Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

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Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk