What question would you ask the greatest all-rounder the game has ever known?
How to polish a cricket ball?
Me neither.
But I heard this from someone who asked this question of Sir Garfield Sobers – just one degree of separation from greatness…and a great tip, too!
The trick is to keep the ball dry, and to polish so hard that the ball becomes hot. Try it – it really does work.
One of our Club XIs was missing both skipper and vice a couple of weeks ago, and I was asked to stand-in for the day. After my post on dilatory over rates back in July, I had the unexpected opportunity to see if the Teesra could get a team through its overs at a decent rate.
First innings – 51 overs in a little over 3 hours (17 overs/hour); second innings – 25 overs in 90 minutes (before the final hour’s play – a touch under 17 overs/hour).
It can be done! (more…)
The Teesra 