anecdotes to share on those long hot summer days in the pavilions with
a pint, bemoaning the changes to cricket rules and colours..."these
young uns just dont know what cricket is...sigh; its just not cricket
anymore...", i hear me say :)
I wasn't too shabby with the bat either, though i confess i never
batted higher than 6 in a serious game; back then i knew i'd be
wearing prescription glasses soon :) I dont remeber my highest batting
score, but i remember the match well, it was a varsity match, i was
facing a very tall, very quick seamer; his fist few deliveries whizzed
past my off stump while i raised my bat and got on the front foot;
"what great judgement", everyone must have thought; truth be told, i
didn't see much of the line of the ball till the wicketkeeper had the
thing. Well, the next ball was a vicious bodyliner, first glimpse i
had of the thing was off the seam; too late to look composed and
elegant, so i did the next best thing (well, my subconscious did); my
bat flew at the line of the ball, one handed, i heard true contact,
and a great roar of applause; i looked round to square, and the ball
was sailing majestically over the boundary. I thought to myself,
"that's probably your best strategy, matey; beacuase, you really ought
to have gone to specsavers!".Lol. I believe i scored a respectable
50+ runs; dont remember much of it; i do remember the great appeal for
caught behind; didnt bother looking back or at the umpire before
walking; you just know when you've had a damn fine run of luck! :)
Oh, the days...
On Aug 2, 4:41 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes it really did seem that lethal Para - the ten wickets fell
> for 7 runs. The following year, again in the last game of the season,
> needing to tie to win the championship we were 120 for none chasing
> 130 with me due to bat at 4. I was on nights so asked the skipper if
> I could shower and get ready to leave early. He gave me the nod.
> Wickets started to fall quicker than trousers in a brothel and I had
> to pad up again. I got in at the 7th wicket down with us needing one
> to win, smashed my first ball just wide of cover. He ran out the
> other guy, leaving me off strike. My best mate came in, walloped his
> first ball and was caught at long on. We crossed, so I had strike on
> what was now the last ball. The scores were tied, leaving me either
> to score one to win or get out so it was a tie and not a draw. The
> bowler had taken four wickets in the last over, plus the run out. I
> charged the ball and swear the non-striker was passing me as I screwed
> up the slog and dropped the bat on the ball and sprinted to the
> bowler's end. I think I made it anyway, but the ball missed the
> stumps. The rain, which had held off all day unleashed and I was
> soaking by the time I got back in the pavilion. You got the back foot
> raider right - for most of my scoring shots - I'd have been your bunny
> with that in-ducker. I bowled 13 consecutive maidens in the first
> game mentioned before taking the first wicket - a pre-arranged quick
> one with the keeper down the leg-side for a stumping. My execution
> was dismal, the ball a foot wide of off, taking a bottom edge and
> resulting in the best keeper's catch I've ever seen. I was bowling
> off-breaks by then. The last ball of that game is recorded as leg
> before, though the batsman would disagree as he thought he'd glanced
> it for four. We offered to rescind our appeal after the match, but
> their skipper declined on the grounds the other team that would have
> won the title were a bunch of slimy toads.
>
> On Aug 1, 9:20 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Wow Archytas, that must have been one heck of a strip...10 wickets in
> > 8 balls...amazing.
>
> > I used to be a pace opener, with a late outswing starting at middle,
> > seaming just short of a length, four slips, a deep gully/point, and a
> > short square leg; my party trick was the shade slower, fuller, 1 late
> > inswinger of the over, just the trick for back foot raiders like
> > yourself :) Great days indeed...takes me back to a time when i was
> > just 12st or under :)
>
> > On Jul 31, 10:06 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I played at a 'tidal club' Para - as far from the sea as you can get
> > > in England, but tidal nonetheless. Very hard to describe the 'tidal'
> > > conditions, but it would all start with the kind of rip-snorter Swanny
> > > got in the current Test. When I was still young enough to bowl chin
> > > music we'd have the other side's batsmen remembering urgent
> > > appointments and driving off without taking their turn. The trick at
> > > these times was to bowl slower and just let the pitch spit the ball at
> > > the poor sod batting. When batting you had to give up playing forward
> > > and only play square of the wicket to get runs - the game was turned
> > > upsidedown. We beat a few county sides on that track thanks to the
> > > 'tide'. The tide seemed to be inspired by using the heavy roller at
> > > tea. Great days. We won a championship on the last day on a tide
> > > pitch after the opposition were 72 for none chasing 80 to win.
>
> > > On Jul 31, 9:06 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Sold! I'll take them all! Lol.
>
> > > > On Jul 31, 8:35 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > There's a lingerie football league and beach volley ball, etc.
> > > > > Seriously, sports are often a ballet of form and extraordinary display
> > > > > of what the body/mind is capable of. It's real- versus paintings or
> > > > > statues of nudes at a museum. And the horses! :-)
>
> > > > > On Jul 30, 7:31 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Err, yeah...might depend on the sport in my case, rigsy :)
>
> > > > > > On Jul 30, 8:31 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Also football uniforms. Well, we are admiring bodies and physiques in
> > > > > > > sports, aren't we? :-)
>
> > > > > > > On Jul 29, 2:39 pm, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > I've always thought that baseball players have an interesting sense of
> > > > > > > > dress style, rigsy; somewhat "hugging"? :)
>
> > > > > > > > On Jul 29, 2:21 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > We have baseball. :-)
>
> > > > > > > > > On Jul 28, 4:42 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > Lol. Yeah, i've seen some innovation in rugby, for sure.
>
> > > > > > > > > > Well, cricket is one sport that i am passionate about (at least as far
> > > > > > > > > > as i can be passionate about sport). It's at once a game of supreme
> > > > > > > > > > patience and incredible reaction speed. You have the batsman who, with
> > > > > > > > > > the right "guard" and standing perfectly motionless, is practically
> > > > > > > > > > impenetrable, against a bowler and 10 strategically placed teammates
> > > > > > > > > > who patiently and cleverly induce the batsman to make a "false" stroke
> > > > > > > > > > with ever so subtle changes in the speed, flight, movement, trajectory
> > > > > > > > > > and/or spin of the ball. When it happens, it can be a beautiful
> > > > > > > > > > thing :)
>
> > > > > > > > > > On Jul 28, 7:23 am, Allan Heretic <dehere...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > Until I came to Europe I never was a fan of any sport, since I have become a fan of rugby ,, ever since I watched a man fall on the ball with the other team piled on top. But his legs were sticking out of the pile. So his mates (6) grabbed his legs and used him like a wheel barrow. As for cricket,, I have never gotten it wrapped around my mind.
> > > > > > > > > > > Allan
>
> > > > > > > > > > > On 27 jul. 2011, at 17:42, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > I thought that Relativity was pretty revolutionary, actually; less
> > > > > > > > > > > > "fundamental" than perhaps String Theory, but frame shifting for sure.
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > So, you're a rugby man, eh? I'm more cricketer myself; all that
> > > > > > > > > > > > physical contact would have strained my control beyond breaking
> > > > > > > > > > > > point :)
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > Btw, your ballet's not at all lacking :)
>
> > > > > > > > > > > > On Jul 26, 5:35 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > >> The point, Para, is not that Einstein is bull, but that interpreting
> > > > > > > > > > > >> Relativity as 'new physics' always was. I did my dancing on the rugby
> > > > > > > > > > > >> field so you can expect my ballet to be clumsy! Chemistry is more my
> > > > > > > > > > > >> line, but Ludwig and Snell satisfy me that the 'paradigm' stuff is
> > > > > > > > > > > >> wonky. I suspect we are collectively very dumb as an alternative to
> > > > > > > > > > > >> enlightenment concepts - most people don't learn much. Thus they
> > > > > > > > > > > >> remain prey to the Old One. Indeed, it's the propaganda of the Old
> > > > > > > > > > > >> One that prevents enlightened society, aimed as it is at the dumb. I
> > > > > > > > > > > >> believe this may be what leaves us with only the worst of democracy.
> > > > > > > > > > > >> There has been no enlightenment,only some space developed away from
> > > > > > > > > > > >> the old Idols.
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >> On Jul 26, 1:01 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> Not sure of what you mean. Do you want e-books to be controlled in
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> content? Take history, for a long time it was written by the winners/
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> colonists, etc. until the "losers" started publishing their stories/
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> recollections. A good example is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee".
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> There are countless books/ personal confessionals (St. Augustine,
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> Newman, C.S. Lewis, etc.) that have inspired others- perhaps readied
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> them for a personal journey of their own. The "enlightenment" is not
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> always religious/spiritual- there are the arts of man/women which also
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> inspire an individual/society. There is also propaganda and deceit as
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> a path to power.
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>> On Jul 25, 11:13 am, Allan Heretic <dehere...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>> LOL. Yeah I am still here,
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>> Enlightenment is a fascinating subject, to me it always will be an experience(s) yet there are may book thumpers thumpers can sight article and books many volumes justifying what they have to say. When you get discussing enlightenment you begin discussing personal experience not that of others.
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>> Putting it simply in my opinion your personal experiences will stand on their own ..
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>> Allan
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>> On 25 jul. 2011, at 16:30, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> Thing is archytas, though i dont altogether feel "on board" with your
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> critical insights, your arguments are resonant and very persuasive :)
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> Nice pirouette with "optimism" :)
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> You think Einstein's work was "bull"? Steady archytas, we have the one
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> "heretic" here already...alan? :)
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> Thanks for the insights.
>
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>> On Jul 24, 6:12 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > >>>>>> That's more or less what I mean
>
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