Post by hhsussex on Dec 21, 2014 13:37:05 GMT
Whatever distractions are provided by the latest former eminence demanding the return of Pietersen to the England team (so thet they can then vilify him as a foreign interloper), this week our attentions are inevitably going to be be claimed by goings on outside the world of cricket. With this in mind I thought of compiling a festive XI, whose names or associations recall aspects of Christmas, be it the weather or other associations. I thought I was doing well, assembling a fine hand of bowlers and some useful batsmen, but came into terrible trouble over a fitting wicket-keeper. The one I've chose in serviceable enough, and reputedly a fine keeper in his time, but I'm open to suggestions for better candidates here, and indeed for any other positions.
Here they are. Opening the batting we have two contrasting aspects, firstof all the captain, a Sheppard to watch his flocks (or wash his socks) by night, accompanied by Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Middle-order players must include a jingling Bell, St Nicholas with his sack of goodies, another avatar of the Christmas spirit in Santall, and a versatile all-round pugnacious Robins.
Wicket-keeper, as mentioned above, seems likely to be the festive Board, whose county batting was much better than his form for England in the few matches he played in the course of a long and illustrious career.
At least there is a return to straightforward nomenclature, and great strength in the bowling, headed by the inevitable Snow, accompanied by some decorative Bowes, then to provide variation and penetration, a switch to spin with the traditional Hollies, adorned with the necessary Berry.
Reserves for this time would include the topical pair Frost and Midwinter.
Here they are. Opening the batting we have two contrasting aspects, firstof all the captain, a Sheppard to watch his flocks (or wash his socks) by night, accompanied by Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Middle-order players must include a jingling Bell, St Nicholas with his sack of goodies, another avatar of the Christmas spirit in Santall, and a versatile all-round pugnacious Robins.
Wicket-keeper, as mentioned above, seems likely to be the festive Board, whose county batting was much better than his form for England in the few matches he played in the course of a long and illustrious career.
At least there is a return to straightforward nomenclature, and great strength in the bowling, headed by the inevitable Snow, accompanied by some decorative Bowes, then to provide variation and penetration, a switch to spin with the traditional Hollies, adorned with the necessary Berry.
Reserves for this time would include the topical pair Frost and Midwinter.
