IF If you go in number one and can be there batting till the end, and, on the way score fours and sixes – despite the loss of every friend. If you can fend the fiery ball which flies across your chest, then, hook the next for six, and likewise with the rest; and be not-out with one hundred to your name, and equal this with every game – but, bear no grudge should your batting partner run you out...yet still, next game, be prepared to run the ‘seemingly’ chancy run when it’s his shout. If you take the ball when it becomes your turn, and bowl ‘good line and length’ to cause concern, and then proceed to hit off-stump and then leg, and in between time, knock down middle-peg. If you can catch all balls which come your way, but, refrain from showing theatrical display, and sprint like Christie* around the boundary edge, and cut-off certain fours before they reach the hedge. If you can ‘keep’ behind the sticks, and have ‘hands of glue’ with all the batsmen’s snicks, and, fling yourself to off and leg, to stop each ball which passes by each peg; then whip-off bails with the speed of sound, before a batsmen can regain his ground. If you can give your time when help is asked for, and accept a ‘thank you’ as a fair reward, and pay your sub when subscriptions are requested – yet, not be mopy on the days you are not selected, but smile and give the team your full support. If you always give your best, whether the cause be lost or won – then, you will have reached the zenith in ‘The Field of Dreams,’ and – which is more – you’ll be a man my son! *Linford not Agatha A.S.Hill