At Midnight Speak with the Sun
HE commentator was excited. Someone had nibbled at a ball going away on the off. "He hadn’t a sight of the ball. He hadn’t been in long enough to touch it. If he’d been in longer he would have touched it and would have been out first ball." The game was being played at Lords, not Ballyhooly, but anything can happen after midnight. Drugged by sleep, the runs mount one upon. the other; the dismissals, the dropped chances, the bumpers, the sixes, loom up like noises through light anaesthesia. Arthur hands over to Rex, Rex hands over to Alan, and Alan hands over to John (the one with the Yerkshire accent and the literary allusions) through the buzz of a street light arc-ing somewhere, What! Has Lindsay Hassett taken three hours to make 42? Poor fellow; trying to put Bedser away in 12 degrees of frost by the light of a gibbous moon. Nobody knows the trouble he sees. What are Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy doing in this company? Oh, it’s been raining and we have adjourned to the studio. Our soft palate is raw from snoring. When we sleep in earphones we cannot sleep on our side. We have violet bags under our eyes, and our failing hand spills coffee on our egg-stained waistcoat, but it is a Test Match, and who cares how ghoulish we look: at breakfast?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 9
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239At Midnight Speak with the Sun New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 9
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