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The Nightwatchman SAMPLE EDITION WINTER32 2020 THE NightwatchmanTHE WISDEN CRICKET QUARTERLY SAMPLER THE NIGHTWATCHMAN ISSUE 32 – WINTER 2020 THE THE WISDEN CRICKET QUARTERLY Nightwatchman Matt Thacker introduces issue 32 of the Nightwatchman Justin Paul writes a letter to his two-year-old son Cricket’s past has been enriched by great writing and Wisden is making sure its future will be too. The Nightwatchman is a quarterly collection of essays and long-form articles and Jonathan Rice has been editing the editors is available in print and e-book formats. Ross English looks back to a Caribbean crisis Co-edited by Anjali Doshi and Tanya Aldred, with Matt Thacker as managing editor, The David Griffin has some tales of Derbyshire’s PA announcers Nightwatchman features an array of authors from around the world, writing beautifully and at length about the game and its myriad offshoots. Contributors are given free rein over Stephen Connor is happy living in a fantasy world subject matter and length, escaping the pressures of next-day deadlines and the despair of cramming heart and soul into a few paragraphs. There are several different ways to get hold of and enjoy The Nightwatchman. You can David Hopps tries to work out what he thinks of Geoffrey Boycott subscribe to the print version and get a free digital copy for when you’re travelling light. If you don’t have enough room on your book case, you can always take out a digital-only Geoffrey at 80 – images over the decades subscription. Or if you’d just like to buy a single issue – in print, digital or both – you can Harry Pearson used to think well of Boycott... do that too. Take a look at the options below and decide which is best for you. 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My father, 91 now, tells an old army If his cricketing career is any guide, story (post-war, in Nottinghamshire) that means those looking on will be about how he once gate-crashed the split roughly 50-50 as to whether officers’ mess for a sergeant major’s they want him to reach his century. drinks party. “What are you doing here, As for me, I was fortunate enough to laddie?” asked the sergeant major, a cover the last three years of his first- brusque Scouser. “You’d better make class career. For the sake of an easy your mind up what side of the fence story, I wanted him to make either 0, you are going to fall on. And when 99 or 100 and more. As nought has you fall off that fence, woe betide you long since become an impossibility if you fall off on the wrong side.” He because of the miracles of childbirth, never did fall off that fence. He didn’t then naturally I wish him a minimum want the hassle. He won’t take sides of 19 hale and hearty years ahead. Let on Boycott either. For what follows, I the Ginseng tablets do their work. blame my dad. An unhealthy number of you will already A few guidelines I’m trying to follow: be wondering: “Yes, but is he for him or ag’in him?” Only Kevin Pietersen, among Boycs has occasionally been good to cricketers, has ever divided opinion me, so I should value that. to a comparable extent in my lifetime. Boycott is the Brexit of cricket, a tell- Boycs has appalled me, so I shouldn’t it-straight soothsayer for the masses really forgive him. or crass, rude and full of his own self- importance. And now it appears that I Boycs has also infuriated my have to decide how nicely to sing “Happy daughter, and rightly so, but it did Birthday” to the Old Curmudgeon. make me laugh. THENIGHTWATCHMAN.NET 4 SAMPLER THE NIGHTWATCHMAN My daughter, to deal with that one What has been quite a shock to low-key departure in the Centenary a Yorkshireman – he did not go first, had a student job at Costcutter realise is not that Boycott is 80, but Test between England and Australia happily. He initially sought to be noble supermarket in Boston Spa, the well- that he appears to have entered at Lord’s in 1980. Photographers about his first summer in retirement, to-do West Yorkshire village where retirement. It has taken a global scrambled onto the Lord’s pavilion explaining that on top of his recovery Boycott put his Georgian mansion pandemic to give BBC executives an roof to capture the moment. Boycott, from throat and tongue cancer he had up for sale last year at a cool £2.85m. excuse – a backbone perhaps – to coincidentally, played a part in that also recently had a quadruple heart Boycs would commonly make a carry out a cull some have wanted as the batsman on strike. The words by-pass operation and that a bio- sandwich order at the deli counter and to undertake for several years. were deliberately commonplace but secure Covid-responsive environment when he was informed one day that Tensions would build up during the are held to be famous: “Bright again, was hardly conducive to his recovery. regrettably there were no wholemeal year over Boycott’s more outrageous going round the wicket to the right- Facing up to the possibility of baps left, he gestured across the road outpourings on the airwaves but he handed Boycott, and they manage impending death – and Boycott has at a rival bakers and said brusquely: knew how to charm whenever a new to run two. And that’s the end of the known it twice – can have a calming “You’ll know where to get ’em then, contract was in the offing. over, 69 for 2, and after Trevor Bailey effect. But it couldn’t last and when I’ll be back in ten minutes.” After a it will be Christopher Martin-Jenkins.” he put his memorabilia up for sale heated internal debate, the manager I’m not as much nuanced about Boycott As Arlott stared into the distance from he railed: “It’s all about political made the journey my daughter as conflicted. I slumbered through his the old wooden Lord’s commentary correctness, gender and race.” He refused to make, remarking, with an most laborious late-career innings but box, heavy-jowled and rheumy-eyed, departed as we suspected he must, obsequiousness of which Uriah Heep I was captivated by every moment Lord’s deigned to afford him a PA as a fully paid-up poster boy for the would have been proud, that it was of others, intrigued by the ceaseless announcement and applause followed besieged, white, elderly, alt-right male. not right to offend “Sir Geoffrey” – desire for perfection from a batsman from his colleagues, the crowd and common terminology in Yorkshire at who did not as much rage against the players alike. At times it appears to be a physical least 40 years before he was knighted dying of the light as plan meticulously impossibility for a Yorkshireman to for real. My daughter still doesn’t against it. I’ve nodded furiously in By the time Henry Blofeld’s final leave something without a row. It’s entirely understand why I find that agreement at the unadorned honesty commentary stint died away 27 part character defect, part cultural story funny and I tell her it must be of his TV and radio analysis, but that’s years later, a more self-indulgent age obligation. Leave something you some sort of protective mechanism. only if I haven’t managed to get to was upon us and the old ham’s final love and years later a memory flies the off switch first. I like my cricket commentary reflected it. There would randomly into your brain and you In that same village, Boycott made commentators (and summarisers) to be no more “Dear Old Things”, and can find yourself choking up without a gesture last year that reveals be mellifluous above all else, possessed buses and pigeons could finally go warning. But leave on a row, imagining his capacity for loyalty, duty and of a sonorous, or at least an interesting about their work without comment, but all manner of injustices, and when community. On 14 July 2019, the day voice, a voice worthy of a beautiful he lapped it up one last time.
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