I've just caught this conversation as my mobile suddenly told me I'd
received a post from Robin Hamilton entitled 'Watching Test Cricket on an
App'. As this turn of events seemed as unlikely as the Pope playing Pogo i
had to to investigate.
For myself, cricketers, like policemen, all look distressingly young these
days. So I can't take the game with the solemnity of a Test match
commentary of old. It was the long slow game of the Empire, on crackling
radio, or written up by CLR James or Cardus. Samuel Becket once played
first class cricket and is the only Nobel laureate to also appear in Wisden
while Pinter was a keen club player.
Long silences, and months on ships.
On 23 March 2017 at 21:37, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Oddly enough, earlier in the evening, mulling variants on the phrase(s),
> "Whatever turns you on," and, "Different strokes for different folks," I
> decided
> that the Canadian version should be, "Whatever strikes your puck."
>
> Serendipity?
>
> Robin
>
> >
> > On 23 March 2017 at 21:05 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > It's a fair audience among the Test playing nations, Doug. We
> cricket nuts
> > value the esoteric jargon. I'm trying to cut you out! I look forward
> to
> > your paean to ice hockey.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 at 2:19 am, Douglas Barbour <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > A lost sports poem, that’s fine, Bill, but although we get the
> loss, &
> > > the
> > > pissed-offness, such as I have no idea what the rest of what you’re
> > > talking
> > > about is…
> > >
> > > Limited audience?
> > >
> > > Doug
> >
>
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
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