I had a dream last night and no it wasn’t that sort of dream before the smut minded among you start letting your imagination get the better of you.
No I had a great dream about cricket, a dream where Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff were playing with style and panache, slog sweeping, pulling, driving and cutting a steady stream of Australian bowlers to the boundary as England won the Third Ashes Test in Perth in spectacular fashion.
I woke up with cheer only to find that I’d left my bedroom window open and that I’d been dribbling in my sleep. I frantically reached for my radio alarm clock and turned the volume up to see if my dream had been real....
It hadn’t, England had lost the Ashes with a whimper, the Aussies were crowing in their post-match interviews and I sank back into my cold, damp pillow and sobbed quietly to myself!
Actually, the last bit isn’t quite true, I didn’t cry, but I did struggle to get back to sleep, which was annoying. I eventually drifted off to be haunted by nightmare visions of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath.
If there is one obvious small cause for comfort it is the fact that those two are highly unlikely to return for another Ashes series in England in two-and-a-half years time.
England’s tormentors-in-chief will surely have headed into retirement by then and arguably the greatest bowling pair in the history of the game will be confined to highlights during rain affected Tests of the future. They will be joined by Adam Gilchrist and Justin Langer as Australia try to rebuild a side.
In contrast, England’s team will remain virtually intact as we look to regain the tiny little urn. Alastair Cook, Ian Bell, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Steve Harmison, Andrew Strauss and Andrew Flintoff will - form permitting - still be there. If he is fit, so will the greatly missed Simon Jones
Even 30-somethings like Paul Collingwood, Matthew Hoggard and, injury-permitting, Michael Vaughan will also still be around.
I can still dream that, in 2009, England will gain their revenge! After all, what is life without a few dreams? Boring, dull and depressing that’s what it is.
For now, however, if anyone wants to give me their reasons for why things have gone so badly wrong Down Under now is your chance.
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