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A Breathless Hush (opens the original)
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Vitaï Lampada, Henry Newbolt’s famous cricket-based poem begins:“There’s a breathless hush in the Close to-night—Ten to make and the match to win—A bumping pitch and a blinding light,An hour to play and the last man in.”The Notcher's Natter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-
Tom is quite Abell (opens the original)
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Sports fans like a good streak (or ‘freak’ as John Arlott may have said). Joe di Maggio’s 56 game hitting streak is one of the great magical numbers in baseball. Edwin Moses’ 122 consecutive 400m hurdles wins seems unthinkable. Streaks don’t even have to be perfect: Joey Chestnut won 16 out of 17 Hot Dog Eating contests. When Lou Gehrig played his 2 000th consecutive Major League Baseball match it would have been preposterous to think that might be beaten, yet Cal Ripken jr extended it to 2 632.
Who needs Bazball? (opens the original)
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It is lunchtime on the first day of the Lord’s Test. The score is 122-3 in 25 overs. Duckett 56*, Crawley 0, Pope 12, Root 35 and Brook 14*. The chatter during the break boils down to “Bazball, huh!”. 122-3 off 25 overs was the score on day 1 of the Lord’s Test yesterday, except that it was Mandhana 56*, Verma 0, Bhatia 12, Rodrigues 35 and Kaur 14*. Wh… Read more
Kane was quite Able (opens the original)
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Very few players have the opportunity to choose the timing of the end of their international careers. Kane Williamson, Ben Stokes, and now, Tammy Beaumont, have recently managed to do this. Williamson joined the growing trend of not bothering to get to 10 000 Test runs before pulling the plug. The first 11 men to reach 9 000 Test runs all went on to 10 000, but now four of the next eight have retired before reaching the rounder number mark. I don’t know whether individual players are interested
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