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

[Furball]

Actually the Barry Ferguson-Allan McGregor boozegate shenanigans from 2009 is a similar example to the current Australia example.

 

[NZTailender]

Shane Bond and the whole ICL debacle. Lou Vincent after saying he'd prefer not to open. Stephen Fleming for a jaw tumour. Doug Bracewell stepping on glass.

 

[Smudge]

Jono did come out of India, kinda.

I thought he came out once he posted the topless Kohli pics?

 

[Top_Cat]

Craig McDermott has this locked as twice he's been ruled out of big tours; England in '93 when he had a twisted bowel (ate English food, eh) and WI in '95 when he damaged his foot jumping down from a rock wall at the beach or something similar.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Dion Nash* was going to play a test.....

And then he got high.


*replace with Fleming/Hart if you like

 

[Sanz]

Anyone mentioned Kapil Missing 1984 Eden Test Match Vs. England. Ironically the great man only one test in his entire career. Azhar replaced him in that match and scored a century.

 

[Satyanash89]

Denis Bergkamp missed loads of matches for Arsenal because of his fear of flying. Don't think anything similar has happened in a cricket match.

runako morton died

I seriously lold

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Doug Bracewell missing two tests due to over-zealous tidying of his own house.

Young-uns these days. If they're not tidying one thing up, it's another.

 

[Hurricane]

Trevor Franklin was hit by a motorised luggage trolley at Heathrow during the 1986 tour of England, breaking both legs and ruling him out of much if not all of the tour.

And legend has it he was a moderate scoring batsman before the injury and a slow poke afterwards.

I saw him have a net once against some club cricketers who fancied themselves before a match started. It was carnage. He drove anything his side of halfway with great authority they couldn't bowl to him. And then he went out into the middle and went into his shell scoring 15 runs off 60 deliveries in a list A game. His team mates wouldn't sit next to him on the team bench afterwards as he had dug them a massive hole. A guy called Steve Brown went out to bat in the number 7 spot and blasted a century to make up for lost time and Auckland finished on 220 odd.

 

[Goughy]

Harold Larwood missed the rest of his career because he refused to say sorry.

 

[the big bambino]

Harold Larwood missed the rest of his career because he refused to say sorry.

 

[Immenso]

Jesse Ryder missed the test series v England in 08 because he was really busting to go the toilet.

 

[Chubb]

Graeme Welch pulled a muscle singing along to a song in his car with his infant son.

 

[Arjun]

Praveen Kumar missing any cricket lately should count.

 

[andyc]

Didn't Brad Hogg miss (or almost miss) a game because of a finger infection caused when cutting his nails?

 

[VCC44]

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.

Marco Negri, unstoppable for half a season then that happened.

 

[CricAddict]

Did they see our thread?

ESPNcricinfo XI: Players who missed Tests or series for strange reasons | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Daemon]

Those cheeky ****s.

 

[marc71178]

Yes, because clearly this sort of thing wasn't a hot and obvious topic for them to use in that weekly column.

 

[Daemon]

They've done this sort of thing before tbf.