Cricket

Have you heard of cricket?

It’s a long game…

Two teams hit a ball.

Try to knock it over the boundary.

Two players run between stumps

On the playing surface

Between the two wickets.

A bowler bowls a ball fast or slow

Seamers, googlies, bouncers, catches.

The bowler tries to hit the wicket

Two short bales lie on top of three stumps.

That’s the wicket.

Hit the bales and knock them off?

Or knock over the stumps

Player is out.

11 players to a side

Two play

10 field

1 bowls

Collect runs to win.

1 point running between stumps

4 if the ball rolls to boundaries.

6 if the ball flies out over the boundary.

That’s cricket in a nutshell..

Highest score wins

Don’t get your leg before wicket…

It’s a very big nutshell…

Green gone!

My neighbours are fencing off the alleyway which is good because it will stop people getting in through the hedge, but they bought a digger in and grubbed up even more of the hedge. It’s near where my hubby wanted his ashes scattering. I couldn’t argue, I just stayed polite, the builder didn’t care or understand. But when things are sorted I will plant the spikiest holly and pyrocantha hedge that I can!

The builder said “your hedge is over the boundary line” I replied “this was my hedge for over twenty years, you are doing work for someone who literally just bought it”, he seemed to vaguely understand. I just hope he didn’t dig up any hedgehog nests!