Apparently it's just not cricket

First up, apologies to all (both) my readers for the lack of blogging recently. Basically, I've spent much of the last week away from my laptop and have thus found blogging fairly difficult but I figured I'd come back to blog with another post about sport, this time about cricket.

Now, first things first, ScottishToryBoy is not a cricket fan. I do remember having Brian Lara cricket on the Playstation when I was but a youngster and thinking it was a smashing game but I've never really gotten into watching cricket as a sport. Saying that, I am fairly biased towards football when it comes to Sport and don't like many, if any, other sports that much and rarely watch any others when they are on TV.

However, it seems SNP MSP Sandra White has a strong dislike for cricket and has caused a little bit of a storm with her comments over the weekend in relation to the sport. It's perhaps a sad indictment when the only person you can get to support your claims is Bill Wilson - a man famous for standing against John Swinney for party leadership when he was but an activist and wanting all vegetables in Scotland to be packaged with name tags giving the veg their Scottish names. Sandra White has lodged a motion at Holyrood expressing concern at the "wall to wall coverage of the Ashes test series" believing that this is further evidence that Scotland deserves it's own broadcasting channel. Marvellous stuff, it really is. I hasten to add I'm not taking away from the argument that Scotland could have a broadcasting channel of its own but this is clutching at straws when it comes to an argument in favour for one.

Ms. White has a bit of history when it comes to causing controversy after referring to the Union Jack as a "butchers apron" in a press release in the second session of the Parliament but this latest outburst from her is ludicrous. Now, as I've said I don't particularly enjoy cricket but I don't believe that the only sport on TV should be football. I don't particularly like formula one, for example, but I don't really care that it tends to hog TV time on a Sunday. Nor do I like tennis that much and didn't think it merited that much TV time during Wimbledon.

 

I sense this is just a poorly researched piece of work from the Glasgow MSP, after all, more people in Scotland play cricket than play Rugby. I await her motion attacking rugby when the six nations starts...