A TESTING TIME
’What a cruel game it is!’ — Jeremy Coney, live on radio.
Switch off the Radio, Sir, . Take your Eyes off the TeeVee, Close your old dog-eared Copy of Wisden, —Just listen to Me—
This isn’t, a Game, it’s a Drug, ; And, if That sounds invidious, i Can’t you feel the cold Touch of an Addiction, Mild, but insidious?
Ball by Ball, Hour by Hour, Day by Day, Your Commentators drone ■ — ( Youican’t even get to the Loo, or answer The Telephone!
Why, almost Anything could happen ■ In one Moment of Inattention! A Catch dropped — or a rude Remark I Wisden will never mention’. (
I ■■ ’ 1 Famous (Faces, Gulls, Magpies, Babies, Among the Spectators — ( Bored you may feel, but would; you admit it , Among Cricket-haters? j
i ! i ’ When A scored his ‘Ton,’ was your Applause Altogether sincere? ! When B failed, was Yours a genuine or A crocodile Tear?
What a( cruel Game it is, said Jeremy. All in the Point of View, How cruel It can get to All its Victims — Not excluding You! < *
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Press, 5 March 1988, Page 20
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