Liberate Michigan

However some commentators are ramping up the pressure for an early end to the lockdown.  While Fantasy Bob would not have been surprised if cricketers were significant among their number - for they are increasingly eager to get back on the field of play as the weather slowly becomes more spring like, he must acknowledge that there is an obvious absence of cricketing credentials in the loudest voices advocating this policy.   It is unlikely that many of them would walk when they nicked off. 

Cricketers by and large are sensible persons and even the most desperate to feel the bat on the ball again might, in current circumstances, have pause to think before packing their kit and heading off to nets with several thousand others in close proximity.

And yet the normally genial President of the USA has encouraged his supporters to do just that and wills them to acts of insurrection against the laws of cricket (and of lesser importance possibly also the laws of the USA). 'Liberate Michigan,' he screams on Twitter, as his supporters stage rallies in which they run on the wicket, tamper with the ball and openly disregard the umpire's authority.  That they require to carry automatic weapons to do this seems against the spirit of cricket.

Fantasy Bob is by no means an expert on captaincy, as anyone who has played under him will readily attest.  Nevertheless he feels that this is a radical departure from the sort of captaincy that Mike Brearley might recognise.  Batting on what is most definitely a bowl first wicket, FB can just about understand, but this is something beyond that. 

There are many conclusions FB could come to in observing these behaviours.  The one thing of which he is sure is that had Mr Trump an understanding of cricket, an appreciation of its laws and a feeling for the spirit of the game, his fellow citizens might be less likely to lose early wickets.