FIFTY-FIFTY
... THE first half-century, young man, the sage remarked, Is difficult and slow, with danger, fraught. The batsman, noting how the field is parked. Digs himself in lest prematurely caught. His eye, not yet accustomed to the light, Is apt to make mistakes and see things wrong He treats the pitch in manner most polite, Bats cautiously if he 's to stay there long. So, as with singles slowly mounts ...