Ah, they looked just as fast to me too. There were lots of 'class things' in
cricket then , still are to an extent, but they tended not to be in favour
of Brummies, of whatever literacy. Gentlemen and Players, y'know.
Ironically, in C.L.R. James, the class and race ridden sport of cricket
produced a Black Marxist writer of distinction. The imagined deity has a
recherche sense of humour, what what?
On 22 May 2010 23:28, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Picky, picky, picky -- sure as hell looked looked like 150 miles an hour to
> me when they chucked the bloody thinng at you, giving every impression that
> they were seriously intnent on snapping off your googlies.
>
> Maybe this is a class thing, and Brummie illiterates likr you had the wind
> tempered from the shorn lamb.
>
> *I dunno.
>
> Robin
>
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> Subject: Re: Cricket poem prize details
>
>
> I somewhat seriously doubt if anyone at school could have bowled at 150
>> mph,
>> Rob. MIght have seemed like it though. (Fast bowlers at Test Match level
>> occasionally pass 100 mph - and that only recently. Usually speeds in the
>> 90
>> mph level are only peformed by the very top rank of professional bowlers
>> at
>> their best)
>>
>> On 22 May 2010 20:37, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I hated cricket at school dangerous hard ball I ws always long stop -
>>>
>>>> fortunately escaped to athletics
>>>> Patrick sportsman of the year a long ago year but after the last ice age
>>>> (I
>>>> think?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yeah -- serously dangerous territory, with a lamp of leather approaching
>>> your head at 150 miles an hour -- sod *that for a joke.
>>>
>>> E.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of andrew burke
>>>> Sent: 22 May 2010 09:47
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: Cricket poem prize details
>>>>
>>>> USA is a member of the ICC, by the way, so you can enter as far as I
>>>> can see - although I haven't read the fine print. ('The big print
>>>> giveth and the small print taketh away' as the great poet Tom Waits
>>>> sang.) Only in beach cricket would you see a white bikini <g> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> On 22 May 2010 14:34, Catherine Daly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> so could it "be cricket" if someone, say, in the US, were to write a
>>>>> book
>>>>>
>>>>> of
>>>>
>>>> cricket poems, and have a mailing address somewhere (residence)?
>>>>>
>>>>> if she were a woman and not wearing a white bikini and full pads and
>>>>> standing in front of a fan (the air blowing kind)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, wiki says, "2007 Netherlands
>>>>>
>>>>> women<
>>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_national_women%27s_cricket_te
>>>> am>
>>>>
>>>> became
>>>>> the tenth women's Test nation when they made their debut against South
>>>>> Africa
>>>>>
>>>>> women<
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_national_women%27s_cricket_t
>>>> eam>."
>>>>
>>>> and these aren't the men's test at all....
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> All best,
>>>>> Catherine Daly
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andrew
>>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>>> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
>>>> http://www.picaropress.com/
>>>> http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
>>>> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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