An exciting passage of play regarding a stapler
Middlesex 149 for 3 (48 overs). Joyce 4, Morgan 0.
Maddy strikes again with a ball only marginally less poor than the one that did for Shah. This one was short and wide, not quite a long hop, and Smith (85, 145 balls, 16 fours), larruped it straight to Botha at point. Another wanton act of self-destruction but Warwickshire are hanging on in there.
Maddy 2 for 8 in five overs. Anyon back on. No Salisbury yet.
As Joyce took 22 balls to get off the mark the cricket became rather pedestrian. But there was an exciting passage of play in the press box when the stapler of the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, out of the blue, required filling. It took three men 20 minutes to execute the task.
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I blame the excess speed with which your fellow correspondent consumed the fayre in the Dollery Restaurant during the break. Often users of small items of office equipment find completing modest maintenance tasks more problematic following excessively rapid nourishment. It can be difficult to close the stapler door after lunch has been bolted.
The main problem was the spring.
For what purpose does the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph require a stapler?
Does he fire staples across the press box to illuminate dull passages of play and keep the rest of you on your toes?
Nothing so dramatic. He, er, needed to attach two pieces of paper together.