further cricket

g'day


and so summer continues, look you see, for us, at the least, in Yorkshire, to be sure. which means that the cricket carries on.

yes, then, for friends and families around the world, another gander at how James is getting on playing that most beautiful, elegant and perfect of sports.

indeed, quite, that is he, or if you like James, sat watching on as he prepares for his innings.

as usual with these posts, then, i shall do my best to keep my drivelesque writing to a bare minimum, allowing you to appreciate and admire the pictures and video.

yes, we have got a video. several, actually.

a most splendid boundary stroke, with James deftly guiding the ball with his bat over the rope for a four.

in the same match one of his teammates hit a six. i take some credit for that, for i offered him a shiny £1 coin if he hit one. yes, i paid up.

yes, that was a clip of James bowling, for those of you who like to see how he is getting on with the other side of cricket. well, i suppose cricket as three sides, doesn't it? sorry, no, i don't film his fielding.

also, for those of you who for some reason wish to see, every now and then, but not often, how my (considerably) better half and i are plodding along in the world these days.....

my intention there was to get a celebrated local landmark in the distance, but i suspect i failed to do it. still, some lovely blue sky visible and most splendid trees.

further video, since it seems more than was usual can play it back here? certainly.

another fine batting display and more runs to the total. well, just the one, for as you would hopefully have watched James hit the ball in such a way that taking a single was possible. right off the vegetable of the bat.

no, for those of you who regularly read these particular updates. James has not decided if he is a batsman who bowls a bit, or a bowler that is handy with a bat.

one thing i quite like about these posts is that if, and it is entirely up to him, James sets off in a career in cricket, then presumably some journalist shall, on a future day, "stumble" on these posts and declare that he or she has "found" the footage. well, good luck to them.

do i want James to go off and have a cricket career? i want him to do whatever it is that makes him happy in this life. further, i shall of course support him no matter what he chooses. and his brother, William, too, of course. so long as, obviously, it does not involve France in any sort of positive way.

another fine bit of bowling there from James. fine, but alas not rewarded with a wicket.

unlike this next video.

splendid work, son!

would i have wished to have a career as a cricket player? i could wellie the ball around a bit, but not with much finesse or class. a slogger, if you will. my discovery of, in no particular order, cigarettes, the ladies, beer and certain other things suggests that i would not have had the discipline. yeah, sure, it was totes them things stopping me being the next Ian Botham.

quite a nice shot of James and his batting partner leaving the field after a most splendid innings. an innings which, alas, did not secure victory for the team, but still the game of cricket won. and that is always what is most important in cricket.

yes, that video above was from the innings which the picture before it showed the conclusion of. indeed, quite, i maybe should have had them the other way around, but then again none of this is in any sort of order, featuring as it does stuff from at least two matches.

another image of my (considerably) better half and i? to be honest i cannot think of any reason why one may want such, but equally i can think of no reason why not to add another.

some more video to finish off? surely.

yes, footage of another wicket, so as we may finish this off on a high, as it were.

well, then, that's that for one more post. many thanks for the support and encouragement, and indeed for reading!



be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!