Cricketers can spend a whole lifetime searching for ‘the one’. It does exist. You just have to know where to look
By James Wallace for The Nightwatchman
A Sunday morning in May 1993. I’m five years old and sans plans. My parents have dragged me to a car-boot sale in Bakewell, Derbyshire. Wandering among the bric-a-brac, memorabilia and mid-1990s estate cars with a weapons-grade sulk, I am stopped in my tracks. There it is. Propped up in the boot of a clapped-out, teal-coloured Austin Maestro that belongs to one of the town’s many grizzled elder statesmen. I vaguely recognise him – impossibly old and with huge sideburns. He nods knowingly, but not warmly, at my dad, who is holding my increasingly clammy little paw.
“It’s a bit big for you lad.”
Written by James Wallace
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/the-nightwatchman/2020/mar/23/life-measured-out-in-cricket-bats under the title “Life measured out in cricket bats | The Nightwatchman”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
