News from the front is sketchy and this report will have to
be based on a couple of intercepts of communiques pulled out of the ether. The first was grave and came in at 16.19 from
Fred Keeling: ‘Rascals doing very poorly. 50-6. I got out for 7 or 6 not great’. 17 minutes later we received ‘It’s a bowler’s
square today’. At this point, despite
the best efforts of GCHQ, we lost all contact with the lads until this was
found in one of Ant Lund’s dead drops:
This was not a good sign, but was followed up by a rather
cryptic message from out dear leader and field commander: ‘a close run game analysis
to follow’. There were also unsubstantiated
sightings of our brave boys in the area of Three Legged Cross (an area renowned
for bogging down even the most seasoned of campaigners), but we have no idea
what they were doing there and cannot corroborate these.
Only two more messages have been received, but they do give
small reason to hope at least. The first
from Gunner Jamie Mackwood shortly after 21 hundred hours ‘Jez’s blinding catch
at slip….. moment of the match’ followed some 20 minutes by another mention of
him in dispatches from the skipper ‘It was a classic, pretty much knocking
Bealby off the top slip catch’
Since that our listening stations have all been on full
alert, but have picked up no more scraps and hope is fading fast for those
brave few.
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