School sport levels just aren't cricket ; Oogly. Just backward of square. The corridor of uncertainty. Cover drives. Good "areas". The arm ball. If jargon like this makes any kind of sense to you, news that fewer than one in 10 children plays cricket at school will be cause for alarm.

From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) | Date: May 13, 2008 | Copyright information

Oogly. Just backward of square. The corridor of uncertainty. Cover drives. Good "areas". The arm ball. If jargon like this makes any kind of sense to you, news that fewer than one in 10 children plays cricket at school will be cause for alarm.

With the one Freddie Flintoff we do have as injury-prone as a five-year-old on a bicycle, the chances of finding another barn- storming England all-rounder any time soon look bleak.

We may as well let the Aussies keep the Ashes indefinitely...

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