SJS
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I am going to start posting the strange and bizzare cricket incidents from my library. This is not for debate please. Only to have some fun and share with others any such instances we may have read about.
Here is the first :
A master at Wellington College Prep School, Eagle House, Richard Parsons was umpiring in a match where the schoolboys under his charge were bowled out for a mere ONE RUN by a rival school.
Embarrased rather than irritated, he said to his opposite number between innings, "I'm sorry not to have given your boys much practice. I assure you my chaps are capable of doing better than this."
They did. They bowled the entire opposition out for NOUGHT
Here is the first :
A master at Wellington College Prep School, Eagle House, Richard Parsons was umpiring in a match where the schoolboys under his charge were bowled out for a mere ONE RUN by a rival school.
Embarrased rather than irritated, he said to his opposite number between innings, "I'm sorry not to have given your boys much practice. I assure you my chaps are capable of doing better than this."
They did. They bowled the entire opposition out for NOUGHT