Comments on: Match report of garden cricket at the Frangipani Tree near Galle

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:35:32 +0000

I see Ged also complied with the Rules of Cricket requiring that players wear ‘shoes that are predominantly white in colour’.
We did get ourselves in a spot of bother one year when our opening bat came straight from work and had to pad up in his steel cap work boots. They were not ‘predominantly white’, but in fact all black.
Fortunately this did not bother the opposition, especially since the man at square leg was beer-in-hand.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:52:17 +0000

In reply to Bert.

I can’t see you selling many copies of a book called “Around The World In Eighty Cricket Matches Against Hotel Staff Teams On Somewhat Less Than Ideal Pitches That Require A Series Of Special Local Rules With My Significant Other”. It’s just too long an unwieldy.

Best of luck with your real book, though.

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:47:50 +0000

In reply to Bert.

Yes, Bert, I do as it happens have a book coming out IRL. In October. Coincidentally, I’m meeting the publisher’s PR wonk tomorrow.

Sadly, it is not quite the sort of book you are after. More a serious thing about real commerce, wicked problems, better decisions, the price of fish and that sort of malarky.

Daisy and I aren’t married but we have been together for nearly 19 years which is a better longevity return than most marriages these days.

Still, Daisy could probably be persuaded to sign the odd copy or two of the new tome.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:17:20 +0000

In reply to Pete.

Good point well made.

It is obviously the standards of readership that are going downhill fast.

I profoundly apologise.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:51:14 +0000

In reply to Pete. No change. Original submission guidelines.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:26:50 +0000

Outrageous, blatant mentioning of the cricket going on here KC. He even mentions the score. Are editorial standards slipping, or have you changed the rules?

By: Nash

Nash — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:27:15 +0000

These match reports always make me laugh. Two thumbs up to all concerned.

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:18:31 +0000

Superb, Ged.

Can I ask – do you have a book coming out? One of those comedy books based on an unusual and somewhat pointless premise, like that fridge one? It’s just that you seem to have played cricket against the staff of at least thirty hotels. “Around The World In Eighty Cricket Matches Against Hotel Staff Teams On Somewhat Less Than Ideal Pitches That Require A Series Of Special Local Rules With My Wife”, or something pithy like that. If you do, can I have the first copy, signed by the author’s wife, please?

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:00:59 +0000

Eight8? Get it trademarked!

By: vastrap

vastrap — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:58:11 +0000

Most cricket should be played in this vain. Home ground advantage isn’t what it used to be.