Building an Innings

I once unsuccessfully tried to explain cricket to a Scottish Music Teaching Colleague who came to watch me play. I didn’t touch the ball while fielding, and she didn’t understand what my role was. I told her not to worry, I was batting third and she would see me play in the next innings (meaning our turn to bat). After a huge opening partnership ended, I walked in, double-stepped, missed the ball, got stumped, and walked back to her to tell her I had no “further” role in the game. She, understandably, still didn’t understand why I mattered. To build an engine, you need to get control of the ins and outs. We have fixed expenses that come off every month/year. We have bumpy, but predictable expenses which vary between a high and low. We have annoying, but predictable maintenance costs that are erratic. Then we have the unpredictable storms we need to build a buffer for, or they knock us back to zero. If you keep going out, it is impossible to build a significant innings.

 

Bavuma became the first black cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa