Batters fail, change the bowlers. Plus ca change, Rodders.

The EL34 was the favorite of Marshall amps owners. From memory the AC30 used 84s.

I love the smell of a hot guitar amp in the morning!

It’s a constant delight that we’re never really sure where the comments on this site are going to take us.

When I was a child (no doubt Bob Patterson and some others here also remember this), television sets were operated through thermionic valves, not the modern transistor/silicon chip methods. When you turned off such a TV set, the image on the screen indeed disappeared into a dot resembling a point in the space time continuum.

A return to such decent values (or should I say decent valves) is long overdue in our society. It seems that the ECB recognises this and I for one applaud such forward thinking.

Pints and litres if you will.

I am reminded of the John Arlott quote about Bob Cunis. “Funny name, Cunis, neither one thing nor the other”. Any suggestions for Bob Cunis’s icon?

Not really sure what the point is here. The side batting first posts a total, then the other lot try and get that many runs + 1. The required rate is the exciting bit, isn’t it? With a few exceptions I rarely care about the actual result for more than five minutes after the conclusion of the game.

Of course it is. Inherent in every match ever played, not just one-day stuff.

But every player and spectator at any match knows that the side batting second/last needs more runs to go past the first side’s total to win. They don’t know, and almost certainly don’t care, how far short of a target the batting side is. Makes not a jot of difference. Plus no degrees in Difficult Sums are needed to work it all out.

Unless it’s a match from the Premier Division of Harrison’s Folly.

Surely ‘runs required’ is the single most significant number as you move towards the conclusion of any limited overs game?