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"And Tegan?" Erimen prompted before the Doctor could get into his stride. "Where is she?"

"Hmm? Oh, Tegan? She's in the ground somewhere." He allowed himself a slight smirk. "She's Austrialian, so she's not looking forward to the end of the match." He wafted a hand. "Try third man."

"Wasn't that a movie?" Peri asked.

"Possibly," the Doctor answered sourly. "But it wasn't anything to do with this game. It's a fielding position like second slip."

"A second slip seems kind of careless after the first one." Peri smiled innocently.

"Gulley", the Doctor continued.

"There's a trench in the field? Isn't that dangerous?"

"Silly Point," the Doctor grated.

"That's like the Ministry of Silly Walks but with pointing."

The Doctor sucked in a deep breath and bit off an annoyed reply.

"Where is this fielding man we must stop Tegan from distracting?" Erimem interrupted.

The Doctor scanned the field and pointed to a tall man with fair, curly hair standing alone on the edge of the playing field. "Well, at the moment he's at quite a fine deep backwards square leg."


 * "At the close of play on the third day of the third test of the 1981 Ashes series, English cricket was being buried. Already one test down and with the captain sacked, England were following on, still two hundred adrift and one second innings wicket already lost. Journalists were preparing eulogies for the national team.


 * By the close of play on the fourth day, the corpse had shown signs taht it wasn't ready to lie down and die just yet. That defiant, belligerent 145 not out by Ian Botham had given England a slender lead. By the end of the fifth day, despite the odds of 500-1 against given by bookmakers less than twenty-four hours previously, the dead body of English cricket had risen from the grave, a Phoenix rising in this Ashes series, and England had won the match in the greatest comeback the sport had ever seen."

This fictional article supposedly comes from the National Clarion, William Jenkins-Wells, cricket reporter.