few days before Christmas, on a chilly evening, there was a bump sound at Crystal Caves.

"Blitzen, Comet you have to keep flying and Rudolph stop flickering your nose on and off" Santa said. "Now, let's get back in the air". They flew back up, higher than the clouds, the seagulls, Cahows and longtails flew around Santa's head. "This is Bermuda all right" said Santa. "Cupid, Prancer faster, keep that nose bright Rudolph!" bellowed Santa. "We'll never get to every house on the planet at this rate."

A few days later on Christmas Eve, when Santa was going down chimneys and delivering presents, there was a problem in St. George's. One of the cricket players had hit himself in the head with a bat and there were no reserves! The special Christmas Cup Match was going to have to be postponed!

"Oh, cricket, my favourite, what's this ? they've stopped playing?" questioned Santa. "All the Christmas presents are wrapped and ready to deliver, maybe I could help?" Santa thought to himself. He went to the coach and asked if he could play, the coach said "yes, as long as you can play well'. "Okay" said Santa.

He started batting after awhile, he was 8th batter. Santa's team was hopelessly losing, but after warming up, a few wides, a no-ball and almost an L.B.W., Santa started batting as well as ever, and when he was on forty-three runs he hit a six and then two fours.

He hit three more sixes and then something amazing happened ... it started snowing!!! It was the first time in history that it snowed in Bermuda! Through the snowflakes you could see the ball flying over the boundary every time Santa hit it. One time the bowler bowled a wide so Santa threw the bat to one side but it still seemed to be controlled by Santa's arms because it spun around and hit the ball which bounced over the boundary for a four. The crowd stared in astonishment.

Santa's team was still down by thirty-five runs with only an over left. Santa hit five more sixes to be only five runs down! It was the last over, last ball, they were five runs down and ? Santa hit a six!!! They won! They won! The crowd went wild!! They picked up Santa and started chanting, but they didn't know what to chant? They asked 'what is your name?' Santa knew he could not tell them his real name so he made up one "my name is Mike Rogers" said Santa. So the crowd chanted Santa's made up name all through the night.

"That's the best game of cricket that I've ever played," Santa said to his reindeer when he got back to the sleigh. So he went around the world and delivered all the presents in half the night because he was so energetic from the cricket.