Similar, with Leg Theory, no one was expecting it and so, technically, it was fine. Yet everyone knew it wasn't fine. Sportsmanship - that elusive quality. Just looking over these vids again now, two things struck me. One was how Richie Benaud savages the Australians at th end of the top vid and the other how the British government got involved in the dispute and threatened, in depression 1932 remember, to call in Australia's loans.
[This post is part of #Silly Week.]
I promise to do something for Silly Week now I'm back. Not forgotten, just a little busy..
ReplyDeleteJardine decided to play cricket like an Aussie and the Aussies squealed.
ReplyDeleteRather like Strauss the other day.
Hey, Alison! Hope it was nice.
ReplyDeleteDearieme - oh, no argument but I did think the government was a bit OTT.
Incidentally, you're aware that Bill O'Reilly was a friend of Jardine and at a dinner given by Ming the PM, the two were sitting at the same table.
Ming carried on about how the Brits loved him but the Colonists did not. "In fact," concluded Bob, "many people consider me the greatest bastard in Australia."
Jardine leant across to Bill O'Reilly and corrected, "The honourable gentleman is mistaken - he could only eer be N2."