Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss

Lemon Bella sent us this:



Lemon Bella says: "Here is a photo of my cat, Strauss, being conspicuously indifferent to a copy of The Wisden Cricketer.

"That edition has Andrew Strauss on the cover too. So StraussCat is not only being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, but also conspicuously indifferent to his namesake's captaincy ambitions."

We're particularly impressed with how Strauss has found what looks like a small piece of paper and trained his gaze on that in order to underline his indifference to cricket.

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A mountain viscacha being conspicuously indifferent to Rob Key

We got this from Simon C very early on and have been saving it.



Simon says: "You will be delighted to know that your very own Rob Key picture actually contains an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket.

"Using image enhancement software, we can clearly see a mountain viscacha in the crowd, engaging in the mountain viscacha's normal diurnal behaviour of sleeping upright.

"It is completely unaware of Rob Key's century, although to be fair, Rob Key is completely unaware of the viscacha.

"I have given Rob a flaming sword for verisimilitude."

Rob Key, flaming swords, indifferent animals - unusual ones at that. It's a tour de force. We'll even overlook the use of the word 'verisimilitude'.

Thanks Simon C.

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Murphy being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

Rosie from Melbourne sent us this:



Rosie says: "Here is my dog, Murphy, sleeping through a DVD of the Melbourne Ashes Test. Ian Bell has just got out LBW to Stuart Clark and she couldn't care less."

We think that maybe Rosie is a closet England sympathiser and is not being indifferent but 'worn down'.

England's batting ineptitude did that to a lot of great animals during 2006.

Our inbox is almost totally devoid of animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket now

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Granville and Carlo being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

Miriam sent us some pictures and some accompanying words.



"Granville is so wilfully indifferent to reading about Sri Lanka’s magnificent rearguard innings at the 2006 Lords test that he has turned his head in disgust."



"Carlo is so indifferent that he hasn’t even opened the book but is using it as a headrest despite there being a perfectly good pillow available right behind him."

Of the two, we're most impressed by Granville's performance. Carlo is clearly indifferent to cricket, but it's an idle, effortless indifference. Granville's putting his back into it. Look at his expression. The power of his indifference is humbling.

Miriam sent us quite a number of variants on these two pictures. We spent an inordinate amount of time comparing two of the Granville photos trying to determine which featured the better display of indifference, despite the fact that they were so similar they could actually have been the same photo but with different file names.

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Number 42 being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

It's another animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket. This picture, sent in by regular contributor The Scientician, features what we're reliably informed is 'some kind of sheep with gingham skin'.



She goes by the name of 'Number 42' and as you can see, she's being conspicuously indifferent to cricket - to King Cricket, no less.

This is a remarkably familiar sight for us, only instead of Number 42, it's usually Monty. If you ever find any typos on King Cricket, they're definitely his doing. He also found a 'power' key on our keyboard that we didn't know we had.

The Scientician also sent us this:



It's Animal from The Muppets. He likes drumming. He is indifferent to cricket.

The Scientician said: "It makes me wonder why I waste my life in science, when I clearly have mad skills in Photoshop."

Even more pictures please

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Pigeons being conspicuously indifferent about cricket

Hurray. Someone contributed to our 'Animals Being Conspicuously Indifferent About Cricket' segment.

Oliver sent us this:


He says: "The pigeons in this picture are being conspicuously indifferent about cricket. They know that HD Ackerman has just made a hundred for Leicestershire at Trent Bridge, but all they care about is pecking around in the outfield, because they are totally indifferent about cricket."

Pigeons famously renounced cricket back in 1925 after a tragic incident when one of their number was killed by a Herbert Sutcliffe on-drive. It was tragic because there was no long-on, so Sutcliffe was denied a certain four.

This is a first-rate reader contribution. Well done, Oliver. The rest of you: More of this kind of thing.

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Animals being conspicuously indifferent about cricket

We've taken a picture of our cat, Monty, being indifferent about cricket. He's actually SITTING on the cricket page of the paper. How does he expect to find out about Alastair Cook's hundred by doing that?




Look at him. Look at how conspicuously indifferent he is about cricket.

We'd say something like, 'the balls of that cat', if it weren't in very poor taste due to our being essentially responsible for their removal.

We're hoping that this is the first of a segment of King Cricket we're going to call: 'Animals Being Conspicuously Indifferent About Cricket'.

In our head we'll be inundated by photographs from readers. In reality, Monty's going to be a busy cat. Busy being indifferent, which is very much his default emotion.

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Pigeons being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
Number 42 being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
Granville and Carlo being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
Murphy being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
A mountain viscacha being conspicuously indifferent to Rob Key
Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss
Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss's omission
Carlo and Granville being conspicuously indifferent on the field of play
Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss's reselection
Nimbus being conspicuously indifferent to King Cricket in The Wisden Cricketer
Nella the African hunting dog being conspicuously indifferent to cricket