Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Quote of the Day #146
We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.
-- Brian Viner writes about the frenetic pace of the current Ashes series and wonders what happened to Test cricket as he knew it