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<strong>Twenty</strong> Seasons OnCastle. I can see now in the sunshine Don, Greg, Laurie,Paddy....and some young folk. We enjoyed the day atHeadingley and the time JA gave up to entertain us but wewill not dwell on the Old Trafford happenings. The raincould not be helped but I felt the Lancashire players were lessthan hosts. I was ashamed.Our paths next crossed when your Ambassador to England toplay at Neston in 1986 visited us - by name, Michael Kovacs.What a splendid young man you had sent to us, in every waya lovely guest. I imagine some are smiling, but they'd betternot let me see them!! Michael was great company and stillwrites to us very regularly.We also played hosts to 'Jock' Mackenzie and Chris Burgesswhen they escaped from the Worsley area for a short while inthat interesting Mini.Our taste for things Australian had by now been well andtruly whetted! We spent 1988 in Sydney where I had atwelve month exchange post teaching mathematics at SydneyGrammar School. In truth, it was a plan to see as muchcricket as possible and to do as much umpiring as possible.To this end I wrote well in advance to the NSWCUA andfound them very welcoming indeed. They are a mostimpressive set of people. They accepted my English"qualifications" without demur. I did hope to do some ACTgames as well. In fact to enable me to stand at a 2nd gradegame between WCCC and Tuggeranong, I had to sit anexamination which in total took six hours! Ask Percy. I onlysaw my result by reading The Canberra Times on Fridaybefore the match. I did enjoy the game, not least for thefrequency and volume of the appeals 'Jock' made every timethe ball hit the pads or went close to them. He didn't get onelbw but we won easily enough. Pity I had to caution Drew G.99
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