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

CricAddict · 11-03-2013, 02:46 AM

As flibberty suggested, starting a thread to list incidents of players sitting out of test matches due to obscure non-cricket reasons..

CricAddict · 11-03-2013, 02:48 AM

And we have got one of the best to start with. Watson and Pattinson sitting out for not doing homework.

Crazy Sam · 11-03-2013, 03:06 AM

Didn't Hodge miss a T20I with a strained back from picking up his child? Pomersbach got plucked from the crowd to play in his place iirc.

Spikey · 11-03-2013, 03:09 AM

no.

he was attempting to put on his pants

BoyBrumby · 11-03-2013, 03:10 AM

Chris Lewis once sat out a test for shaving his head.

Well, indirectly, he promptly got heatstroke as was forced to sit out the first test of our 1993 tour of the Windies.

Del Pringle (allegedly, etc) missed a test versus Pakistan in 1982 after a chair collapsed and effed his (admittedly already fragile) back.

My favourite tho is perhaps Ted Dexter, who somehow contrived to run himself over with his own Jag, breaking his leg in the process. The alleged involvement of the consumption of intoxicants canot be confirmed or denied.

Samuel_Vimes · 11-03-2013, 03:17 AM

You couldn't make it up.

*/heraldsunmode*

Burgey · 11-03-2013, 03:34 AM

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.

GingerFurball · 11-03-2013, 03:49 AM

Not cricket, but Santiago Canizares missed out on a major tournament (might have been athe 2002 World Cup) after severing a tendon in his foot by dropping a bottle of aftershave on it.

Dave Beasant did something similar, except he dropped a bottle of salad cream.

Spikey · 11-03-2013, 03:53 AM

former vancouver canucks defenceman sami salo missed a couple of games because he got bitten by the only poisonous snake in Finland while playing some golf.

Smudge · 11-03-2013, 03:56 AM

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.

Howe_zat · 11-03-2013, 04:04 AM

Salman Butt missed loads of cricket just for trying to open an ice cream parlour, iirc

kingkallis · 11-03-2013, 04:10 AM

Junaid came in the way of a door

bloody drunkard!

Dan · 11-03-2013, 04:35 AM

Arthur Dolphin fell off a chair and broke his wrist.

Ian Greig locked himself out of his house and broke his ankle trying to get in a window.

Matthew Hayden got attacked by a dog going out for a jog.

Jimmy Adams and Mark Boucher both sliced their hands cutting food. The latter made Andrew Hall keep wicket.

Don Topley got attacked by a spring-loaded letter slot, right on his fingers.

Bruce French got hit on the head at training from a spectator's throw, got hit by a car when he got to the hospital to get it checked out, and then bumped his head again on a light fitting after treatment.

BoyBrumby · 11-03-2013, 04:36 AM

Shane Warne missed a year of test cricket because he was so concerned about his physical appearance.

#mediapressureonmen

CricAddict · 11-03-2013, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rvd619323

Bruce French got hit on the head at training from a spectator's throw, got hit by a car when he got to the hospital to get it checked out, and then bumped his head again on a light fitting after treatment.

Sorry for his plight but couldnt stop laughing reading this. Such misfortune. Did this happen for true?

11-03-2013, 02:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
CricAddict U19 Vice-Captain Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Chennai Posts: 584	Obscure non-cricket reasons resulting in players not able to play the match As flibberty suggested, starting a thread to list incidents of players sitting out of test matches due to obscure non-cricket reasons..

11-03-2013, 03:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
Crazy Sam State Vice-Captain Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 1,048	Didn't Hodge miss a T20I with a strained back from picking up his child? Pomersbach got plucked from the crowd to play in his place iirc. __________________ Andrew Symonds 143*

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Spikey Cricket Web: All-Time Legend Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: All Glory To The Nev Posts: 24,117	no. he was attempting to put on his pants __________________ Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ? With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left

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BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,658	Chris Lewis once sat out a test for shaving his head. Well, indirectly, he promptly got heatstroke as was forced to sit out the first test of our 1993 tour of the Windies. Del Pringle (allegedly, etc) missed a test versus Pakistan in 1982 after a chair collapsed and effed his (admittedly already fragile) back. My favourite tho is perhaps Ted Dexter, who somehow contrived to run himself over with his own Jag, breaking his leg in the process. The alleged involvement of the consumption of intoxicants canot be confirmed or denied. __________________ *- As featured in The Independent.* "This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers." - Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads

11-03-2013, 03:34 AM	#7 (permalink)
Burgey Cricket Web Staff Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: The Castle Posts: 35,160	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. __________________ WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie "People make me happy.. not places.. people"* "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson "Oh my God, there's a castle! A castle!"

11-03-2013, 02:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
CricAddict U19 Vice-Captain Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Chennai Posts: 584	And we have got one of the best to start with. Watson and Pattinson sitting out for not doing homework.

11-03-2013, 03:53 AM	#9 (permalink)
Spikey Cricket Web: All-Time Legend Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: All Glory To The Nev Posts: 24,117	former vancouver canucks defenceman sami salo missed a couple of games because he got bitten by the only poisonous snake in Finland while playing some golf.

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Smudge Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Wellywood Posts: 16,552	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. __________________ What do you mean?

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Howe_zat International Coach Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Top floor, bottom buzzer Posts: 13,912	Salman Butt missed loads of cricket just for trying to open an ice cream parlour, iirc __________________ Maybe we wouldn't be so quick to fill buckets with filth if we knew they had a soul. Or maybe that's what they're into. Ain't no way to get inside a bucket's mind.

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11-03-2013, 04:35 AM	#13 (permalink)
Dan Global Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 3,107	Arthur Dolphin fell off a chair and broke his wrist. Ian Greig locked himself out of his house and broke his ankle trying to get in a window. Matthew Hayden got attacked by a dog going out for a jog. Jimmy Adams and Mark Boucher both sliced their hands cutting food. The latter made Andrew Hall keep wicket. Don Topley got attacked by a spring-loaded letter slot, right on his fingers. Bruce French got hit on the head at training from a spectator's throw, got hit by a car when he got to the hospital to get it checked out, and then bumped his head again on a light fitting after treatment.

11-03-2013, 04:36 AM	#14 (permalink)
BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,658	Shane Warne missed a year of test cricket because he was so concerned about his physical appearance. #mediapressureonmen

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