Many, if not most, middle-class boys go through an Army Reserve Training when they are in high school. This exempts them from the draft. So the actual draftees are heavily skewed towards the working class/rural kids.
Weirdest cricket dismissals compilation:
The wickets listed below happened at different timelines and across different geo zones …
The starting point is the famous
Lillee c Willey b Dilley.
Some of the rest, past and present:
- Pope c Priest b Bishop
- Christian c Pope b Bishop
- Cook c Buttler b Kitchen
- Bird c Crowe b Robin
- Watling c Ponting b Holding
- Brown c Green b White
- Llong c Broad b Short
- Redwood c Blackwood b Underwood
- Hair c Knot b Barber
- Lamb c Sheperd b Butcher
- Onions c Rice b Cook
- Bird c Hunte b Reiffel
- Root c Flower b Rose
- Hall c Kitchen b Boothe
- Swann c Crane b Snape
- French c Holland b Finn
- Lever c Key b Lock
- Salt c Onions b Cook
- Holland c French b Scott
- Wood c Steele b Ironsides
And the best when in 1954 in Melbourne Australia, Jonathan Batter, was dismissed by Anthony Bowler caught at mid wicket by Kieth Fielder,
Batter c Fielder b Bowler.
I see we have a bunch of the "willing to fight down to the last dead Ukrainian" guys here.
Crimea was lost. It's not coming back without WW3, a NATO ground war and possible nuclear Armageddon. (Under Obama, I may add). So was the Donbass. (Under Biden)
The dying needs to stop, and the reconstruction needs to start.
One problem is that you are unlikely to find anything DIY fixable in there.
Since the easy fix (the switch) is OK, I might be tempted just to add another switch to turn off the light and have done with it.
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