Happy Halloween to one and all with a reminder of the basic need for the spirit of cricket to be maintained at all times. The batsman in the supporting picture transformed from having a solid body into a passing spirit in the night at August’s Mississauga Cricket Festival on the path to rediscovering the spirit of cricket. The spirit of cricket itself changed with the times from spoken word passed from generation to generation to became a written pre-amble in the M.C.C.’s Laws of Cricket in relatively recent years. times.

It might not be possible to repeat the picture if the floodlights are raised higher at a 2015 Mississauga Cricket Festival, bur the traffic lights and traffic in the background might still be moving north-south, east-west, and even up and down a ramp to Highway 401 and other roads. But the number of moving lights and the batsman’s movements in playing a stroke certainly produced some spirits. So all the best for the Eve of All Hallows (the evening before All Saints day).

Perhaps if future tournaments bring in some funds for cricket in Mississauga the Courtney Park ground might be transformed to gain some hallowed turf wickets, a scoreboard (or two) and a pavilion.

The spirit of cricket must be maintained at all times. On the cricket and other sporting fields, and throughout our lives beyond the boundary.

Eddie Norfolk