Two out of three...

I don’t often have a bet… on anything. But on Friday I thought I’d have an accumulator bet on Serena Williams winning at Wimbledon, then Andy Murray lifting the cup, then France beating Portugal on Sunday evening. The odds wouldn’t have been very good; I just felt confident in the results. In the end I forgot to place the bet.

I got two out of three right, and the ‘bet’ was still on after 90 minutes of football. Then Portugal scored in extra time and broke French hearts. Right, that’s the tennis and the football out of the way. It’s time for cricket to fire our imaginations for, oh, about three weeks, until the football league begins again…

The Peoples Republic of Crickhowell...