The score is moving along nicely

A game of cricket was being played against a local prestigious independent school.  We, the away side, batted first and scored an unexpected but creditable number of runs.

The home side side then batted and were notching up runs very rapidly.  The umpire, at the bowler’s end, was kept busy signalling to the score box which was manned by a couple of their non playing team members.

Upon yet another four being signalled by their cricket master, he noticed that the mobile score box was not where he expected it to be.

Unbeknown to both both umpires, several our travelling spectators had locked the scorers in the score box and ‘transported’ them a good 50-75  metres around the boundary.

We never played them again !