• TODAY (Thursday) sees the start of the annual procession of bacon and egg ties of the Marylebone Cricket Club from Camden and its environs, en route to the first test match at Lord’s this season.

However, having in mind the recent ball-tampering scandal involving various devices, one can imagine a certain scenario…

MCC can be such wowsers
For strict rules they are espousers.
Stewards stop and search
Aged members who lurch
For sandpaper in their trousers.

HOWARD RICHARDS
Fitzroy Road, NW1