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Cricket on the radio; and tombstones
By Will last year, mid-July Add your comment below
Not sure what Zoe Williams is on about here, but I like sporadic thoughts appearing out of nowhere. My brain operates in a very similar fashion. For example, this evening, I’d just finished cooking a delectable meal of jacket potatoe and tuna, when I thought it was about time I told my flat mate about where my descendants came from, and that last year I took a stroll around a Cornish village where they all lived in the seventeenth century and found tombstones bearing not only my surname, but several with my first too. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen your name on a tombstone.
The technical words and phrases in cricket are not, as I previously averred, totally self-explanatory, even to people who don’t know what colour grass was. Some of it is genuinely obscure. A person who can listen to ball-by-ball commentary and actually picture what’s going on has accrued some expertise over the course of his life, not just wasted days and days feeling tense and staring at a wall. I think it’s pretty clear that there’s something up with my ears, but for a large part of the last Ashes test I couldn’t even work out which side was supposed to be cheating, and which side had been so ungentlemanly as to mention it.
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