Ladies and cricket

Still, the signs of the times point to another flag: What's gone wrong ? No lady is safe anywhere, batting their eyelids, or bowling their hearts out. Surely they are not at Lord's to wield the willow, although they carry the suppleness of the latter.

Now MCC lady members would slip around the wicked keeper (the spelling correct!), and field at silly mid-on for irresistible members to spoon a catch, feigning to swing for a sixer, but delighted to fall to a dolly catch in the delicate hands of rosy beauties sipping Darjeeling tea with English water biscuits. No more maiden overs.

But the spinners would gain ground with their floaters, and the bouncers would fly low. Finger-licking spin, or palming off? Take your choice! No leg breaks or off breaks, but right on the middle stump. No variations of a theme, in this age of supper efficiency and micro appreciation. How about yorkers? What do you mean?