IDEA
FOR SCENE: Show David Boon batting in a cricket match (you choose the teams playing). He
is on 97 not out, at the non-striker’s end, and is dying for his batting partner to
get a single. Commentator Richie Benaud explains that Boon has been on 97 for the last
23½ minutes and ‘the pressure must be getting to him’. Finally Boon makes it to
the striker’s end and the crowds applaud, cheer and start chanting, ‘Boon-ie,
Boon-ie’. Just as the ball is bowled, Smithy, Ginger and Felix enter. The rest of the
players freeze and Boon is screaming at his batting partner to run. Boon can’t quite
understand what’s wrong and looks wildly all around him. In utter desperation Boon
races down to his batting partner, wrenches away his bat, thrusts the bat at Smithy, races
back to the striker’s end and bellows, ‘RUN!!!!’ Smithy runs. After
they’ve run two singles, Felix tries to run along side Boon and explain that these
runs don’t count because time has now stopped in this dimension. Boon just yells
‘Get out of the way! Only one more for my century’. Boon and Smithy keep running
singles. After eight singles, Felix tries again to explain about the whole time travel
situation, running up and down alongside Boon. Boon ignores him. Ginger has lost patience,
goes off stage, comes back with the cricket ball (that froze in time like the players) and
runs Boon out, screaming, ‘HOWZAT’. Exhausted, Boon agrees to help without
wanting an explanation, as long as they promise to carry him. 
