Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 9th January 2022
Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:
1. It’s been a big sporting week here in The Vize, but on Thursday local hopes received a set-back when international Fart-Wrangling champion Novax Jock-Itch was refused an entry visa when he arrived on the 49 bus service into TrowVegas on the basis that he was too much of a knob to be allowed entry. Mr Jock-Itch has now been incarcerated in a 1-star hotel, where he is being served large portions of Humble Pie for his every meal.
2. But the town’s cricketers have covered themselves in glory after holding out for seventeen days and over 500 overs of hostile bowling from The Sham’s attack in the 47th Test Match. Scoring only seven runs in their first innings, the tourists were set the unlikely target of 4,605 runs to win in difficult conditions. Losing their first nine wickets for only 11, D-Town’s last two batsmen, Phil MacAvity and Barry Cade played a brilliant rear-guard action to hold on for the draw. Failing to score at one point for nearly 58 overs, the two men professed themselves well pleased with a job well done. Yet again it has been proved that cricket is the king amongst games, representing the pinnacle of human achievement.
Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2022
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