Cricket The Game of Life by Scyld Berry

Author:Scyld Berry [Berry, Scyld]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473618589
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2016-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

Because the Kingston Test was not filmed or televised, readers who were not there – without images to cloud their memories – can judge the extent to which words can convey the reality of it. I would say, but then I would as a cricket correspondent, that words can go a considerable way towards conveying the reality of a match. Following the game on radio, or the ball-by-ball commentary on Cricinfo, we can picture the action in part and feel all of the tension being ratcheted up as a close finish approaches.

From the objectivity of ringside, it is easier for a reporter or spectator to see which team is winning than it is for a player. What a reporter cannot convey is what it is like to be out in the middle of the match he is covering. What we miss if we are not playing, or umpiring, is not the detail of the action – the slow-motion television camera, and Spidercam, can now see more than any human being – so much as the essential character of the protagonists. I learned more about James Anderson in one net session, where the England media were allowed to participate, than in watching him from a distance for a decade. Even though it was in an indoor school in Hobart, where he had been hanging around like an unemployed teenager on a street corner, the moment Anderson took hold of a ball and mooched back to his mark, a wild energy came over him. It propelled him on to the prairies, the wind in his mane, making one mettlesome colt into a stallion.

When we babble of green fields, language cannot answer our questions about how many runs have been scored or wickets taken, or how much time has been lost to rain, without the aid of numbers. But the written or spoken word can still tell us to a large extent about what happened in a cricket match, and how it happened, and why.

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