Welcome to another Summer where you can guarantee a multitude of spontaneously hilarious declarations and batshit crazy verbal-blunders will be made about cricket. I remember the day Wade took a sharp one off the bowling of Lyon and, in the commentary box, Ian Healey said: “Beautifully catched.” And then there was the time Dave Warner got into a scuffle with Joe Root and SEN’s Tony Schibeci reported that Cricket Australia had called the incident “debarkable.” But there’s no greater example of cricket’s undergraduate linguistic charms than BBC legend Brian Johnston saying: “The bowler's Holding. The batsman's Willey.”
“The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding.” I miss when Ian Chappell was young and funny, instead of old and doddery.
“The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding.” I miss when Ian Chappell was young and funny, instead of old and doddery.