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Dec 2020
7:49am, 6 Dec 2020
29,133 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
hotel staff.
They should get tested..come home..bollocks to it.
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Dec 2020
7:55am, 6 Dec 2020
4,294 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Damn - have to rearrange my Sunday now. I suppose it removes the clash with the rugby.
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Dec 2020
7:58am, 6 Dec 2020
29,135 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Indeed....I might have to do 'odd jobs'
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Dec 2020
8:06am, 6 Dec 2020
4,296 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Remaining games also in doubt. Will be sickening for the odi only squad members if they end up having been cooped up in a bubble for however long and then there's no games
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Dec 2020
8:25am, 6 Dec 2020
2,159 posts
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Cheg
Yeah that should be series over before it started. Home you come lads.
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Dec 2020
9:34am, 6 Dec 2020
13,402 posts
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NDWDave
Yep. Sounds like it might also be two people within the England touring party. That sounds like it might be tour over. Shame as I was looking forward to some cricket today
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Dec 2020
9:44am, 6 Dec 2020
3,797 posts
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um 🎄
Since not much cricket here ... a footnote & interesting stat from yesterday's Times.
Merv’s hat-trick was odd – but not oddest
Today’s piece of unusual sporting trivia came via the ICC’s Twitter account, which mentioned that yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of Australia’s Merv Hughes taking a hat-trick that spanned three overs and had eight hours of play between the first wicket and the last.
Playing West Indies at Perth, Hughes had Curtly Ambrose caught behind off the last ball of his 36th over and dismissed Patrick Patterson to end the innings with the first ball of his 37th. Australia batted for 100 overs, declaring before Hughes could have a bat, and the man with the handlebar moustache then trapped Gordon Greenidge leg-before to start the second innings.
It had taken so long that Hughes was unaware of his feat until Steve Waugh told him.
Hughes was only the second bowler to take a Test hat-trick over two innings — curiously, the first was Courtney Walsh in the previous Test — but perhaps the oddest first-class hat-trick was by William Clarke for England v Kent in 1844. Not only was it split over two innings but it featured one batsman twice: John Fagge batted at No 11 in Kent’s first innings, then went in at No 3 in their second, with no more joy.
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Dec 2020
10:02am, 6 Dec 2020
2,136 posts
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Oscar the Grinch
Good work, um. The first hat-trick I can remember seeing live was the show pony, Dominic Cork vs West Indies.
Merv Hughes is a bit marmite for me. I really really don't like Marmite.
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Dec 2020
10:36am, 6 Dec 2020
29,143 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Merv was a bit pantomime, I am pretty sure the mouth made up for the lack of pace, but I think a lot of batsmen didn't fancy playing him. I think Cork was mine too, TV mind.
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Dec 2020
10:47am, 6 Dec 2020
13,403 posts
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NDWDave
I saw the James Anderson hat trick at the Oval back in 2003. I was surrounded by Pakistan fans which made it more entertaining
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