Apologise first of all as I accidently deleted this and all the great comments on it from my Ipernity pages earlier today. I would be very happy if anybody who had commented previously could re-instate their comments here again.

The British sport of cricket is known is known as a gentleman’s game as it so slow and relaxing. Here we have a local village match, generally played only on Sundays. Now it is generally sought by photographers to grab a shot of either, a ball being caught by a fielder or the ball hitting the wickets to get a man out! The latter is normally very difficult to get as it last for only a fraction of a moment and the ball is rarely in the frame. One can also wait for hours for the moment. Now I must admit here that I am not a great cricket fan and have attended only a handful of matches in my lifetime. On this day I was using my Canon AE1 35mm camera and had just aimed it at the stumps of the batter when I saw the ball being bowled. I shot as many frames as I could having no idea what I really got. Here is the result with a very rare ball actually hitting the wicket and driving the stumps into the air – with the cries of “How-Zat” (OUT) all around me

This from a 1976 slide.



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