no more than £30. Though personally disappointing it was professionally satisfying as not only were the images mine, it was also largely down to emails from me that so many people had advance knowledge of the auction.

The highest price gained by any single lot in this auction was for a cigarette card lot, number 539, which fetched £900…

Overall it was a very successful auction.

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My usual sign off…

Parts of it Were Excellent

A mention of the start of the Six Nations rugby tournament and a large photo gallery.

The title of this post borrows the tactful response of a curate served a bad egg by his vicar. It refers to England’s first match in this year’s Six Nations rugby union, which was against Ireland in Dublin yesterday.

A TOUGH OPENING FIXTURE

Ireland won both the 2023 and 2024 tournaments and are bidding to become the first side to win this tournament three times in a row. France had hammered Wales in Paris on Friday evening, and Scotland had beaten Italy earlier yesterday. England played very well in the first half and had a handy lead at the interval. In the second half Ireland found their mojo, and England wilted under increased pressure from their hosts. In the end only a late try scored long after the result was settled secured England a losing bonus point. Ireland are thus off to a winning start, while England must regroup, though the latter do have the advantage of having three home matches to play.

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Today has been bright and sunny, albeit still cold (there was an overnight frost which hadn’t completely cleared when I went out for the first time, and I have a fine photo gallery to share…

Today’s photos start here.
The Lynnsport Railway in service.