Riffing on the theme of cricket in the US, Alex decides to pick an XI of American presidents. He has George Washington as an 'obdurate opening batsman' and Truman as a 'nagging, easily under-estimated medium-pacer'. Alex wonders if the exercise is silly. I can assure him that it is not. (What I would take issue with, though, is his uncritical view of Joseph O'Neill's Netherland.)
Talking of cricket XIs, I'd also like to note that what normblog brings - thanks to the researches of Bob Borsley - to the reading public in early 2008, others only get to more than a year later (scroll to the bottom).
