By Gerald Durrell
For those who enjoyed My relations and different Animals and can’t get sufficient of the Durrells after the Corfu sequence, this is often the publication for you. It constitutes a sequence of anecdotal snippets and brief tales together with ‘The Picnic’, a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family members day trip, which must have been a calming, jolly affair. yet with the Durrells issues are seldom effortless and in this social gathering all which could get it wrong did get it wrong - other than Gerald Durrell's experience of humour in recounting the story. different hilarious and surreal Roald Dahlesque tales happen, together with the severely acclaimed Gothic horror tale ‘The Entrance’.
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And playing for Australia A in the World Series (this was the season in which the Australian Cricket Board included an Australia A combination in the World Series, to add interest to a competition that also featured England and Zimbabwe as well as the real Australian team), I found that I was able to do just that. More relaxed, I started making runs, including a hundred in a one-dayer against a similar English bowling attack to the one that had embarrassed me in the Tests. What I didn’t acknowledge at that time—and for quite a while afterwards—was that it was the pressure I put on myself during the Test matches that had stopped me playing naturally, and thus had brought me undone.
And, in essence, I discovered that nearly anything was possible; later I’d learn that plenty can go wrong as well. The last of my five hundreds came against Tasmania in Hobart, the end of a run that went 106 not out (v WA in Sydney), 20 and 104 (v SA in Adelaide), 153 not out (v Victoria in Sydney), 121 (v Queensland in Sydney) and 136 and 3 (v Tassie). The century at Bellerive against Tasmania was actually my most circumspect, including only eight fours and a six, but it was also in a sense my most critical, as we went into that game level, at the top of the Shield ladder, with Victoria, so a win and preferably an outright win was critical.
Of my many knocks in county cricket, one of my most pleasurable came on 8 May 2002, my 32nd birthday, for Leicestershire against Warwickshire at my new home ground, Grace Road. I had been struggling to that point of the season, and felt out of nick, which I put down to the fact that I was batting on wickets I wasn’t used to. On this day, the track was a slow seamer and after two hours I was no more than 20. If anyone at this point had told me county cricket was easy, I’d have given them a real rev up.