hi

One of the funniest quotes I heard on the cricket field was many years ago when I had just got into my club's First Team. We were chasing a big score and we still had many runs to get when the last man joined me. Geoff was a veteran who had played many years for the club.

At this time we didn't play overs cricket but by time. Geoff came to me in the middle of the field and told me to "shut up t'shop". He told me that we were to play for time so that the opponents couldn't bowl too many more overs.

There was a fast bowler who came off an extremely long run to bowl at him and as he ran up to bowl, Geoff walked away from the wicket and walked down the pitch and patted down an imaginary pitch mark. He did this a couple of times and did various other antics to slow down the play. With each ball the fast bowler was getting more and more annoyed. His line & length became erratic as his face got redder and redder.

As the bowler stomped back to his mark to bowl the last ball of the innings, Geoff shouted so the whole ground could hear it, " Hey Mike, I don't go that far for my holidays."

The bowler blew it chucked the ball straight a Geoff who ducked and it went over his head and to the boundary. The umpire who had had enough of this didn't call "no-ball , so we got 4 byes and drew the game.

Cheers

MikeL2