I'm dreaming of a white hamster
It is raining now. Umpires Harris and Illingworth are ambling round the square, assessing. Cloud all around but not that thick in places so the players can't relax yet. They might still have to get out and play a bit more.
Only some excellent cricket or collusion can salvage this match from stale-mate over the next two days.
The occupants of the press box, champing at the bit to do more work, are instead wrapping their grey cells round this one: Which two Warwickshire players made their maiden centuries in the champo against Sussex at Edgbaston in 1976?
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
What a white hot summer that was ....
I wont spoil the fun ..... the answer is here....
http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1976/ENG_LOCAL/CC/
Any sign of that Rugby ball ? :-o
No rugby ball. Drizzle. Pitch fully covered.
One day, when I'm even older and even greyer, I'll look back and think: Blimey did I really spend all those hours and hours and hours and hours at cricket grounds not watching cricket?
The sky up here at 5-ways is looking very steel grey and threatening. I wouldn't want to put any money on a restart this evening.
What did you journos in the press box do to occupy yourselves during extended rain breaks before the age of the internet Brian?
I spy with my little eye something begining with "C"?
Brian, who was the third cathedral? I remember Judith Durham from the Seekers - did she have a relative who came over for a while? Peter York? There was that Winchester bloke, who invented a gun. (Chelmsford Friday, New Zealand)
Unless it was the Bishop of Liverpool, but that's cheating.
Howdy, RR...Napier!
Raggy - I wasn't a reporter before the age of the internet. Honest!
From memory I recall Geoff Humpage and Bill Bourne making centuries in a big stand against someone around that time. Was it them ?
Spot on, Sorrento. Good effort.