Just a thought

Come on you must have a reason why? Are you insinuating that I don't understand the finer elements of the game?

Perhaps he thinks you make a silly point?

Is that a 'silly mid off' point?

Nuff said.

Been there, done that.

Think it was the fact that my Dad used to watch Cricket non-stop when I was a kid, with the sound down on the TV and the Radio 4 commentary on..............bored me senseless and I think that I have been traumatised by it ever since.

Funnily enough, my sons agree with you.

I just remember all those times I could have been watching Battle of the Planets and he was watching Cricket........in the days when having more than 1 TV was a luxury

I've never heard of Battle of the Planets, but I bet it was less violent than Freddie Truman.

Battle of the Planets...............G FORCE!

How can TMS have bored you senseless? It was the soundtrack to my childhood summers. The "old guard" in particular (Arlott when I was a nipper, Johnston, Mosey, and latterly Agnew ) possessed some of the most wonderful turns of phrase, and there was something beautifully mellifluous about the slightly waffly timbre of a Radio 3 TMS broadcast on a summer's afternoon. My mother, not the world's greatest cricket fan, used to enjoy listening to the other stuff they talked about - the red buses, the pigeons, the cakes... it can be almost more entertaining during stoppages than when there's cricket taking place.

When I hear clips of them now I find it fascinating/funny/calming but as a teenager it was incredibly boring

Tut. I look forward to lengthy debate about the degree of threat posed by a cloud approaching the Oval from the west. And comparisons to that other cloud at Headingley in 1972.

Season 2 ended a few weeks ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ashestoashes/

I do believe there is a third season in the works.