Ged writes:
The attached photograph is a monk at the Rumtek monastery in Sikkim brandishing a cricket bat. It is my own photo and the monk enthusiastically volunteered to be photographed.
Rumtek monastery is a very holy and unusual place. The monks are black hats, which is an unusual strand of Buddhism. One can only wonder at how this lad ended up in the monastery when his enthusiasms so obviously seem to lie elsewhere.
Here is a page from their website, outlinining their ‘one-day practices‘. I wonder what the monks do for first class or Test practices?
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March 17, 2009 at 10:45 am
i hope he’s planning to bring that bat down straight or he’s liable to nick off. see chris adams circa 1999 or mike atherton circa 2001.
i don’t really know what circa means.
March 17, 2009 at 11:20 am
There’s not enough questions about Latin words in comments comparing Buddhist monks to Derbyshire players these days. You used to get it all the time; now you rarely see it.
March 17, 2009 at 1:03 pm
If the New Zealanders were Buddhist, they would be Black Hats.
They’d punch above their weight in one-day Buddhism as well.
March 17, 2009 at 1:14 pm
They do have plans for 7-day matches, it seems. Not sure what their plans are, but that’s the ineffable thing about it all.
Circa comes from circus, referring to the fact that the big top is circular, or “a round”. It can also be used to refer to the unexpected appearance of assorted beasts, natch.
March 17, 2009 at 1:18 pm
natch?
March 17, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Sikkim could have produced great cricketers if there was even one piece of land that was not at a 40 degree incline…. and less than 5000 feet above sea level…
March 17, 2009 at 1:33 pm
What a great photo!
It’s good to see that not everybody plays on flat-tracks these days.
March 17, 2009 at 1:36 pm
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=natch
Pick one. Possibly no.5.
March 17, 2009 at 1:42 pm
It’s got to be no5 Mahinda. That’s brilliant.
March 17, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Because I have all my front teeth, and never suffer from heavy colds, does that preclude me from using definition 5?
March 17, 2009 at 2:48 pm
matt, you are clearly precluded from using ‘natch at any point.
March 17, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Not sure what you mean, Miriam, that track is an absolute road.
March 17, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I fuckin don’t like the fuckin Housemartins.
March 17, 2009 at 10:20 pm
How did the bat get there…….?
March 18, 2009 at 5:57 am
That is frickin awesome.
March 18, 2009 at 10:58 am
He appears to be the right handed Lara, Brian’s bat used to point to third man in his backlift at times.
March 19, 2009 at 2:21 am
the monk who bought your bat?!
March 21, 2009 at 6:44 am
No, Ankit.
KC also thought the bat might have been mine, but I assure you all that the monk came out to greet us brandishing his own (or the monastery’s) bat.