Edgbaston, August 06: There comes a time in a sportsman’s life when he knows he has made it at last.
For Graham Onions that moment may have arrived when he took two Australian wickets with the first two balls of the second day at Edgbaston last week and sent the crowd into expectant raptures.
On the other hand, it may be the revelation that the pop chanteuse and archetypal modern gal Lily Allen has become Onions’ biggest fan. “I think,” Ms Allen said the other day in a Twitter message, probably after seeing those two wickets, “I’m a little bit in love with a man called Graham Onions.”
This should be wonderful news for the suits trying and so far failing to save Test cricket. Not only is she besotted with the Gateshead swinger, who has apparently replaced Andrew Flintoff at the height of her affections, but with cricket in general.
–Agencies