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” with superior facial furniture to sustain him”
I think that’s the best crickety sentence I’m going to read today. Marvellous, KC.
I liked – “Batting isn’t like triathlonnery, but it is tiring and it does go on a bit.”
A friend of mine invented the triathlon when we were young. He was swimming in the canal when he saw a pushbike on the towpath, so he got out and nicked it, and then ran off when the police came. He was pretty tired out after that, and he didn’t have a moustache. I can’t imagine what doing a full triathlon with a moustache must be like – the weeds that must get caught in it during the initial canal swim would slow you down considerably, almost certainly resulting in a conviction for theft. So well done Graham Gooch.
That might result in a conviction, but we were always told that swimming in the local canal would result in Weil’s disease.
I once had a dream (although Spiderman didn’t feature…) that finished with me looking at a cricket scorecard. On the scorecard it became clear that Chris Gayle had beaten Australia singlehandedly in an ODI chasing 350 – Gayle getting all 350. Clearly he is capable of great feats.
Nothing could live in our local canal, not even bacteria, so we were quite safe.
I was a bit disappointed to see that no one had left a comment on your Gooch post, so I’ve left one.
Your cricket memory is clearly much like ours, Double D.
Highly inaccurate despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
Not just my cricket memory I’m afraid.
Goochy has just bobbed up saying the English are not here for the beer, sun or beaches. Same as they weren’t in 1991.
Would 333 be “the number of the radioactive beast” after one half-life had elapsed?
Perhaps 668 could comment on this important factor. Or failing that, perhaps Bruce Dickinson would care to express a view.
You said it right Fred (!), it is a tired old statement of the bleeding obvious. I mean, who the hell ever goes to Australia for the beer. People leave Australia for the beer.
Gooch shouldn’t play down the beaches. Four years ago, the legends beach cricket competition, in which Gooch captained England, was the most important cricket tournament being played in Australia.