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cise the switch or perhaps it s for the best that i don t have the space it goes without saying that i m immensely grateful to everyone who has followed commented on helped to publicise or simply read this blog over the last six years and i hope you ll continue to do so on the new site see you on the other side closed for refurbishment january 18 2015 backwatersman 2 comments mid january and the cricket pitches of england lie fallow as does this blog there have been one or two rum goings on here recently bits dropping off for instance rather like its author and a short period of closure for repair and refurbishment seems in order i hope to be back soon e w swanton v j enoch powell january 11 2015 april 14 2018 backwatersman 2 comments as a footnote to the grand christmas quiz this is the full text of the letter that e w swanton sent to the spectator in response to enoch powell s so called rivers of blood speech at birmingham in 1968 pretty strong stuff i think you ll agree it s really only notable because swanton quite consciously aspired to be the voice of the english cricketing establishment and so might be suspected by some of sympathising with powell s views sir in a recent letter to the daily telegraph mr patrick wall mp seemed to applaud mr enoch powell s infamous speech as a clarion call to britons who have pride in their country within the last few days an indian student at highbury has been set upon kicked and slashed by four sixteen year olds chanting blackman blackman enoch enoch a respectable west indian citizen at wolverhampton celebrating a family christening has been attacked without provocation and injured by people also invoking the name of enoch the prophet enoch dockers at westminster have been putting their boots into students off the ground are we to explain this sort of behaviour as some sort of twisted expression of national pride many will echo mr wall s cry for leadership of a kind that will kindle those principles that made us great but what has this aspiration to do with a bloodthirsty hateful speech lacking a single compassionate phrase towards fellow members of our commonwealth which has so fanned the flames of ignorance and prejudice as to bring about such episodes as these if enoch knew what passions he was about to unleash he was guilty of an act that was the complete negation of patriotism it is possibly more charitable to suppose that his frothy speech was a bid for future political power which pray god he may never achieve if enochism were ever to win through there would surely be a migration from this once great land of white as well as black e w swanton delf house sandwich kent un soixante huitard grand christmas cricket quiz round 3 december 29 2014 december 31 2014 backwatersman 6 comments welcome to the third and final round i wouldn t expect anyone in their right mind to know the answers to these questions but please do feel free to have a go and i hope the quiz has provided some amusement along the way 1 at a match between the united south and an 18 of northampton in 1873 w g grace urged on by his brother e m if you don t go and give him a good hiding i shall laid into a spectator with sledgehammer blows and blacked both his eyes what was the man s offence a he d accused him of cheating b he d told him he needed a shave c he d complained he was taking too too long to get back on the pitch after a rain break 2 the earliest and perhaps most physically dangerous of england s fast bowling partnerships was between foghorn jackson and tear em tarrant tarrant s nickname was self explanatory but what was the source of jackson s foghorn tear em 3 what did george dickie wooster for many years a stalwart of kettering cc have in common with samuel beckett 4 the autobiography of which late 20th century australian captain begins by saying i should be bitter but i am not and contains chapters entitled sacked fleeced still kicking skinned alive slaughtered and a nasty business 5 whose wife an australian society beauty artistic in nature and noted for her fine singing voice she married her husband a well known english cricketer while he was on tour in australia unfortunately an irreverent and indecent crowd surged into the church before the service occupied every possible vantage point including the pulpit and stole all the floral decorations as souvenirs 6 which team is this a description of were genuinely hated apparently this stemmed from the time when they beat everyone in sight and then went on to cause havoc off the ground some of the things they were supposed to have done defy description and i also heard about fantastic brawls in pubs and hotels a the yorkshire side of the 1920s and 30s b the australian side of the early 1970s c the surrey side of the 1950s 7 fast bowler cyril eales was sacked as a professional by northants after hitting the fiery irish baronet sir timothy o brien several times in an over at lord s and responding in kind when sir timothy instructed him to pitch the buggers up man but what happened next a he carried on playing for northants as an amateur instead b sir timothy took pity on him and offered him a job as a chauffeur c he tried to burn sir timothy s townhouse down in revenge 8 which northamptonshire amateur of the 1940s played 3 test matches was one of the last men in england to be sent to prison for performing abortions and was later awarded the obe 9 the famously pugnacious a n monkey hornby of long ago once pursued a miscreant around old trafford until he eventually cornered him in the ladies pavilion and gave him a good thrashing but who was the man and what was his offence a a student who had released a monkey into the outfield as a prank b a thief who had broken into the dressing room and stolen his watch c a local newspaper journalist who had made some criticisms of his captaincy 10 the rightful owner of this sind cricket association cap from 1973 was an international man of mystery who toured australia with india in 1970 but also popped up playing for another country in 1980 which was that country thanks to jonathan for pointing out that not only was there no world cup in 1980 there was no indian tour of australia in 1970 either i am reasonably confident however that this elusive character did at some point appear in an indian squad of some description without getting on to the pitch in a test match well i did say he was a man of mystery 11 the minutes of which cricket club for a meeting of late august 1796 recorded the presence of mr thomas paine author of the rights of man grand cricket christmas quiz round 2 december 26 2014 january 25 2015 backwatersman 5 comments 1 of whom did jonathan agnew write the following in 1988 he had problems with his approach to the game last year and failed to fulfil his enormous potential he became too involved with the off the field politics 2 which city did dudley carew in a survey of county cricket between the wars describe in the following terms he didn t think much of their ground either shoddiness and pretence mental and moral permeate the place all the faults of which foreigners accuse us seem concentrated in the few square miles of england pollutes hypocrisy joylessness interference lack of all response to any values not to be assessed in terms of money the list of s shortcomings is black indeed 3 whose wife she was known as one of first women in london to sport a monocle her husband often played in thick glasses which he had no medical need for gave his name to a best selling brand of scotch whiskey in spain and was the author of a lyric entitled reckless reggie of the regent palace he was often described as the best captain england never had 4 only one of the following nicknames was intended ironically but which one a g a t tubby vials northamptonshire b c e noisy de trafford leicestershire c happy jack ulyett yorkshire and england 5 w g grace s mother martha rather irresponsibly considering the possible effect on the future of english cricket took to the skies in the 1820s and according to some accounts tried to fly across the cheddar gorge but how a a primitive rocket b a chair held aloft by giant kites c a catapult 6 which cricketer has a memorial garden dedicated to him in the grounds of canterbury cathedral 7 this was how the daily telegraph reacted to the selection of a foreign born player for a test against australia when it was first announced that he was among the thirteen there was considerable adverse comment but it was generally expected that the selectors would become acquainted with public opinion and decide to omit him the remarks when he was chosen in preference to the english born and were very scathing it is a fact that if england wins with the aid of a considerable amount of gilt will be off the gingerbread but who was he 8 according to fred trueman why did chairman of selectors r w v robins instruct the umpires not to no ball charlie griffith for throwing in 1963 a he thought his action was fair b he thought chucking made the game more interesting c he was worried about sparking off a race riot 9 what did mordecai sherwin of nottinghamshire do in 1888 and ewart astill of leicestershire in 1935 which no one else had done in the intervening years 10 the usual explanation of arthur ticker mitchell s nickname is that he used to mutter to himself continuously on the field but in a late interview he offered another explanation what was it a he had a big heart b he always seemed about to go off like a time bomb c he d picked up a liking for chicken tikka on a tour of india 11 rosa cadiz a spanish lady was the mother of which great panjandrum of english cricket grand christmas cricket quiz round 1 december 24 2014 january 25 2015 backwatersman 7 comments it s time to join the three wise men above percy chapman seated and plum warner on the far right not to mention freddie brown second left for the first round of this year s grand christmas quiz the programme is subject to alteration and the rules to being made up at short notice but at the moment we re looking at three rounds of questions over the festive period with the answers to be announced in the new year though do feel free to answer at any time one point is awarded per question unless otherwise indicated and bonus points will be awarded for any particularly amusing or apt alternatives to the correct answer first prize as usual will be a year s free subscription to the crimson rambler so here we go q1 what does jack hobbs have in common with internet sensation zoella q2 which england batsman of recent vintage was named after a poet who died in the first world war q3 which current english cricketer described his interests in the cricketers who s who as hunting fishing and shooting q4 the father of which england captain starred for heckmondwike in the heavy woollen and central yorkshire leagues in the 1930s his christian name was horace q5 which future england captain had previously turned out for hickleton main colliery in the yorkshire council league q6 tom graveney was once ordered by his gloucestershire captain to apologise to david sheppard for having addressed him inappropriately what had he called him a shep b david c your reverence q7 everyone i hope knows fred titmus lost four toes in a boating accident but which other cricketer of the 1960s was missing his big toe q8 the father of which conservative cabinet minister opened the batting for somerset with his identical twin brother with hilarious results and once made 92 against gloucestershire under an assumed name q9 which well known cricket writer had this to say about enoch powell in a letter to the spectator following powell s inflamatory speech at birmingham in 1968 if enoch knew what passions he was about to unleash he was guilty of an act that was the complete negation of patriotism it is possibly more charitable to suppose that his frothy speech was a bid for future political power which pray god he may never achieve if enochism were ever to win through there would surely be a migration from this once great land of white as well as black q10 percy chapman a heavy drinker used to keep a lemonade bottle filled with neat gin in the dressing room so that he could keep himself topped up between sessions what did the teeetotal jack hobbs do when he discovered this during a test match with disastrous consequences a sell the story to the news of the world b drink the contents himself c empty the gin from the bottle and replace it with lemonade q11 she designed the costumes for an experimental theatre company called the unnamed society regarded her husband as an attractive stray cat of which she could be very fond without depriving it of any natural independence and once chose to join him in australia uninvited bringing with her a molotov cocktail painted blue but whose wife was she and even if you don t feel inclined to answer a merry and peaceful christmas to you all and thank you for your custom throughout the year instead of a christmas card december 21 2014 january 25 2015 backwatersman leave a comment he knows if you are sleeping he knows if you re awake he knows if you ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake a merry christmas to all our readers and if you have been good or frankly even if you haven t there s a good chance of a grand christmas quiz appearing on this blog at some point over the holiday period so stay tuned for further announcements exact format and timings to be decided but it will be grand and it will be a quiz if you d like to limber up for the quiz try to guess the identity of our secret santa above as a hint it s not w g grace small griefs december 7 2014 january 25 2015 backwatersman leave a comment older readers if any may remember that robert herrick the cavalier clergyman and poet made almost as many appearances in the early days of this blog as overnight sensation james taylor as he herrick not taylor was to the best of my knowledge outside cricket he has rather faded from the scene recently but i was reminded of him again when i came across a 1961 edition of selected poems edited by john hayward and published in the penguin poets series in particular the cover is rather lovely i d suggest it would serve well as wallpaper literal or virtual or with the festive season approaching as wrapping paper or a slightly oblique greetings card as for the verse inside the card how about this some lines from herrick s to his mistresse objecting to him neither toying or talking small griefs find tongues full casques are ever found to give if any yet but little sound deep waters noyse lesse are and this we know that chiding streams betray small depth below not festive perhaps but possibly timely guess the author no 2 november 23 2014 january 18 2015 backwatersman 3 comments another nice n easy quiz for a sunday evening the incomparable game of course it is but who was the author as a clue he was a well known english batsman of the 1960s 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