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It's as inevitable as a middle-order collapse or a Steve Harmison wide: sooner rather than later a cartoonist puts pen to paper and scribbles a drawing encapsulating the eccentricity, frustration, peculiarity, joy or sheer pointlessness of cricket. A game that can last five days without a result is an inviting target, even for those with no interest in it. And the jokes also work for those who find it a tedious mystery. Maybe it's the English character - to laugh at the things for which we are famous. Or perhaps cricket just provides endless opportunities to lampoon stuffiness and silliness. A personal favourite appeared in Private Eye in the 1970s. Ed McLachlan depicts a typical scene at a major, sparsely populated ground. Play has stopped, the umpire turns round in annoyance and an unseen commentator explains "…And once... [read full story]
