PHILINFRANCE

I stand to be corrected, but I thought he was a right back.

Is he 'Gabriella' from a few days ago?

I am pretty sure I read it some time ago on this forum, but a 'double pivot' is like a single pivot, only there are two of them. I hope this helps.

More to the point, how and why would a City fan have a Sheffield Wednesday ID number? Anyway, a nice touch nevertheless.

Slowing down a bit now, though. Just the 150 from 15 overs....

Well, it seems as if we may all have been wrong. The children's nursery rhyme 'Taffy was a Welshman' has its origins in Celtic Mythology. Amaethon (from which the name Taffy is derived) was the God of Welsh Agriculture. This Celtic God Amaethon was renown for stealing a variety of wild life from the god Arawn, the Lord of the Otherworld. As stated, this would also seem to be the origin of the old nursery rhyme, 'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief'.

Thanks again for another of your interesting match previews. I did find your explanation as to the origin of the term ‘Taffies’ interesting, as I had always assumed that the Welsh, and Cardiff fans in particular, were called Taffs after the river Taff.

The lowest ever 50 over score at this ground! Having said that, is a fantastic bowling performance on the cards, just to prove it was not England’s fault, but the wicket?

And, of course, Birmingham have form for this - think Zola.

I may be wrong, but I think you will find that @TheReds’ description of Semenyo’s early days was sarcastic, and was used simply to demonstrate that, just as we hope will be the case with Yeboah, he grew from a young, naive, inexperienced and somewhat ungainly ugly duckling in to swan.

If anyone is still interested in the World Cup, try and see Rashid getting run out. Absolutely abysmal cricket.

Or, of course, the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, the sad replacement of a once great competition and yet another victim of the’100’.

Jos Buttler perhaps demonstrating how and why a constant diet of 20 over cricket is not conducive to succeeding in 50 over cricket, let alone Test Match cricket.

Many Thanks for that, and I must say this is quite some start.

I believe that is the 'Away Stand', erected and dismantled depending on works to the new stand and home games.

Please enlighten me. I have considered (and ruled out) Paul Kitson and Steve Claridge, but can’t for the life of me work out who this was.

Probably totally inappropriate, but.... A fifteen year old Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again. The boy asked, “What is this Father?” The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is.” While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed, and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number, and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond stepped out. The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son… “Go get your Mother.”

That's him. Quite amazing that he became such a great bowler, despite his arm injury. Mind you, Fred Titmus carried on playing Test Cricket after he lost some his toes following a boating accident in Barbados, and Colin Milburn (one of my favourites) persevered for a while after losing an eye, much like the Nawab of Pataudi.

Some of my earliest memories of international cricket are the West Indies superb fast bowlers - too numerous to mention - plus Lance Gibbs, whilst India had their great spinners, Bishen Bedi,Chandrasekhar (I can't remember his first name) and Venkat. I used to be glued to the BBC for days, whereas today I find it hard to even watch the current World Cup, let alone The 100.

ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP TEAM M W L PT NRR IND 5 5 0 10 1.353 NZ 5 4 1 8 1.481 SA 4 3 1 6 2.212 AUS 4 2 2 4 -0.193 PAK 5 2 3 4 -0.400 AFG 5 2 3 4 -0.969 BAN 4 1 3 2 -0.784 NED 4 1 3 2 -0.790 SL 4 1 3 2 -1.048 ENG 4 1 3 2 -1.248

I should be interested to know how many of England’s squad have actually played a 50 over match in the last year or so. Obviously, plenty of 20 over matches and the infernal 100, but not many (if any) 50 over matches. A great shame, in my opinion, as it is my favourite short form format.

As it turned out, chasing 400 exactly.

Not forgetting, of course, Southampton’s Ron Davies.

I have just this moment said to my wife that I am going to have a nice cold beer, and she has asked me to get her a glass of rosé. Santé mon ami.

Obvious, innit? One can draw water from a Well, and the missing ‘S’ was pinched from (S)Pring, from which you can also get water. Or something like that. Or just taking the water.