Our village cricket pitch shares a field with an
ancient stone circle. When the team fielding is down a player or two we
allow them to recruit the mysterious stones to assist. If the ball
strikes the stone without bouncing the batsman is out. I think the
cavemen would be delighted to know their sacred construction still has
use. The stones are not allowed to bowl.
Legend
has it that on stormy autumnal nights during a full moon the stones do
nothing; they just stand there like they have done for thousands of
years. This is superstitious nonsense. I’ve seen them practising in
the nets.
The stones attract many Druids
who are drawn to their supposed mystical power. But the power doesn’t
seem to protect them from being struck by cricket balls. Last Sunday
four dented Druids were stretchered off the pitch. Animosities boiled
over and the High Priest had a fist fight with the Captain of the Second
Eleven.
I wonder whose side the cavemen would have been on.
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