Out-of-the-box thinking ensures a happy ending
They even play in Scotland’s north-east when others can’t. Or won’t. Take last week in this wettest of springs when Aberdeen Grammar School FPs 2nd XI were scheduled to play last season’s Grade 3 champions, Knightriders. The weather was sunny but the Rubislaw groundsman decreed that one of the bowler’s run-ups was too wet to permit play.
But Knightriders captain Mohal came up with a novel idea: bowl all the overs from the same playable end. Game on! For the record, FPs held out for a 14-point draw at 86 for 6 in reply to KR’s 199 for 8. But the real winner was cricket.