Prince Charles is a funny man

I was up in Scotland with colleague Richard Sydenham, a Reuters journo who also runs bigstarcricket.com. We interviewed Shoaib Akhtar after the match against India had been cancelled and were left happy with his honesty and quote-friendly answers, despite the media uncertainty over recent doping case.

Read the whole interview here, but here was the best line when he met Prince Charles in Glasgow:

"It was good to meet Prince Charles; he’s a funny man and is a very easygoing person. I met him for the second time, he’s a fantastic human being. He asked me if I have any family in London and I told him that I have been living in England (on and off) for the last ten to 15 years, so he asked if I was brought up with English friends and I said ‘Yes Sir, a bit of my upbringing comes from England'. He also said to me ‘So you’re the fastest (bowler) in history', and I said ‘Yes I am, it’s an honour’. It was good fun and good meeting him."

Scotched

A lack of posts this week from the Nutley, to go with the lack of cricket being played. I've been in Glasgow where the India and Pakistan one-off charity game was due to be played.

All that was managed were handshakes with Prince Charlie from both teams before the rain came down and the match cancelled. A shame for the Clydesdale Cricket Club, who had worked tirelessly for three months to get the game on. If it had been played the following day it would have been played in near sunshine.

Anyway, listen to the podcast of the event as I try and make 10 minutes of audio from a game that never happened.