To Bowl A Maiden Over
This is not about cricket, but you will need to understand one or two cricket terms here. For the benefit of those not into cricket: a maiden over is when you can bowl 6 balls in succession without conceding a single run.
When I still played cricket I was a specialist batsman coming in at #3. Nothing spectacular; just a sturdy club player that you would rather have in your own team than with the opponents.
However, I was a ghastly bowler, mainly because I refused to bowl in the nets, but I was often used to break partnerships. I would spray them all over the show. I was treated with utter disrespect and hit all over the park; if they could only get to the ball. But they paid for it in wickets.
Once I got a hat trick (3 wickets off 3 consecutive balls) off the first three balls and still went for 20 runs, including two wides.
And I have never bowled a maiden over.
But now that I no longer play cricket I’m going to bowl a maiden over; and I have decided which maiden it will be too.
So girl, if you are out there; take strike and keep your stumps covered. I’m coming for you. It’s is not going to help to stand there blocking every ball. I’m going to bowl my maiden over and with the last ball of the over I’m going to send your bails flying.
A maiden wicket is so much sweeter than just bowling a maiden over.
The moral of the story? You don’t have to be a good bowler to bowl a maiden over – you must just pitch your balls at the right place.
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I must, alas, away to work. Sowing, fishing, it's all the same, really, don't you think:
...with each phase of the foray
and each line
that she dropped,
she plumbed depth
and character:
currents below
and aloft...
Gotta go and inspect my array of dazzling lures. Bye, bye, bye!
Eventually, the unguided ship loses its bearing and is lost...
(Fiction and fact from Callaghan's Almanac!)
Not only surrendered, but also without words. Speechless and defeated!