Originally Posted by
Optimistic Nick
that is a quality ringer!
While I was at uni, one of the guys in my halls had a schoolmate who was an electrician who for reasons I never really understood, chose to live with us in the second and third years. Anyway, this electrician was good at cricket. He was part of the England setup at youth level, and at various times in his life has earned half-decent money from the game in various countries and roles. My mate took him along to training for the uni cricket team, and he was the best by a mile. Nobody checked if he was actually a student, he didn't say he wasn't, and ended up in the first team, scoring more runs by a mile than anyone else in the team that season. This was despite him batting left-handed - he never let on that he was actually a right handed batsman. And was in fact a bowler, not a batsman.