Or maybe Steve Harmison's early breakthrough with a rib-tickler against Simon Katich distracted them. |
The belly laughs provoked by that rib-tickler have put the entire main island of Japan on tsunami alert. |
All records beaten as a fun-maker, rib-tickler, and laugh-provoker. |
But it does mean that what is advertised and intended as an uproarious rib-tickler is really a far better light tragedy. |
The bounce allows the batsman to leave them without concern and the only run comes off the last ball with a rib-tickler fended off on the leap around the corner for one. |
Supremos have told the superstar, last seen in hit rib-tickler The Waterboy, that he will be welcome to visit the zoo at any time to study the animals. |