Father and son

Mike Selvey has announced his retirement from all cricket, including games played on excursions. The decision, as he writes in his blog in the Guardian, was prompted by a failed attempt to sledge his son in a Dads v Lads game.

One day he might need counselling, for it must be an unnerving experience for a young boy to have his parentage questioned by his own dad. He laughed again. I resolved to bounce the crap out of him. Even at my best I rarely bowled bouncers, and then only to people who didn't hook and just ducked. It was an inexpensive game I played to keep Mike Brearley happy when he thought I wasn't being sufficiently aggressive enough and it never cost runs.