This weekend saw the first match of the new season for the Swinging Googlies Cricket Club and, as ever, I was looking forward to it. Breaking with Googlies tradition, I had been practicing through the week to try and improve my bowling. The type of bowling I attempt is wrist-spin and I tend to send them down with a fair bit of flight.
From a personal perspective, although not taking myself too seriously on the cricket field, I do want to better myself and so it was my ambition to actually be allowed to bowl this season.
It was around over 25 that Chris Judd, our captain, called on me to take over the bowling. I was naturally a tad nervous as one doesn't want to make an eejit out of one's self. I'll let Ron Googly's official match report take over from here: And then, just for a short moment, time stopped still and a hush fell upon the park as Chris called up Tommo to send down a few. Well, the words ‘revelation’ and ‘blimey guv’ come to mind as Tom transfixed all and…
From a personal perspective, although not taking myself too seriously on the cricket field, I do want to better myself and so it was my ambition to actually be allowed to bowl this season.
It was around over 25 that Chris Judd, our captain, called on me to take over the bowling. I was naturally a tad nervous as one doesn't want to make an eejit out of one's self. I'll let Ron Googly's official match report take over from here: And then, just for a short moment, time stopped still and a hush fell upon the park as Chris called up Tommo to send down a few. Well, the words ‘revelation’ and ‘blimey guv’ come to mind as Tom transfixed all and…