Cricket: Difference between revisions

The [[First Doctor]] claimed not to know the sport at all when he landed [[the TARDIS]] in the middle of [[Lord's]] [[cricket ground|Cricket Ground]] during an [[Australia (cricket side)|Australia]]/[[England (cricket side)|England]] match, ([[TV]]: "[[Volcano (episode)|Volcano]]") but in later incarnations, he seemed to know the game well.  Indeed, by his [[second Doctor|second life]] he had already taken to carrying around a [[cricket ball]] on his person, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)|Invasion of the Cat-People]]'') something that would continue in later lives. Late in his life, after he had met [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]], the [[Third Doctor]] at least once lamented the fact that he had preferred motor sports over cricket. He thought that if he had [[regenerated]] into a younger body he would have quite certainly taken up the sport. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]'')  The [[Fourth Doctor]] sometimes claimed knowledge of the finer points of [[bowling (cricket)|bowling]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'')  His [[sixth Doctor|sixth]] and [[seventh incarnation]]s were not so keen on the sport, but they still exhibited a knowledgeable appreciation of it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]], even when [[chameleon arch]]ed into the human [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]], seemed to possess "muscle memory" of how to [[bowling (cricket)|bowl]] exceptionally well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'')