What a shame Richie Benaud isn’t in England enjoying this beautiful weather. Yesterday’s sun was perfect for topping up that brown-as-a-berry suntan (or should that be Bondi bronze?). What’s more, he would have gone absolutely off his face, Bill Lawry style, had he witnessed yesterday’s T20 fixture between Middlesex and Surrey. Of the top five Middlesex batsmen, three made scores of 22 (that’s ‘twenty chew’ in Richie language) whilst another chew made chew.
Gilchrist bowled Arafat 2
Newman caught Goodwin bowled Yardy 22
Dexter caught Arafat bowled Yardy 27 (shame)
Shah caught Gatting bowled Smith 22
Malan not out 22
Incidentally, the number seven batsman, PR Stirling, also made 2; Mike Yardy was man of the match for taking two wickets; and amazingly there were also twenty two extras. Ok, I made up the bit about the extras, but you can’t have everything. Sussex won by 28 runs by the way. Marvellous effort that.
James Morgan
That is remarkable – do you study all scorecards for such a scenario?
It’s just rare intuition mate … and concern for how members of my fantasy team got on. Last year I endured a painful defeat at the hands of my best man. It will never happen again – not while I have strength in my body (and teletext easily available).