I’ll try to choose my euphemisms more carefully in future.

Where I come from, boing-boing is even less likely than ding-dong to mean the particular variety of dalliance I was seeking to describe.

Leslie Phillips might have escaped my consciousness for the rest of all time, but for Edwardian’s mention & link – thanks for that.

Come on guys, he clearly means boing-boing.

Ged is probably thinking about Leslie Phillips
https://youtu.be/sV0lKD3KPsc

Concur with Sam. Wonder whether Ged has mixed it up with them having a spot of ping-pong or maybe a sing-song. Unlikely they had a King Kong. Possible Ged was referring to them playing a well-known variant of snooker.

Round our way Ding-Dong means argument. Are you using it to mean something else?

I think bowlers generally don’t get celebrated sufficiently in awards etc compared to batsmen, despite being more involved and influential in the game in many ways – a front-line bowler will typically bowl 20-25% of his team’s overs, more for a spinner or a “workhorse” bowler, whereas a front-line batsman on average faces a far smaller proportion of his side’s balls. On the other hand, batsmen have to spend more time watching balls whizz part their faces at 90 mph. But bowlers have to do this too, though maybe not for as long, and it’s worse for them as they’re not so good at it…

On balance I don’t think the run of bowlers/all-rounders for LMCoG has been disproportionate.

I had to look up Peter Purves and/but then I remembered him.

Learning that he had a ding-dong with Valerie Singleton at one time has taken a little bit of my childhood away for ever.

Top choice this. Everyone has their own interpretation of what Lord Megachief of Gold means. To Peter Purves, it’s about statistics, pure and simple. To Jack Kerouac it was always more about aesthetics. To me, it has to have a strong element of unorthodoxy to it in order to be fully realised.

The simple truth here is that with Neil Wagner, all three of us can agree. And that’s a rare thing, let me tell you (Purves is just a fucking contrarian sometimes). So all hail Neil Wagner, Lord Megachief of Gold 2019.

Yeah, but only to undercut the entire concept of the effort ball with regards to Neil Wagner.

Oh, and Happy New Year! I am sure 20-20 is the year of Test Cricket!