01.18.05
“Your pitch then Hoggy”
Some lovely cricket writing this morning on Hoggy’s Test, too much of it hidden behind registration screens.
The pick of the bunch must be Mike Selvey’s homely anecdote:
A brief conversation on the eve of the game, a statement rather than a question, was revealing: “Your pitch then Hoggy.” He just grinned and made that wristy two- fingered glove-puppet motion that fast bowlers like to make when suggesting seam movement. He knew that this was his time and he had the wherewithall to make it count.
OK, I’ll stop going on about it now, I promise.