Why the kids don't play air shots with aubergines any more
As
coverage skins England cricket team behind a wall of pay TV and playing fields
are cleared urban map, the sport has become completely absent from the lives of
most children
Perhaps
the most curious of the epic Test series drawn invented this month for England
and New Zealand - 15 days of wear, glazing and dizzy zero to zero at the end -
was the impression both at home and abroad that despite its great athletic
showmanship, its newsworthiness, few people seemed to be really watching.
Actually,
no: not given its scope, intrusiveness and the magnificence of its staging
televised. Delight,
but to remove a vicar seems to have been the general
experience.
On
a side note, but it is not completely alien, it was for those who managed to
catch a glimpse of a great week for cricket air. Yes:
air cricket, cricket is hidden within us all, cricket mirror and umbrella
brandished, the purest, the most cultishly invisible sport, which tends to
promote more effectively during the painful end of some rearguard Test
Match exhausting.
Personally,
I added two new pictures to my repertoire this week. The
hook-shot Matt Prior: compulsive air without fear of rotation (of course, I have
the offside carving Matt Prior: can not, can not bowl me not air). In
addition to a pleasant surprise in the form of lean legside Peter Fulton, a
willowy rumble pads was tenaciously cash of 511 balls in Wellington despite
sometimes resembles the kind of shot a really talented horse a horse really play
talented
ever to make it through the different grade levels and get through sheer weight
of the scoring race, the opportunity to play Test cricket.
The
obsessive genuine cricket air anytime, anywhere and with any object or less
equivalent: an eggplant supermarket, a toothpick, a tea towel. This
may be something of a burden sometimes, maybe even a mild social disorder.
I
have a friend who is unable to enter a room full of people - maybe a party or an
informal business meeting - without compulsively and secretly carrying out a
series of high air elbow forward defensive. On
one occasion I found myself making the air around a hook shot unexpectedly
violent family size tube of Smarties in a children's party - rocking in the
line, the full extension of the arms - which involved sending its contents
multicolored improperly
fired the entire end capping, sliding out onto the floor, where people drink,
clinking their glasses. Frankly, the consequences
could have been dire. Although
I was very careful to roll my wrists and I'm pretty sure most of Smarties have
been at the height of a man destined specifically for the
shot.
They are
air throws first cricket heroes who tend to stay longer. My
basic repertoire air, bicycle pump or a rule or cucumber grocery aisle, has
buttock-wiggling Chris Broad legside clip, effort, Viv Richards pulled over
midwicket deep yawn, and, of course, Brian Lara jumping,
threshing-screen again forcibly evict the foot. And
here is the air cricket least essentially social, business and commitment to
honor and private notation. The
idea of "being someone" imitative homage, has always been a fundamental part
of learning to play and understand cricket, a sport that is more than a set of
acquired skills, syncopated movements, a dance for chin music time.
There is a wider point to all this.
Recently,
a group waiting for eight years to complete a training session indoors, I was
struck by the incongruity of a group member. The
boy was all air movements: Stuart Broad-style finger wagging farewell languid
twiddle the bat between deliveries, even the England team asked for a butt-pat
fellow gardener.
It
was just him, however, that his coach had an explanation: this child was the
only one there who had Sky Sports at home. The
rest of them basically do not see any professional cricket happening at all and
therefore remain happily sui generis. Two
cycles of ashes in 2005, the year in England cricket finally ducked behind its
pay TV wall, these are our eight years of age, the decline of the survivors -
and, on anecdotal evidence, which are increasingly scarce -
New World intransigent invisible beautiful weeds with enough force to bloom
through the cracks left by football and television and computer
screens.
It
is a special moment for all now to the spectators and the England team in its
center encryption. In
the eight years that have followed the bright summer of 2005 England have rarely
enjoyed success in the field, while paradoxically, cricket itself has never
seemed, if not less popular then simply less visible, less tangible present
between us. There
will be another reception Trafalgar Square if England win the Ashes this year,
although the events of 2005 are perhaps not a fair comparison, involving as they
did brilliantly preposterous a loss of scale, a collective wave of emotion that
seemed to fit air plastic boom-time
tenor of the day, that sense of will and prosperity substitute cured by a
minister of high-risk air convictions air monitoring air the latest draft
euphoria - Olympics! House prices! Credit cards! - Before the end times
began.
No
broader legacy now that summer bright, just a feeling of contraction gold.
England's
recent Test match world No1 ranking, a direct result of the independence
provided by monied swollen coffers of the ECB, will be paid by other means.
As
the playing fields are cleared urban map and soccer increasingly fills the sky,
cricket has become semi-visible triumph for the marginalized and completely
absent from most of the eight years old and lives.
This
does not run on Sky Sports, which - by the middle-aged, the pre-converted,
accounting for future monthly subscription - provides coverage absolutely
brilliant. And certainly, cricket will survive.
Children
can keep playing and see, attracted by the barn frowsty wearing trunks networks
and family or school or the basic joy bat and ball. If
not, perhaps, for the inspiring example of the above that - outside the bubble
of pay television, plus, of course, the enduring pleasures of radio and web -
can offer nothing but dead air.
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