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Date Posted: 10:51:31 05/19/05 Thu
Author: cant
Subject: My Sunday
In reply to: jaf 's message, "class innings of compusure" on 03:56:09 05/16/05 Mon

Last Sunday I did an old associate a favour and helped him out playing for his little team. Good enough to drive some of my fellow players to the game, the journy passed fairly well, except for the to be expected aged Sunday drivers, staggering along the road, choking the flow of traffic generally causing much aggro among the common road user.

Upon getting to the ground however my hopes were raised! Our spritly skipper, all decked out in his layers of jumpers and Bradmanesqe bunnet, had won the toss! Sadly this advantage was chucked away after he inserted them on a rock hard belter and hence the runs flowed like curry out of a nuns arse.

Come lunch a sizeable total had been set and in seeing this skip sent in the big boys at the top of the order to fight the good fight whilst he ran off down the order. Disipline was required and indeed some was shown as after a few early wickets a stand was set allowing for the possibility of a unlikely win if the lower order fired. Sadly they folded, and appart from the amusing thrashings of said number 11 against a varity of pure pie chuckers little entertainment was to be had. Throughout one young pup's hard earned knock not once reverse prod or chip to mid-on was to be seen. Indeed he even refrained from making any ludicrous 'seein it like a fitba' refrences. Refreshing!
>
>His pathetic throwing of the ball back to the bowler
>between balls almost always ended up with the shine
>being scuffed off the ball as it rolled or bounced
>along the deck.
>
>Then a strange thing happened at tea, he was silent,
>quiet, there was no irritating fizz in my ear. I could
>not believe it and scanned the room to see if he was
>sitting somewhere with a plate of his favourite food
>silently munching his way through it but only then did
>I realise this silence was in fact down to the fact
>that he was nowhere to be seen. Yes he had skipped
>tea, not to psyche himself up for opening the batting
>but instead to eat all Souskas (?) red giant jelly
>babies meaning I got the sloppy seconds equivalent of
>orange ones . Damn.
>
>So having yet again irritated me, where could it go
>from here. Well remarkably, things took a dramatic
>upturn. Not since buying my 21 DVD Laurel and Hardy
>Collection have I been so amused by the comic antics
>of anybody. Fizz raced onto 5 with a mixture of false
>shots and dropped catches. He then spent the next few
>over middling the ball into his own feet regularly.
>Then there was the assured running between the
>wickets, diving into the same end that another player
>was standing and expecting them to run all the way to
>the other end. Pure class innings.
>
>It must be those blue gloves. Slazenger Liberty's
>arent they?

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