http://www.boredwithsport.co.uk/2009/02/its-not-cricket-hurrah/ The online resource for the sport averse! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:35:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.boredwithsport.co.uk/2009/02/its-not-cricket-hurrah/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Lee Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:56:11 +0000 http://www.boredwithsport.co.uk/?p=190#comment-14 Yes I thought you'd like this story. It brings me to mind a previous abandoned Test match at Jamaica 10 years or so ago. Brian Lara had just replaced Jamaican hero Courtney Walsh as the West Indies captain and the natives were, as they say, restless. Anyway, their mood bucked up a little because England made their usual great start and were about 15-3 inside an hour. The difference this time was not typical English ineptitude but a seriously dangerous pitch, which appeared liable to either break your foot or bash your head depending upon which blade of grass the ball happened to alight upon. After the physio had departed the field for the umpteemth time, the England captain, Mike Atherton, asked Lara his opinion of the pitch. Lara agreed it was dangerous and the game should be abandoned. However, Atherton himself would have to request this from the match referee alone. When Atherton asked why Lara replied, "They already hate me here.They'll lynch me if I ask the match to be abandoned now!" Yes I thought you’d like this story. It brings me to mind a previous abandoned Test match at Jamaica 10 years or so ago. Brian Lara had just replaced Jamaican hero Courtney Walsh as the West Indies captain and the natives were, as they say, restless. Anyway, their mood bucked up a little because England made their usual great start and were about 15-3 inside an hour. The difference this time was not typical English ineptitude but a seriously dangerous pitch, which appeared liable to either break your foot or bash your head depending upon which blade of grass the ball happened to alight upon. After the physio had departed the field for the umpteemth time, the England captain, Mike Atherton, asked Lara his opinion of the pitch. Lara agreed it was dangerous and the game should be abandoned. However, Atherton himself would have to request this from the match referee alone. When Atherton asked why Lara replied, “They already hate me here.They’ll lynch me if I ask the match to be abandoned now!”

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