Julius Malema, Kanye West and Serena Williams are my new favourite three and have just won a paid up holiday for themselves to my Infectous Island. Julius, just cos he is the definitive idiot and had another brace of bad publicity, apparently taunting and assaulting a neighbour, during a shindig he was holding at his Sandton home, and the other two for their part in the folly which was the MTV music award ceremomy and the US Open Semi Final respectively. Disgraceful.
One league race under the belt and already controvesy abounds and funnily enough it involves the same group of cyclists all of last seasons controvesy and ill tempered outbursts came from, formally Sotherby's Vets team. It's amazing how this group of individuals manage to attract so much negative exposure for themselves and through their ridiculously impetuos and child-like behaviour, have become the village idiots of vets Cycling in the Western Cape. Shame. Like attracts like as far as I'm concerned. What an unpleasant lot.
Our RBS race team had a disasterous start, with one member not starting as he had a family emergency and two of the four who started had punctures, so has effectively ruled us out of the team competition on day one. The race itself was ok, with one section of dirt of about 1.8km, where the split in the bunch came. I led Keith out at the finish and he managed to sprint and get third place. I got about 6th or 7th, but by the time I got over the timing mats, was 17th. Same time as the front guys, so no matter. The hill climb on the 24th will decide the league, so hopefully we will have a good showing as a team.
I am travelling up the Knysna today to do some riding with 2 of my team mates, which incorporates a long weekend. The weather looks good on Windguru,so hopefully we will get in some mileage. My friend and Dutch National Cricketer Mauritz van Nierop tragically passed away a year ago this week and shall spare a thought for him on Heritage day. Hopefully there will be a couple of Weddings shortly to compliment all the funerals I have been to this month, 3 in all. Not a great stat.
Graeme Smith won the toss on a wicket which looked grass-less and could only help the spinners in the second innings (only Murali and Mendis) and still chose to bowl. I knew already South Africa was in trouble. Having not had any competitive cricket since May, the area which is most vulnerable to opponents is the bowling, and the match consistancy of line and length was sadly missing. After 9 overs, with Sri Lanka on 70/1 I had seen enough rubbish to warrant a game of beach bats on Camps Bay with my old friend Derek Lloyd. We played for 90 minutes and after being 2 stroke wonders to start, not being able to get anything going, the longest rally was 88 shots, 5 short of our 14 year record of 93. Not bad for a winter recess and no bats. Such a pity that we don't get to do that often like in the days of the 90's when we had nothing else to do between bar shifts and cricket practices.
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