It's Just Not Cricket

[MrGongGong]

...and for the rest of us it remains a mystery!

As mrs Fripp used to sing

[french frank]

...and for the rest of us it remains a mystery!

I'm not totally inaccessible. If people have complaints or questions, why not message me?

[ahinton]

I'm not totally inaccessible. If people have complaints or questions, why not message me?

OK, as one of several members who contributed to HS's first thread on this subject, I will indeed take up your kind off to do that in a moment; in the meantime, though, I remain surprised that the disappearance of that thread only a few hours after it was initiated was not accompanied by any explanation or even a post to advise of its closure and/or subsequent deposit in the Diversions thread.

For the record, I am unsure that I have a "complaint" per se at this stage, not least because I have no idea what happened, but I do indeed have a "question".

[visualnickmos]

"I'm Spartacus..."

[ahinton]

"I'm Spartacus..."

But do you play cricket? (and did he?).

Oh, dear; it's just not croquet...

[ahinton]

What really baffles me is why any self-respecting Irishman would want to represent England (or any other country for that matter) in the first place?

The man's Irish for goodness sake ... for him to sing an allegiance to the British crown would be both illogical and utterly nonsensical!

Well done to the man for doing the sensible, diplomatic thing!

I seem to recall that one post of yours that disappeared from this thread and seems not to have been reinstated mentioned a situation in which some might or might not sing Flower of Scotland, to which - had that disappearance not occurred - I had contemplated writing

"even better a different flower of Scotland - not Burns' famous My love is like a red, red rose, but a rose of a different hue (Hugh?), as epitomised in a verse by MacDiarmid set beautifully by Stevenson, that runs

The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet
And breaks the heart.

A flower - and national - though admittedly not anthem material, any more than another equally brief MacDiarmid verse celebrating another colour, though this time not floral and likewise set by Stevenson, namely

Better a golden lyric
Than the soaring castle wall;
Better a golden lyric
That anything else at all.

Anyway, the above digression is, I accept, both on-topic and off-topic, since it's just not (about) cricket!...

[Beef Oven!]

As mrs Fripp used to sing

Mithstery?

[Serial_Apologist]

Frippery?

[teamsaint]

Mithstery?

i always wondered what " Sunder in the mountains" meant.

[ahinton]

Mithstery?

You have such a wicket sense of humour that sometimes creases me up, even if also an over-ly isolationist view of the (so far) United Queendom that might not have seemed out of place during the days of the British Umpire when perhaps rather more British citizens might have considered Europe to be "somewhere else" (and perhaps so far removed, indeed, that the much-vaunted sound of leather on willow would largely have been foreign to it) - the days of yore(kshire), that is, when "bail" and "out" were widely understood as part of cricketing terminology rather than as something that Her Majesty's government did to banks at taxpayers' expense when trying to prevent a "run" on the pound...

[Beef Oven!]

You have such a wicket sense of humour that sometimes creases me up, even if also an over-ly isolationist view of the (so far) United Queendom that might not have seemed out of place during the days of the British Umpire when perhaps rather more British citizens might have considered Europe to be "somewhere else" (and perhaps so far removed, indeed, that the much-vaunted sound of leather on willow would largely have been foreign to it) - the days of yore(kshire), that is, when "bail" and "out" were widely understood as part of cricketing terminology rather than as something that Her Majesty's government did to banks at taxpayers' expense when trying to prevent a "run" on the pound...

That's a full-toss. My understanding of cricket is that full tosses are against the rules Britannia.

[Padraig]

Keeper

[LeMartinPecheur]

That's a full-toss. My understanding of cricket is that full tosses are against the rules Britannia.

Nope, really don't think so. Possibly there is a rule against head-high full tosses aimed to kill the batsman. Though in a gentlemanly way of course AKA the "beamer".

I recall a NZ bowler in the early 70s who got quite a few prestigious England wickets in Tests in this country with in-swinging full tosses that hit the wicket about bail-high. Massey?

[teamsaint]

Nope, really don't think so. Possibly there is a rule against head-high full tosses aimed to kill the batsman. Though in a gentlemanly way of course AKA the "beamer".

I recall a NZ bowler in the early 70s who got quite a few prestigious England wickets in Tests in this country with in-swinging full tosses that hit the wicket about bail-high. Massey?

Bob

[Keraulophone]

Bob Massie was an Australian swing bowler who played in six tests, noted for his 16-wicket test debut at Lord's in 1972.

Sorry, we crossed, TS.