Five Minutes on the Cricket Field

IF THE NUMBER of assistant-under-secretaries of county clubs were placed end to end they would reach from Hyde Park Corner to Peckham Rye.

There is no actual written rule prohibiting a Lancashire man from playing for Lancashire, or a Middlesex man for playing for Middlesex; but it is looked on as rather bad form for them to try.

If all the Surrey skippers skipped simultaneously there would be an earthquake.

The technicalities of cricket occasionally baffle the beginner, who is sometimes puzzled even by the fact that a team touring in Australia is called England when it wins a test match and MCC when it loses.

A cricketer must mount the ladder slowly. It was not till he had played with success for some years that the half-penny papers referred to Rhodes as Wilfred.