Famous Cricket Fans

Just read that Siegfried Sassoon was quite a fan.

Demelza wrote:Just read that Siegfried Sassoon was quite a fan.

His son Vidal is quite a decent offie I hear

Not the hairdresser?

Demelza wrote:Just read that Siegfried Sassoon was quite a fan.

I can remember reading that he played for his village team ubtil he was about 80 or something

Vikas

Demelza wrote:Just read that Siegfried Sassoon was quite a fan.

If you read the first volume of his "autobiography" -- Memoirs of a fox-hunting man -- it describes his early cricketing adventures at some length . . .

Of course, Alec Waugh (Evelyn's brother, not Steve's) was a keen cricketer and life-long fan . . .

Mick Jagger seems to get around a bit as well.

Eric Clapton
Mick Jagger
Hugh Grant
John Major
Frank Skinner
Jeremy Paxman
Daniel Radcliffe
Stephen Fry
Phil Neville
Russell Crowe
Michael Parkinson
Tim Rice
Desmond Tutu

Brian May

Originally, Arthur Conan Doyle named his detective Sherrinford Holmes, after Oliver Wendell Holmes - and named Holmes’s sidekick Ormand Sacker. But during the three weeks it took to write the story, Doyle renamed the characters Sherlock Holmes, after a cricket player he had once played against . . .

No shite sherlock?

When he was at Robben Island, Mandela is reputed to have asked whether Don Bradman was still alive.

tac wrote:

Demelza wrote:Just read that Siegfried Sassoon was quite a fan.

If you read the first volume of his "autobiography" -- Memoirs of a fox-hunting man -- it describes his early cricketing adventures at some length . . .

I know. I read it.

Demelza wrote:

tac wrote:

Demelza wrote:Just read that Siegfried Sassoon was quite a fan.

If you read the first volume of his "autobiography" -- Memoirs of a fox-hunting man -- it describes his early cricketing adventures at some length . . .

I know. I read it.

Then how is it that you just came to understand that Sassoon was a cricket fan?

Cos I read the book before I was a cricket fan, when I was about 15 at school and I just saw that article.

So you needed to be a cricket fan to understand that Sassoon was a cricket fan? Goodnees, me . . .

You know what I mean.

No, sorry, but I don't . . .

It's a book I read years and years ago when I was studying the wars at school and at the time of reading it I had no interest in cricket so it's not an association I've ever made in my mind. Therefore, when I just saw that link, I was rather interested in it.

Did you have wars at school? Were they fun to study?

Yes, I love history.
Bye tac.
Abyssinia.

Was that an experimental haiku?

Winkle Spinner wrote:Was that an experimental haiku?

I would never dare
Trying to write a haiku
Can you imagine!