Comments on: You can probably gauge the worth of Paul Collingwood from that time he was an umpire

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:18:14 +0000

In reply to Ged. Marvellous! I can't get used to the digital radio, it has not taken the mantle of longwave with aplomb. Sure as eggs is eggs, it doesn't crackle enough, mmm? What is radio anyway, really?

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:31:16 +0000

In reply to Richard. Cheers!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:36:59 +0000

One of your best your maj. Essence of decency and what the game is all about.
Collingwood summed up beautifully here. It’s why I read this website – hitting the right notes is worth far more than lavish prose…

By: Ged

Ged — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:47:00 +0000

In reply to Bail-out.

Funnily enough, Daisy and I heard the end of the LW broadcast on Sunday evening, while driving to the Wigmore Hall.

Daisy’s remark on hearing Soul Limbo, said in disparaging tones, “are they really still using that old Booker T tune after all these years? ”

“Yes, Daisy, and live musicians are still performing Caldara and Vivaldi after all those years – that’s what we’re going to hear at the Wigmore Hall.”

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:55:09 +0000

In reply to Bail-out. What an image that conjures. One of the great images.

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:11:22 +0000

Paul Collingwood, Marcus Trescothick, Mark Butcher, Graham Thorpe, Alastair Cook, isn’t it? Matthew Hoggard, Andrew Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Ashley Giles, Jimmy Anderson, mmm?

Reassuring names, aren’t they, when you’re listening in some far flung corner of the British motorway system to TMS of a bank holiday afternoon, 198 longwave, crackly reception, interference, stuck in a traffic jam, windows down, marvellous. Soul limbo. Da-da-da-da-daaah-da-da-da, do-do-do-doo. Somehow comforting, isn’t it you know. Legendary names … CMJ!

We’ve all come a long way from small boys in the park, chairs for wickets. Enduring image, isn’t it?

By: JB

JB — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:04:12 +0000

The Southport Visiter really is spelt that way too.

By: Balladeer

Balladeer — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:52:43 +0000

In reply to Ged.

Ouch. That scorecard hurts.

Stoneman. Jennings. Borthwick. Coughlin. Onions. What the heck’s happened to Burnham? And now Colly.

There were signs that age was finally catching up with him, runs-wise, but God did he hold together this faltering Durham side.

I hope to goodness he stays involved. If he becomes the Durham fielding coach he’ll probably save them forty runs an innings. Meaning that they’ll only concede first-innings leads of 160 runs.

By: Ged

Ged — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:38:32 +0000

Wonderful image.

Durham had just won a cracker of a first class match at Southport that day:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8052/scorecard/946887/lancashire-vs-durham-specsavers-county-championship-division-one-2016

…outground cricket is so under-rated.

My only personal interaction with Colly was rather different in tone and only a few weeks after that cracking image and is still sitting on King Cricket’s pile of yet unpublished match reports. #justsayin’

Missing Colly already – I know what you mean KC.