3 NOVEMBER 1984, Page 34

Competition

No. 1345: Play up and on

Set by Jaspistos: 'There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win . . .' Sir Henry Newbolt's famous opening lines do not go on to tell us how the cricket game finished. Please supply the deficiency with 14 more lines of verse, not necessarily following the metre or rhyme scheme of the original. Entries to `Competition No. 1345' by 16 November.