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That's sad news, Benny was a big part of my early jazz listening 30 years ago, via the Moanin' and Groovin' with Golson albums in particular.

I see that Gap have come up with a Monk T-shirt. Alas, @Rabshakeh, it appears to be a US only release. https://southcentremall.com/shop/product/thelonious-monk-graphic-t-shirt-gap-362fa0

I bought a copy of Kaleidoscope a couple of weeks back, and inside was a nicely-preserved copy of the programme for the tour you mention. I took a pic but it's about 5Mb too large for me to upload here, unfortunately.

@Rabshakeh - you could buy this at Abercrombie & Fitch last year

Rinku Singh famously hit 30 off the last 5 balls to win an IPL match last year: And the infamous last over of the T20 World Cup final in 2016, when West Indies needed 19 off the final over:

Indeed. My other thought was that it could have been a little-known genre of music coming out of Bristol and Bath

I bought some records recently, and on the inner sleeve of a Harry Beckett LP is written the date and "LP in good shape but music clever avon garde?"

True enough

Well, to get even more confusing, in The Hundred, a bowler can bowl two "sets" (there are 5-ball sets in The Hundred, rather than 6-ball overs) consecutively, from the same end.

You get a similar mix in England. For bigger games, there are usually stands dedicated to certain groups. You get member's areas, "family" (alcohol-free) stands, and at Old Trafford, the "Party Stand". The latter, as you can imagine, gets quite raucous. It's usually good-natured (lots of singing and a beer snake or two), but perhaps not for the purist. I had good fun the twice I sat there.

Big win for TSK - match report please, including food and mid-innings entertainment, if any?

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If a bowler bowls a ball which does not pitch (hit the ground) before it reaches the batsman, it is known as a full toss. If a full toss reaches the batsman at waist height it is a no-ball. When a fast bowler bowls a full toss which reaches the batsman at waist high or above, it is called a "beamer", which is both a no-ball, a cause for a warning from the umpire, and very much frowned upon if in any way deliberate. You don't get many deliberate beamers in cricket, they're usually the result of a misfire on the bowler's part. Full tosses are usually dispatched to any part of the park the batsman wishes, although in club cricket the full toss is a deadly delivery. The batsman's eyes light up as he throws the bat at it, quite often resulting in him spooning a catch or missing it completely and being bowled. I took many of my club cricket wickets with full tosses.

The batsman Brian Close was forty-five years old in that clip.