It was good to get away from league cricket . Read the last post to see just what a lot of berties league cricketers can be. At some stage I’ll show you the letter/pack of lies written by Barnet Barclay’s to the Middlesex league. Thank god I tape some of these games. The mendacious boghouse banisters didn’t know it was all on film.
The following Saturday I sought out schoolboys to bully on a flat track. Easy prey yeah. Except the deck was full of snakes and I got out-thought by a schoolboy medium pacer. The new ball less than 8 overs old in a declaration game and coming off ma bat crisply, this kid bowled me a bloody good slower nut; the type where the arm comes through at the same pace but the ball is just a few yards slower; not the loopy Franklin Stephenson version but still a well disguised bit of trickery. Damn! Another kid watching too much one day and IPL nonsense. When I was young, you were always told not to bat like Richards or try anything the pros did. Coaches are wollies aren’t they? These days they encourage kids to try things; well they do at Marlbrough it seems.
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