Before and after: a tale of two innings
That’s tripe. When I were lad, cricketers took those chances in field, lad, beginning wi’ coin-toss. I know we’ve just now won toss, but I don’t see how England can win from here. Loocky t’ get draw. Happen we take wicket on first ball of every over, England may, joost may, mind you, manage draw, but I don’t see it, not if we don’t bowl nobbut dot balls with it. What’s that, Chris-to-pher? Nay, lad, that’s tripe: I don’t want a ball to be bowled before I predict a loss. When I were playin’, now - I mind Fred Trueman said to me - it were when I were preparing to succeed Len Hutton as Greatest Living Yorkshireman, right? - Fred said to me, you’ll hear nobbut tripe on TMS....
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Aye, didn’t I tell ’ee: Cap’n Strauss made right choice from start - mind, hadn’t had three dropped chances early, happen Australia were bowled oot for fifty - we’d ha’ dooone that in my day - and this business o’ lettin’ rain stop play is tripe, I tell ’ee, I mind a time we played Lancashire in a floooood - aye, Ray: that’s Ray Illingworth to you, lad - Ray, he said to me, it’s goooood weather for dooocks, and oot he went and bowled one, ‘Goooood weather for dooocks,’ says he, ‘but don’t ’ee be bowled oot fer one’ - oh, we played through hoooorricanes in my day….
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Aye, didn’t I tell ’ee: Cap’n Strauss made right choice from start - mind, hadn’t had three dropped chances early, happen Australia were bowled oot for fifty - we’d ha’ dooone that in my day - and this business o’ lettin’ rain stop play is tripe, I tell ’ee, I mind a time we played Lancashire in a floooood - aye, Ray: that’s Ray Illingworth to you, lad - Ray, he said to me, it’s goooood weather for dooocks, and oot he went and bowled one, ‘Goooood weather for dooocks,’ says he, ‘but don’t ’ee be bowled oot fer one’ - oh, we played through hoooorricanes in my day….