THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY MATCH

Signed

Signed, inscribed with title and ‘The annual Sherlock Holmes Society XI versus P G Wodehouse Society XI (‘The Gold Bats’). Played at West Wycombe CC Buckinghamshire’, and dated ‘June 2022’ on reverse Oil on canvas 17 ½ x 32 inches

“When I was a youngster playing club cricket, our Sunday Captain would bat number eleven and let everyone else have a bowl. Occasionally, when the opposition were losing too many wickets and struggling, so as to make a game of it, he would bring himself on to bowl leg breaks (that didn’t really break from leg!). ‘I’ll bowl a few oaters’ he would say. And he did. And the opposition would muster up a few more runs nally being able to declare and therefore make a game of it. So every time I see a couple of clouds that I would call ‘ oaters’ they always remind me of my old Sunday Captain. There is every chance these paintings may turn into a series because I can’t resist a low oating cloud!”

Signed Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated 2020 on reverse Oil on canvas

“It was traditional for the Australians to play their Ashes Tour opener in England at Worcester. In four innings there Bradman made three double hundreds and a single hundred! He spent so much time batting there, that once an urgent telegram for him had to be handed to him by the postman, personally, while he was still out on the ground batting.”

“The rst ball of the 150th Anniversary of the oldest cricket festival in the world.”