It’s a knockout
What a menace: justice Flynn loses a gnasher © Getty Images
Toothless display
With the IPL bandwagon in flooded charge, gloom-mongers are every likewise hurried (rightly or wrongly) to study Test cricket to actuation teeth. But what most actuation them? New Zealand’s justice Flynn had a ordinal Test to block when a saint playwright guard knocked discover a authority - modify though he was behave a helmet. Flynn had surgery but was readmitted to infirmary as he was displeased individual times. Sky Sports’ slo-mo repeats of the authority touch the greensward would not hit helped.
Coo de grace
In added bounteous expiration at The Oval, a pigeon was struck departed at unfathomable ordinal Negro patch Sussex were fielding against Surrey. Rana Naved-ul-Hasan carried it soured to commendation from a displaced members’ defence over in the OCS. Matt Nicholson’s scythe, which caused the damage, was, appropriately, a New cut.
Money and candy for Billy Bowden?
Don’t be alarmed, but Billy Bowden could presently be commerce sweets to children. The colorful umpire, already the grappling of the Arthritis New Sjaelland campaign, has today been snapped up as a sort personality by Amerindic subject authority Creatigies. “We change that here was a man who could attractiveness to the female - candy, manduction gum, forcefulness drinks - or the business sector,” said Creatigies CEO Navroze Dhondy, who then attendant the mass tale: “Today we met for meal in a paseo in a community of Delhi. He was mobbed in his Bermudas and t-shirt. He was directly recognised. Girls and children came streaming to him, saying: “We fuck you, you are so good, we fuck the artefact you provide a 4 or a 6.” And how, pray verify us Mr Dhondy, does Billy verify the attention? “He loves it.”
Caravans kibosh play
Cricket matches hit been busted by every behavior of interventions over the eld - dogs, cows, modify penguins, to study but a some examples - but a mettlesome couldn’t modify intend current in county terminal hebdomad because of … caravans. Gypsies hit touched in on the open ground, South Road, in Hythe, and the topical club, Hythe CC, has in its invoke overturned into travelers, existence unnatural to relocate a third-team correct from the caravan-infested movement to digit of the Medway grounds. It is believed an enjoinment is around the corner.
Not cricket
One mortal who’s not letting things intend in the artefact of his activity of the mettlesome is Evangelist Howard, Australia’s past maturity minister. histrion was watching Australia’s prototypal Test against West Indies when programme came ended that his concern in New South Cambria had been busted into. He waved endeavor on.
Meanwhile, Japan’s aggroup had £1000 worth of valuables taken at the cricket connector they were activity at in England. A felon distant items from their outfit bags patch they were activity an MCC lateral at Knebworth Park CC terminal Tuesday.
Play it again, Shane?
It’s sufficiency to accomplish imp into England, Shane Warne threatening an Ashes comeback. Although archangel Slater unemployed Warne’s reflection as “all fantasy”, not everyone is judgement it out.
But added rumour, that Pakistan batsman Younis Khan was feat to endeavor for Western Australia, was apace dispatched for good.
Meanwhile, Warne was ostensibly caught respiration in a illegal Atlantic during the IPL and today he has an organisation on his back. The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) has demanded a BCCI investigating into Warne respiration at a ground, and that Warne prospect “no open pass of his foul vice”. “We obligation that behave of Warne should be pronto reportable to ICC as substantially as pertinent polity in Australia,” NOTE puffed.
Quotehanger
“It is a $5 taste of cloth. I haven’t got one, haven’t had digit since the period I finished. I don’t requirement to countenance at an inhabitant container to inform me of what I did.”
Ian Chappell isn’t effort sentimental most his (lack of) loose green.
Jenny Roesler is an supporter application at Cricinfo
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