{"id":19557,"date":"2024-03-16T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T05:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2024-03-16T06:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T06:03:21","slug":"lost-ball-the-final-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/lost-ball-the-final-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Ball\/The Final Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just over twenty years ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was lucky enough <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To attend the final test <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between England and India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a very tight match <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which was decided by the last ball <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">F.W.J.Spencer hit an enormous six <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">England won by two runs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the match was surrounded in mystery <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the last ball was never found <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It simply disappeared after it had left Spencer&#8217;s bat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am the only person who knows where the ball is now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I found it in the back of my green jeep <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning after the game <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I was tempted I never returned the ball<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It now sits on my mantelpiece in Deal <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between the mirror clock and my ceramic bus <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over twenty years ago I was lucky enough To attend the final test Between England and India It was a very tight match Which was decided by the last ball F.W.J.Spencer hit an enormous six England won by two runs But the match was surrounded in mystery As the last ball was never found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19562,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions\/19562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}