The old generation
Latest excuse for not blogging: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
There’s been a lot of excitement over Usain Bolt’s cricketing efforts. It seems that the world’s fastest man is not too bad with the bat or the ball. Could he be the saviour of West Indies cricket?
I’ll tell you what’s really needed – a time machine. Recent research suggests that our distant ancestors were much better than the best of us. Apparently, Australian Aborigines from 20,000 years ago could outrun Bolt. And could no doubt bowl a vicious toe crusher off a long run up. Also, your average Neanderthal women was about as strong as a Homo Sapien bodybuilder with Tendulkar’s stature, so would have no trouble sending balls over the boundary. (They were probably better bloggers too and didn’t take two week vacations from posting.)
I found these pictures of what are clearly extremely ancient cricket balls:
Klerksdorp spheres they’re called, discovered in South Africa. They are 2 million years old and made of iron compound. Our antediluvian cricketing ancestors, or whatever alien race brought cricket to earth, were hard case!
