For those not familiar with cricket, the terminology can seem impenetrable, with its short legs, silly points and googlies. One bit of lingo that has largely been discarded is the ‘sticky dog’, the rare phenomenon of a hot sun beating down on a rain-soaked pitch which makes batting almost impossible. While England legends of yesteryear Jack Hobbes and Herbert Sutcliffe earned cricketing immortality by scoring heavily on sticky dogs in Ashes series against Australia in the 1920s, the advent of covered pitches has meant such rain-affected batting treachery has largely been consigned to history.
The German Economy - Batting on a Sticky Dog.
The German Economy - Batting on a Sticky Dog.
The German Economy - Batting on a Sticky Dog.
For those not familiar with cricket, the terminology can seem impenetrable, with its short legs, silly points and googlies. One bit of lingo that has largely been discarded is the ‘sticky dog’, the rare phenomenon of a hot sun beating down on a rain-soaked pitch which makes batting almost impossible. While England legends of yesteryear Jack Hobbes and Herbert Sutcliffe earned cricketing immortality by scoring heavily on sticky dogs in Ashes series against Australia in the 1920s, the advent of covered pitches has meant such rain-affected batting treachery has largely been consigned to history.