Wednesday's Legends of Cricket Art Deco Match. Photo / Paul Taylor
Author Bill Bryson said he disagreed that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively - "that was merely an unintended side effect".
He went on to say it's the only sport with meal breaks, the only sport that shares a
name with an insect and the only sport where spectators burn more calories than players.
One can only assume he was talking test cricket.
And one can only assume he was never witness to anything like the inspired show at Wednesday's Legends of Cricket Art Deco Match which, as compere Wayne Mowat said, was "quite a thing".
Clifton County Cricket Club's pitch presented like a scene off Field of Dreams, a verdant-green turf that materialised from hectares of painfully dry farmland.
