Thanks Sheila, Patrick. Looking forward to being an armchair spectator in
the fourth Ashes Test starting in Manchester tonight, our time.
Bill
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 5:23 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> ha takes me back 65 years thanks Bill P the hopeful swiper often misser!
>
> On 04/09/2019 01:09, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Sorry, Doug, cricket again.
> >
> >
> > Whereas there exists
> >
> > a vast array of shots open
> >
> > to a batsman of calibre -
> >
> >
> > the imperious cut shot,
> >
> > the swashbuckling sweep,
> >
> > the full-blooded drive,
> >
> >
> > the pull shot, the hook,
> >
> > the subtle glance,
> >
> > the flick, the nudge even -
> >
> >
> > only two shots
> >
> > were available to me:
> >
> > the block and the hit.
> >
> >
> > Just wanted to get
> >
> > bat on ball. The lurch forward
> >
> > or the lash out.
> >
> >
> > The other option
> >
> > denied mugs like me
> >
> > was the leave,
> >
> >
> > the assessed ball
> >
> > rocketing towards you
> >
> > or digging in and jagging
> >
> >
> > to leg or off, the delivery
> >
> > dismissed as unthreatening
> >
> > treated with a disdainful
> >
> >
> > shouldering of arms or simply
> >
> > sniffed at. Unreachable wides
> >
> > don’t count as leaves
> >
> >
> > We mugs we just
> >
> > stood before stumps
> >
> > blunting or swatting
> >
> >
> > Who’s to say
> >
> > we didn’t have
> >
> > just as much fun
> >
> >
> > bw
> >
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