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Loading ...If England’s battered bowlers don’t fix themselves in the next few weeks, don’t be surprised to see him playing against Sri Lanka.
But would he ever play in the Ashes, the real cricket as the English put it? :p
Jon Lewis – never knowingly underbowled
By Will 4 years ago, mid-April Add your comment below
Cripes, that’s the best headline I’ve ever come up with. I’m sure that my cavernous conscience has retrieved it from someone else but sod it. It’s mine now. In fact, anyone not living in the UK won’t even know why it’s so good. I’ll shut up now.
Moving on. Jon Lewis, the England and Gloucester wobbler. Jagadish, known here as Jag with a vague and irrelevant nod to the once great British auto manufacturer, has chosen him as his English target for the summer. Last year it was Ashley Giles who bore the brunt of his ridicule, and Giles then proceeded to bowl rather better than most people thought possible (including dismissing Australia’s top eight at least once? I think that was the stat-famouse). I’m not suggesting Lewis will have the same effect on this summer, but Jag is unfair on him.
Marcus Trescothick has just made me nearly roll on the floor laughing. He was dismissed twice in a day against Gloucestershire.
Jon Lewis, an unlikely star last year when England thrashed Australia in the Twenty20 game, trapped him in front twice!
King Cricket wonders if he is a forgotten man.
Umm, I don’t know. I didn’t even remember him!
Now, Lewis is never going to take 200 Test wickets for England, or even 100. But he’s a fine county bowler, and absolutely lethal in early season conditions. If England’s battered bowlers don’t fix themselves in the next few weeks, don’t be surprised to see him playing against Sri Lanka.
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9 Responses to “Jon Lewis – never knowingly underbowled”
April 20th, 2006 at 11.53 pm
April 21st, 2006 at 12.12 am
What’s your point?
April 21st, 2006 at 12.20 am
It was meant as a joke but since you asked..
As Sri Lanka are crap in swing conditions, England could afford to play a John Lewis versus them. But unlikely versus Aussies in a test.
So despite all the dangerous bowling Lewis can muster in the early county season, Jagadish is within his right to laugh about Lewis getting Trescothic twice in a day I feel.
April 21st, 2006 at 6.31 am
Yes that is a top notch headline, Will. You’ll make a great subbie one day.
April 21st, 2006 at 1.44 pm
I mean, seriously, I didn’t even recall his name until I read the reports about Tresco’s double failure and Lewis being the chap who got him out. Then I read King Cricket’s title and I reckoned “Hey, how can I forget someone I don’t even remember?!”. It also then struck me that he played a fairly major bit part [an oxymoron!] before last year’s Ashes!
April 21st, 2006 at 6.06 pm
Great headline… cricket does have its fair share of sitters, too, with Mustard, Onions, Willey, Holding, etc…
off-topic but on a similar note, I’ve just spotted a couple of cars side-by-side in a Chelsea garage with the number plates “2 Be” and “Not 2 Be”. Worth thousands in anyone’s money, I reckon
April 21st, 2006 at 7.40 pm
If the Ashes were played in April and May in England, I’d play him. If Hoggard and Jimmy A were injured that is.
April 22nd, 2006 at 12.21 am
Nick, I don’t suppose there was a third – a bastard offspring, perhaps – with a reg of “That1s theQ”…? 
April 22nd, 2006 at 2.37 pm
If this is the same Jon Lewis that has crappy hair spectacles then I’m inclined to agree with Jag.
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