Obscure non-cricket reasons resulting in players not able to play the match

[L Trumper]

Who cut their hand badly on the trip to or from SA in the 90s and missed a fair bit of cricket? Was it Lara?

Jimmy Adams

 

[BoyBrumby]

Pietersen and Textgate deserves a mention too, I suppose.

 

[Spikey]

Bradman missed a test because he wanted to make some money through a newspaper article........#selfishcricketers

 

[Riggins]

no wonder his career never kicked on.

 

[fredfertang]

New ZealandersVic Pollard, Bruce Murray and Bryan Yuile all, I believe, missed Test matches because their religious beliefs/activities meant they couldn't/wouldn't play on Sundays

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Akhtar's fake genital warts

 

[Biryani Pillow]

Phil Edmonds drove into the car park at Lords the day before a Test in 1983 and pulled a muscle in his back getting out of the car.

Consequently Nick Cook was called up to make his debut..

 

[TT Boy]

Jacques Rudolph missed a test match because he wasn’t black.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I'm sure that a lot of our players have faked injuries to avoid playing agianst strong teams like South Africa or Australia.

 

[honestbharani]

Nah, **** these blokes. Seriously. If one of them was Warne there's be blokes on here saying he should be carpeted. It's not that hard to perform a task you're set by the coach. You might not like it, but stiff ****.

And one of them is the vice captain ffs. Idiots.

Just shows, nothing good ever comes out of India.

TBF, zero, the BEST nothing ever, did come out of India..

 

[doesitmatter]

Lala Amarnath was sent for reasons only Maharajah Vizzy knows..Did somebody break their ribs by sneezing and miss a match?..McGrath stepping on the ball during practice and dropping the Ashes..

 

[ganeshran]

Just shows, nothing good ever comes out of India.

Jono did come out of India, kinda.

 

[complan]

Sunil Gavaskar deciding to drop himself from any Test Match in Calcutta, because the crowd there booed him and pelted him with fruit.

 

[Furball]

Another football one - Marco Negri missed 4 months of the 97/98 season after getting hit in the eye with a squash ball. Although that was rumoured to be bollocks and what really happened is that he'd been caught ****ing Sergio Porrinni's wife and gotten a good punching for it.

 

[ganeshran]

Vengsarkar missed the 1987 semi final due to a suspicious last minute injury. Akram was injured at the last minute in the 1996 WC quarters too.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Trescothick after being bowled by Lee in a warm-up to the 06/07 Ashes.Was then and there he decided to abort out the whole tour

Being dismissed by Lee would make anyone depressed.

 

[Burgey]

Jono did come out of India, kinda.

Proves the point

 

[outbreak]

Don't know many cricket ones but Sammy Sosa pulled a muscle sneezing in baseball and I'm pretty sure there's been a couple of guys who've cut their hands on bras but I can't remember their names. Ken Giffey got a nad stuck in his box and missed time i think. In basketball I know Tony Allen tore his ACL dunking AFTER the final buzzer in celebration. Drew Gooden missed games with an infected hair follicle and Monta Ellis nearly had his contract voided from falling off a scooter and lieing about the injury as his contract limits him from riding scooters.

If it's not just injuries we're talking about Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton got long suspensions for bringing guns into the locker room and pulling them on each other over a gambling debt apparently.

U.S sports have the most crazy stuff going on.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Javaris Crittenton

Surely you're making this name up. Like DaMarcus Beasley and Rory Hamilton-Brown.

 

[outbreak]

Surely you're making this name up. Like DaMarcus Beasley and Rory Hamilton-Brown.

Last I heard Javaris was on the run on a drive by shooting charge too