Month: July 2012

  • Over rates – why does everything take so long?

    When I started this blog, I set myself a little (unwritten) rule.  I would never write “it was better in the old days”…

    So I am going to struggle with this next post…but here we go.

    Why is the Club game so slow these days?  It wasn’t like this when I was a lad.

    (I said it was an unwritten rule.  Now it is broken.)

    I umpired a game last Sunday.  40 Overs a side.  Start time was 1 PM.  And we finally got in to tea at twenty to five.

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