Two very different ball games
Budleigh Salterton Cricket Club, scene of a recent heart-stopping drama I'm sometimes asked why my blog doesn't cover sports news. I decided fairly early on that I couldn't cover everything, and in any case the local press does a good job in that respect. But probably the main reason for my omission is simply that I don't get fired up about sports results, and that's probably something to do with my poor head for figures and maybe a lack of spatial awareness. I find it impossible to enthuse about a favourite football team's league position. Off-side rules just leave me confused. As for tennis scoring... well, I do try, every Wimbledon, to work out who's winning, but end up feeling my wife's pitying looks. Of course interesting sports events do occur here. Just the other day we were all enthralled by the headline-grabbing story of how a cricket player's life was saved on Budleigh Salterton cricket ground by the swift use of a defibrillator. Luckily th...