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Graveyard for bowlers
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of February, 6 Comments »
Today work begins on the excavation and reinterring of 50 bodies just outside of the field of play. After two years of negotiations with the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Right Rev Peter Price, [Taunton] has won permission to buy a patch of the consecrated ground and turn it to sport.Fifty bodies, which were buried between 1858 and 1888, are in the section of churchyard. No records exist of their names, not even on tombstones which disintegrated in the 1970s.
From The Times, Taunton are excavating a pile of old bodies (well, they’re hardly going to move fresh ones are they?) in a churchyard to extend the outfield. I love stories like these, and Patrick has had a great idea how to make light of it all:
Since The Times is a serious and highbrow newspaper, we would normally be above any puerile punning about the deceased but since this blog borrows much of its attempts at humour from Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, it is perhaps time to follow in the spirit of Graeme Garden et al and announce the late arrivals at cricket’s funeral ball:
David Graveney, Tomb Moody, Kapil Death, Derek Undertaker, John Embalmery, Greg Chapel, Ken Buryington, Adam Gilcrypt, WG (State of) Grace, Dug Walters, Wasim Bury…
Mark Ramprakash is my feeble attempt. And Coffin Miller…(that is truly dreadful, apologies). And Sean Death…
Yours?
6 Comments »Thoughts on Ntini
By Will 5 years ago, at the start of May, 2 Comments »
The commentators – excellent Ian Bishop, and ultra annoying anonymous South African who seems to emphasise the word “five” in every bloody sentence, which is doubly annoying when the score is FIVE for FIVE nine FIVE – are discussing Ntini, and some interesting stats came up. He’s played most Tests against England and West Indies, and those 2 countries share his bulk of wickets (54 and 53 respectively). Interestingly, his bowling average is just 24 against the Windies, but a much higher 30 against England.
And he still can’t bowl a slower ball. They remarked how much of a better bowler he could be if he could add this skill to his repetoire, and I agree. It’s amazing how he runs in and bowls the same deliveries time after time – there really is very little deviation (both in terms of what he decides to bowl, and in lacking much swing). A very good bowler, with the potential to be much better. Will he realise it?
Oh, joy, the seventh hundred has been made (or is that 10? Since Gayle scored 3 on his own) in this match – captain Chanderpaul. Talk about a bowler’s graveyard…
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