In the absence of any Z games, I'm going to attempt to let you know what's going on at Cheltenham today. The show lawn features Patel v Carter. On lawn 1 Maugham v Murray is reaching the end of game 1. Wicks v Avery is in game 3, I think.

Maugham has just finished game 1 with a standard tp after Murray got to 4b & 4b v 1 & 1.

Patel won game 1 and is merrily working his way round to 4b on the first break of game 2.

Avery has the innings against Wicks and is approaching 4 with a 3-ball break.

Patel has managed to put both oppo balls in corner 4 for a very tidy contact leave.

Carter has given Samir a shot into corner 4, which he's missed, so Carter should be able to get started on a break now.

The good news is I have a Z game, so I'll pick up the commentary again later.

The big news is that I won my Z game by 14 after failing a tp at rover & rover.

Currently happening:
- Rothman is beating Cumming on lawn 8. He won game 1 with an error strewn 2-ball ending, and is finishing a 5th turn tp to win game 2.
- Maugham is winning game 2 with a tp against Hopgood.
- Patel seems to have been on the lawn a lot against Kibble.
- Ormerod and Tibble are still playing on lawn 5.
- Louise is 1 game up against Death.
- Mulliner is playing someone on lawn 3.
- Wise and Girdlestone are playing a Z game, as are Martin Murray and Steinar.
- Tea is currently being served.

Maugham has jawsed peelee in rover, currently approaching 4b.

Rothman, the croquet equivalent of Mariano Rivera is closing out yet another tp - a straight rover peel required.

He has peelee about 150 cm directly in front of rover with a deepish catcher and a side escape ball. He'll probably aim to peel before running rover (ie not Irish).

He has peelee about 150 cm directly in front of rover with a deepish catcher and a side escape ball. He'll probably aim to peel before running rover (ie not Irish).

He jawsed and half jumped through to the boundary.

Now he has a 30 cm straight rush to peg from the south boundary.

The rush is good and Rothman wins game 2 by 26tp and the match by 2 games to 0.

Maugham also won 2-0 against Hopgood.

Death and Bradforth have just resumed for game 2 after the tea interval.

Patel appears to lining up a straight rover peel to win his game too. It's all happening here.

I have another Z game, so ta ta for now.

Sorry for the rubbish commentary - I ended up playing all afternoon/evening. Turns out Maugham hadn't won when I reported it earlier. Sorry for the confusion. There should be some good matches tomorrow.