Invite her to nets as before.
Get all the people who can bowl really hard to do so.
How long do we reckon she would last?
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We’ll just run through some of the more challenging deliveries - this one’s a bouncer …
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Get all the people who can bowl really hard to do so.
How long do we reckon she would last?
[/quote]About 6 to 8 balls. There’s no need to hurt her just make it clear to her that it’s not just a matter of fancying a go. All that motivational bllx about “If you want to then you can” and the like need blowing out of the water.
… AND she’s picking on Molly, the Button.
Booooooo. Boooooo
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You’re wrong there, my friend. Very.
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OK. I was just trying to be nice.
But the fear of God would be instilled into her by proper bowling.
20 years ago I faced West Indian international bowler Collis King. He was huge, took an enormous run-up and arrived at the wicket at tremendous speed none of which was lost in the delivery. I was genuinely scared. I waved my bat around aimlessly and his first ball clipped the shoulder of my bat and the sheer speed of the ball took it for 4 over the wicketkeeper. I think my eyes were closed while this happened.
He was not happy.
The next ball I waved my bat around again with closed eyes. I heard wood clatter & to my blessed relief I was off for a bit of a lie down.
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Collis King? Oooof. Collis Browne might have been in order.
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There really ought to be a sudden cow in her parlour. (“But you said you liked cows, Missus Franks.”)
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I think a leg break, don’t you? Perhaps two would be excessive.
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I rather think there already is.
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That would go well with the statue of Ganesh, or whichever of the pantheon it was.
And if she’s a sincere Hindu, would she be able to shoo it out? I think they are meant to let cows do whatever they want to, aren’t they?
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Ah - so that’s how Amy gets away with it.
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Tsk. That’s not charitable, joe. She couldn’t help it; she had no choice; she was in love!
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Not entirely. Shooing is ok. Mistreating is not. The figure is Śiva, one of the Trimurti, Ganesh’s dad. It’s not really a pantheon, more aspects of the One, as represented by Śiva dancing in Bunter’s study.