Matt, you let your team down, you should either:_
a. have left the ball in the dog's mouth and demanded a new ball so your bowler's could get some swing.
OR b. used the dog's saliva to polish up one side of the ball to get some reverse swing going.
I played in a game in which our most over-enthusiastic fielder chased a ball at top speed to the boundary to try to stop a four. Unfortunately he had miscalculated how close the boundary took him to Walton Dam - behind Robinson's Works in Chesterfield. Despite teetering desperately on the edge for what seemed like ages waving his arms like reversing wind turbines he couldn't save himself. He surfaced soaked, spectacles askew, and totally covered in pond weed. Even the two very severe Derbyshire County players who were umpiring could not take the game seriously afterwards. Both bowlers and batsmen occasionally had to ask for play to halt because they'd just started laughing again.
a. have left the ball in the dog's mouth and demanded a new ball so your bowler's could get some swing.
OR b. used the dog's saliva to polish up one side of the ball to get some reverse swing going.
I played in a game in which our most over-enthusiastic fielder chased a ball at top speed to the boundary to try to stop a four. Unfortunately he had miscalculated how close the boundary took him to Walton Dam - behind Robinson's Works in Chesterfield. Despite teetering desperately on the edge for what seemed like ages waving his arms like reversing wind turbines he couldn't save himself. He surfaced soaked, spectacles askew, and totally covered in pond weed. Even the two very severe Derbyshire County players who were umpiring could not take the game seriously afterwards. Both bowlers and batsmen occasionally had to ask for play to halt because they'd just started laughing again.