Life is like a cricket match

Forrest Gump said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get - I don't agree. I think life is like a cricket match - it is sometimes full of bang, crash, wallop but it is the long game that is worth playing.

Thinking back over the last year, I cannot really complain about any form of the game. Think England winning back the Ashes at the Oval, think Graham Onions and Graeme Swann holding on at the end of the Cape Town test or that great win in Durban, think Sussex winning the T20 tournament, oh and think of my getting married. (surely the longest long game of them all).

Mr GoodGirlsGuide or CMB is rather into cricket himself - one might say that he is literally the equivalent of a Cricketing Mars Bar - cricket is everything, work, rest and play.

So there we go, cricket now forms even more of my everyday and every day I see more and more associations between real life and cricket life. And it is these asides and these links that I will be writing about, come rain, an innings win and even when bad light stops play.