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Double counting a la Gordon Brown or acceptable spin?
16/07/2007
Busy week. Two by-elections, closing of nominations for our London mayoral candidate (yes, I believe Boris is standing) and the launch of
Stand Up Speak Up, our campaign to get people engaged in our policy process.
Given all this it was a treat to spend an entire day on Saturday doing something I don’t think I’ve done for at least two years: play cricket. More surprising – it didn’t rain for the whole day. Even more amazing - I scored a half century and my team (playing for my brother’s pretty motley 11 against an equally ragged friend’s 11) won. Ok so most of the bowlers were either under 18 or over 50, but I’d call that a crack combination of youth and experience.
I don’t want to echo the John Major line about lengthening shadows on cricket pitches and nuns cycling through the mist, but there is something particularly magical about playing on a village pitch on an English summer’s afternoon. Pity we can’t have a few more of them.
There was a bizarre rule that a six hit over one particularly short boundary, because of the trees, hedges and corn field and likelihood of never finding the ball, would count as minus six against your own and the team’s score. I managed this feat and so am counting my total as 58 not out, rather than 52. Come to think of it I could add back the 6 itself and call it 64. Pretty soon I’ll be getting towards a 100. Double counting a la Gordon Brown or acceptable spin? You decide. But that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Posted by srfielding 16/07/2007 14:22:34
Subject: Brown's rules
DC if Brown was playing he would have altered the rule half way through (at the end of his innings!)
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