However, I did enjoy being my forays into amateur sports journalism, and this blog allows me to keep that up in an area that I will remain dedicated to anyway. Regular readers of BtC (there must have been some of you out there, you just never bothered to subscribe!) will know of my love of cricket and so I decided to focus in on that area with Over the Sightscreen.
As well as dropping in short pieces on stories that have amused or annoyed me, I will aim to put together one "quality" article once a week, to keep people abreast of goings on in the cricketing world, only delivered in my less than conventional (and occasionally less than PC) manner. I really would appreciate it if you would take some time to read things, comment and generate a bit of debate. It really would make my life a bit more interesting for one thing. One rule: if you are reading this from the subcontinent, I could do without the "India is amazing, Michael Vaughan is a wanker" kind of comments. Please try and back up what you have to say with a bit of evidence and thoughtful writing. This isn't YouTube.
In terms of my own cricketing background (so that you are aware of my own biases), I am a more prolific-than-I-deserve left-arm spinner who occasionally gets lucky and scores some streaky runs and I catch more than I drop (just about). My University 2nd XI captaincy record at home is excellent, but shocking abroad!
Finally, owing to the rush hour traffic, I spent my bus journey home today thinking of possible names for this blog. Amongst those discarded were: Silly Point, Backward Point, Top of Off, From the Pavilion End, Beyond the Boundary and The Breaks Are Off. Oh hang on, I actually don't think that last one was me (thankfully I have no responsibility for that aberration of a title!). If you feel I have missed a trick or should change to something else, drop me a line.
Which leaves me to sign off in the style of nuggety former Aussie opener Justin Langer:
From Edinburgh,
RM
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