Cricketers in Action
The Inky Zen of the Noble Game...
NB: JB edits The Canard, ironically pompous newsletter of the Riviera Cricket Club...
Recent issues are to be found at:
JUNE 2006: cricketers/joon06.pdf
APRIL 2006: cricketers/feb06a.pdf
For his thoughts on recent events, see Ball-Tampering & Hair-Razing...
Riviera Cricket Club
Grand Raffle
left: Wily Spinner MMVI; old ink on old paper; c.30 x 20 cms
right: Sudden onset of sunset over Anthéor on the Esterel Coast
oil on canvas; ix.V; 56 x 78 cms
For the 2006 Grand Raffle to be held on 14th October to help raise funds for the re-laying of the Sacred Turf at St.Vallier, JB has donated a painting of the Esterel Coast (above), valued at 1,500/2,000 €uros...
There are 50 tickets at 30 €uros each and they can be had by contacting Solomon Ani on
Each of the tickets is itself a limited edition print of a specially executed Chinese ink "Wily Spinner" drawing, also above, and the drawing will be the 2nd prize in the Grand Raffle. It is in old ink on old 'calque' paper and, measuring roughly the size of A4, comes nicely framed & mounted...
Cricketers at it...
— a sequence of ink drawings...
"With the meat of the bat..." and "Off the toes..."
"Through the gate..."
"The
Umpire, with sweaters & hats,
signals 'Wide'..."
"The
Wily Spinner", I & II...
to be continued . . .
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