A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
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.
The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk