STUmpcam re-badged

Just over three years ago something inspired me to start a blog. I was toying with the idea of an I.T. blog (coz there aren't many of those!) and thought a cricket blog might be a fun thing to try, you know, for practice, before starting the real thing.

That was just a couple of months before Australia headed off on what was bound to be a token Ashes defence - you know, waltz over there, smash the Poms, keep our name on the Urn...business as usual.

In the English summer that ensued, interest in cricket and cyber-activity in particular went into overdrive. My next door neighbours yappy french poodle could've started a cricket blog that got hits in those days. So it was STUmpcam that survived.

It was supposed to be about Test Cricket, but I never really stayed true to that. STUmpcam quickly filled up with impromptu off the top of my head posts, sledges and rants about whatever I was thinking about at the time.

For me, interest of late has waned a little. Then I sat down one Saturday afternoon and caught a day's play from the first Test (I think it was) between NZ and England. Now, statistically speaking, it wasn't the best two sides in the world playing, but as I soon realised, this was Test Cricket. I continued to watch...and I tuned in again the next day. This, I thought...is what it is all about. With no real allegance to either side, (although it would be "un-Australian" not to love seeing the Poms go down!) I sat fascinated for the next couple of days.

This would be the catalyst for change at STUmpcam. "Change" back to what it was originally supposed to be about.

Then today, a similar thing happened, as I nursed a sick 4 year old, I caught highlights of Sri Lanka versus the West Indies from the Queens Park Oval (Port of Spain, Trinidad). To see the West Indies, stumble to 2 for 24 then chase down about 250 in a match they thoroughly deserved to win, finally forced my hand.

So STUmpcam has had a face lift, In keeping with the Test Cricket theme, I've gone for predominantly white, with a bit of Red and Green.

Ill still watch the one day stuff, and heaven forbid - maybe even a Twenty20 or two, but unless it somehow related to Test cricket, it's not going to hit the "pages" of STUmpcam.

Enjoy...