Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
We had tickets for the Second Test between England and South Africa at Old Trafford, and what a brilliant day we had. The first thing that struck us was the view from Point (our stand at you guessed it point). The second thing was the crowd itself. Friendly, noisy indeed as the day went on one could say boisterous. But it wasn't only the cricket that got the crowd's interest.......... There was always something going on in the crowd...passing the beach balls was one thing...as also model planes and hundreds of frisbees made out of beer trays..... One thing copied from The Hundred crowd was making the longest snake out of empty beer containers, and this must be something of a record.......the stewards always tried to break this up and got good-humoured booing as their reward. A thankless task anyhow.....they didn't really succeed. As it happens there was some excellent cricket going on too. We saw Foulkes and England captain Stokes each make a century. We saw the fastest bowler in the world - South Africa's Rabada. And the most successful fast bowler of all time - Lancashire's Jimmy Anderson. The cricket throughout was scintillating, and evn better established a winning poistion for England. They duly took the honours by an innings next day. Standing and applause all round for Foulke's century.......
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