On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four calling birds.
Except nobody really knows what a calling bird is. Cleverclogs suggest that originally the reference was to the colley bird, which is what blackbirds were called in the middle ages. Maybe, maybe, thinks Fantasy Bob. But more likely, in his view, is it a complete mishearing by a cloth-eared minstrel with no knowledge of cricket.
For the cricketer would hear correctly the tribute to the type of player every team needs, a contributor with bat, ball in the field and to team spirit and moral.
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Four Collingwoods.
Well worth having. England's top ODI scorer and the skipper who took them to victory in the 2010 T20 World Championships. Paul Collingwood announced his retirement from Test cricket almost a year ago.
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| 206 v Australia December 2006 Adelaide |
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| 6 for 31 v Bangladesh June 2005 Trent Bridge |
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| 120* v Australia Feb 2007 Melbourne |
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| The catch of the century - Perth December 2010 Ponting c Collingwood b Anderson 12 |
Looking forward to five. Seems a good excuse for an anti London 2012 rant (with which I will probably agree).
ReplyDeleteNot quite a rant but a good guess. FB is ashamed to be so predictable.
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