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WE WERE "HAVING LAUGH": CPD
CCC’s game with Sage was called off at the eleventh hour last night after a heavy half hour deluge began at 16:30. Even at that late stage the groundsman at Heaton was forced to cancel the match due to waterlogging. The postponement comes after a month of decent weather, when CCC have been able to get on with what they do best: play cricket. "It’s a disappointment to lose out to the weather after all this time," commented secretary Cliff Spencer, "but to be honest we’ve been quite lucky really. It’s only this last week that the rain seems to have become more indiscriminate in nature."
"We were worried that CCC had played too many consecutive games," commented a spokesman for the Celestial Precipitation Bureau (CPB), "hence the indiscriminate targeting of heavy rainfall across a wide range of days recently."
In fact it appears that failings in the CPB's information network (similar to those exhibited in many earthly businesses)could explain how CCC appear to have got off so lightly recently. "Due to certain bureaucratic inefficiencies we only just noticed that CCC are playing their home games on Tuesdays this season, instead of Wednesdays," continued the spokesman. "That’s enabled us to re-target them with the precision that we are noted for. That’s why you saw a classicly timed and targeted deluge yesterday, with no rain only 200 yards to the south of the ground. We were having a laugh," he said, before adding with menace: "today's rain is scheduled for a little earlier, perhaps as soon as 14:30."
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