Its a slow day, so here goes...
A Yorkshire man had emigrated to America, but still used to receive news from home by mail.
One day, he got the following telegram:
'Regret father died this morning STOP
Early hours. Funeral Wednesday STOP
Yorkshire two hundred and one for six STOP
Boycott not out ninety six.'
After the Rev. David Sheppard had dropped a catch off his bowling - You might keep your eyes shut when your praying, Vicar, but I wish you'd keep 'em open when I'm bowling.
Fred Trueman (1963)
In the 1970s, two dedicated Yorkshiremen were at the match. One discovered that he'd left his wallet at home and friend offered to go back for it. He returned pale and shaken.
'I've got bad news for thee, Bob. Your wife s run off and left thee, and your house 'as burned to the ground!'
'I've got worse news for thee, lad. Boycott's out.'
When England Captain George Mann hit South African left arm
spinner for six during a John Arlott commentary, the peerless
one described it as "Mann's inhumanity to Mann."
Once told by a warwickshire player .... they had just had a good stuffing from
Yorkshire and they were feeling pretty sorry for themselves while they towelled
down after a shower when in came a bearded old bloke with a cricket book in
hand .... "Mr. Brown, I'm a Yorkshire Count-ry-member", to which David
Brown replied, "yeah, I remember" and all the Warwickshire players fell
about laughing, with the old bloke still trying to figure it out, got his
book autographed and went away shaking his head.
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