It seems that Cricket has, over the years, been the subject of numerous experiments. Watch the video from those good eggs at Head Squeeze to discover at which point a Batsman decides which shot to play – you may well be astonished.
Incidentally, congratulations to England on a thunderous Ashes victory… Boo to the same for urinating on the pitch and well done on coming clean and apologising.
For reference: Interactive Musician Death Chart
There has been much made over recent years of a so called “27 Club”. The legend goes that there are a number of tortured-soul musicians that, for one reason or another, are taken from us at 27 and that this is in some way significant. Let’s look at this in further detail:
First of all, let’s take a look at the 27 Club members list:
Clearly there are some very important people in the list – I will refrain from any judgement at this point – but are they the only musicians to have died at 27? No, the list continues (although at this point the media tends to lose interest):
Again, there are some quite important musicians in there but nothing of the magnitude of the previous list. The former list is populated by notorious, iconic and, in some cases, genre-defining musicians. Surely then there is something to this 27 club idea? Prima facie it is easy to come to that conclusion but there are several factors missing from the picture:
In short, could it be that fame is the defining factor here?
Take a look at the graph I linked to above and then consider those genre-defining, icon stars that died much later in life (James Brown, Frank Sinatra, Les Paul), those that are still with us at the time of writing (David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne, BB King, Little Richard) and those that died younger (Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, Aaliyah).
As humans we seek solace in patterns, groups, classes and, to some extent, conspiratorial fantasy but sometimes this seeks only to undermine the real position. The people listed lived and died, laughed and loved and, love them or hate them, deserve to be remembered for their own merits, not just as a supposed statistical anomaly.
Mr Kennedy's Commonplace Book 