- Blog Editor
- 27 Sep 07, 01:58 PM
Welcome to Ask Bearders, where Test Match Special statistician Bill "The Bearded Wonder" Frindall answers your questions on all things cricket.
Below are Bill's responses to some of your questions posed at the end of his last column and if you have a question for Bill, leave it at the end of this blog entry, including your name and nationality, and he might answer it in his next piece.
Bill isn’t able to answer all of your questions, however. BBC Sport staff will choose a selection of them and send them to Bearders for him to answer.
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- Alison Mitchell
- 27 Sep 07, 01:27 PM
“The attitude meter isn’t quite right” said Aggers, tapping a dial in the cockpit of a tiny Cherokee aeroplane.
“The what?” I quizzed, peering over his shoulder from the seat behind. “It’s ok” he quipped. “It’s not an important instrument.”
With that, our flight supervisor climbed on board, Aggers completed the final checks (getting a second opinion on the attitude meter) and I strapped myself into a springy beige seat that reminded me of the upholstery in my dad’s old Princess that he drove in the early 1980s.
This was my first experience of flying with Aggers. I knew he had taken Arlo White up in a small plane in Guyana during the Caribbean World Cup, and Ian Chappell survived a flight around Table Mountain less than a week ago in Cape Town, so I was utterly confident that we would both return safely to commentate on the World T20 semi-final the following night!
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