
Originally Posted by
Old Manus
For the benefit of members partial to the great sport of cricket (both of them), witness a textbook forward defensive shot, and ignore the fact that I just got bowled and the bails are flying everywhere.

This amuses me far too much. I'm probably reading too much into it but I just love the idea of you setting yourself in the crease, watching the bowler coming in, thinking "right going to block this one", getting a nice straight bat up there and holding the pose, just as the bails go flying. "Ah, lovely" is what I like to imagine your response was right before you trudged off.