It's a lock out

The Australian writers who were locked out of the ground in Brisbane need not worry if the media dispute over images and online use makes it to parliament. Old John Howard will surely sort it out. Cricket has a funny habit of making the headlines when it comes to disputes such as this. Perhaps it is the slow pace of the game that allows the splash, as opposed to the Rugby and Soccer World Cups when governing bodies relent and everyone is happy.

The bottom image is Aggers famously reporting from Galle.

A day of Trotts

It really was a day of Trotts for me yesterday: Trott this, Trott that. Let me divulge.

I was working in the Lord's media centre yesterday. During my brief spell up there seven tour groups came through, where the old boys on guide duty talked tourists through the history of the media centre, the eight foot sloping turf and how no one has yet hit the media's glass window (which can withstand a 75mph bludgeon).

It was interesting stuff, each guide mixing and matching their speel but always including one story. Namely Albert Trott, an Australian, who is still the only player to have soared a cricket ball over the famous pavilion when he achieved the feat in 1899. The guides also had a nugget to throw the tourists yesterday as a relation of Albert was going to be playing for England that night. Namely Jonathan Trott, a South African, who came to Warwickshire to further his cricket career and is a family relative.