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The Old Batsman: Cricket at Avebury
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The consolations of a cricketing life. Monday, 22 June 2015. No one knows who they were, or. What they were doing.'. So sang Spinal Tap. Of the druids, and driving past the neolithic majesty of Silbury Hill on the way to Avebury CC, with bleary revellers, blissed-out new agers, wide-eyed truth seekers and bedraggled hippies wading through waist-high grass, strewn in road-side ditches and crashed out by camper vans, it was obvious that our prehistoric past retains all of its mystical pull. I just wanted t...
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The Old Batsman: Alastair Cook: the [relative] evil of banality
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The consolations of a cricketing life. Thursday, 18 June 2015. Alastair Cook: the [relative] evil of banality. Nine thousand runs, 27 hundreds, 114 caps; more runs and more centuries than any other Englishman, the eternal Gooch eclipsed. We must start to consider the greatness of Alastair Cook: the stats alone demand it. Opening the batting in Test cricket should attract stubborn, attritional men: every Gayle or Sehwag or Warner needs their counterbalance. Cook's batting lacks ego - or perhaps more a...
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The Old Batsman: KP: The One Who Knocks
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The consolations of a cricketing life. Saturday, 21 March 2015. KP: The One Who Knocks. Amid the power and the glory of Breaking Bad. Came the moment in season four when Walter White at last articulated to Skylar, his panicking wife, his transformation from terminally ill middle-aged chemistry teacher to badass drug kingpin. Are we in danger? She asks him. Are you going to answer a knock at the door and get shot? I'm not in danger, Skylar." Walt rages at the end of one of TV's great monologues. There is ...
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