IDEA
FOR SCENE: Show Allan Border 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 Border has been on 97 for the last
23½ minutes and ‘the pressure must be getting to him’. Finally Border makes it
to the striker’s end and the crowds applaud, cheer and start chanting, ‘A-B,
A-B’. Just as the ball is bowled, Smithy, Ginger and Felix enter. The rest of the
players freeze and Border is screaming at his batting partner to run. Border can’t
quite understand what’s wrong and looks wildly all around him. In utter desperation
Border 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 Border and explain that
these runs don’t count because time has now stopped in this
dimension. Border just yells ‘Get out of the way! Only one more for my century’.
Border and Smithy keep running singles. After eight singles, Felix tries again to explain
about the whole time travel situation, running up and down alongside Border. Border
ignores him. Ginger has lost patience, goes off stage, comes back with the cricket ball
(that froze in time like the players) and runs Border out, screaming, ‘HOWZAT’.
Exhausted, Border agrees to help without wanting an explanation, as long as they promise
to carry him. 
