Comments on: Geraint Jones slashes to great effect

By: Ged

Ged — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:18:13 +0000

Daisy and I are spending a couple of days in Brighton.

Walking the front yesterday, we tried to find the scene of Monty Panesar’s “slash hard” crime.

We considered filming a reconstruction of the event, but couldn’t work out how to make the camera angles work, especially as our equipment merely comprises a couple of iPhones – plus my personal equipment for the act itself, of course.

So we settled on buying a couple of 99s and walking on.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:28:11 +0000

Maybe he was having a poo.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:56:25 +0000

In reply to Sam. He got a couple of mentions on the old version of the site, but faded from international cricket around the time we moved here.

By: A P Webster

A P Webster — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 05:55:41 +0000

In reply to BailOut. A wee bit more, or indeed a bit more wee, depending on the circumstances. As Bumble would no doubt observe: if you're going to slash, slash hard.

By: BailOut

BailOut — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:23:29 +0000

Two other observations:
(1) He has a great name,
(2) He has played international cricket for Papua New Guinea.

These additional facts allow us to excuse a wee bit more from him.

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:17:56 +0000

Any discussion of “that test” at Edgbaston ought not be just mentioned in a blog post and it certainly ought not to be linked to, even with warnings. There should be a notice period- “regular readers are warned that in a week’s time reference will be made to a match the contents of which we are all aware but that discussion thereof is likely to cause increased blood pressure and accelerated heart rate.”

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:58:43 +0000

This appears to be the first piece you have ever written about Geraint.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:57:35 +0000

In reply to Tybalt. Too exciting, obviously, but still exciting, yes.

By: Tybalt

Tybalt — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:33:42 +0000

Exciting? You’d found that exciting? I was nearly dead.

By: Ged

Ged — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:41:17 +0000

Are we absolutely sure that the pivotal moment actually took place during the 21 seconds (approx) that Geraint Jones was on the metaphorical urinal oche?

The duration of Geraint’s slash is now the subject of award-wining research,btw, as the following link to the appropriately-named PNAS research into this subject won an IG Nobel Award for physics earlier this week:

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/33/11932.short

Bert will no doubt be well-versed in the science involved.