Dolphins breaking surface

"But the crowd, like dolphins breaking surface, was soon getting to its feet, struggling into macintoshes and balancing paper hats. Within twenty minutes the players were off - and again there was the vilely familiar spectacle of covers being pushed on, the sky behind the Vauxhall cranes like a damp dishcloth and the atmosphere one of boredom, hope and endurance as inextricably entwined as the colours of the national flag."

Alan Ross describes a stoppage on the opening day of the Ashes Test at The Oval in 1956.

A bit more evocative than "Rain Stopped Play"!