7 FEBRUARY 1970, Page 12

Test solution

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

Would not it be by far astuter To fix the matches by computer?

You needn't have a bat or ball.

You needn't play the game at all, But hire a sound-tracked, clapping host To cheer along a frustrate ghost, While no one by electric light, Could tell if he was black or white.

The computer, as it went along, Could cook the score and get it wrong, And for a fee some silly bitch Be snapped while digging up the pitch.