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I find it very difficult to concentrate on the game when playing cricket near an airfield or under a SID or STAR.
Only last week while playing at a lovely little Hertfordshire village a mile or so north of the approach to Luton, I must have spent as much time watching to see what aircraft types and companies were flying in as I spent searching the hedgerows for the sixes and fours that went whistling past me.
It could be psychological though: as a kid I was standing in the middle of a cricket square when a Hawker Hunter dived into the deck only 300 yards away after the pilot ejected at 12000ft or so.
Even since then I have looked up on hearing any type of aircraft engine - even when batting.
Despite this handicap when playing last week I got a few wickets and runs and did stop a few balls from being belted to the boundary.
Last edited by Stan Sted; 12th July 2002 at 17:30.