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TUBBBIES SERVE UP A FEAST FOR ALL

by
The Cricket Paper Team
2 August 2020

MARTIN JOHNSON

When Gatting got food posoning, a wag said ‘have you narrowed it down to 13 dishes?’
Sitting down to watch the cricket on the opening day of the Old Trafford Test, I thought I must have pressed the wrong button on the remote and had somehow managed to tune in to the Grand Sumo Highlights on Sky’s NHK Japan Channel.
On closer inspection, however, I realised that the unset human jelly on the screen was wearing flannels rather than a nappy, and that the person the cameraman had zoomed in on for a close up was a West Indian cricketer fielding at first slip...