Cricket Stories

[mukund_nadkarni]

Cricket's greatest confusion!

This story involving two batsmen Tom Raikes and RC Robertson-Glasgow at The Oval in late June 1922 appeared some time back at the Cricinfo magazine website. Full story here.

The pair had added four when Robertson-Glasgow drove the ball to long-on, fielding in front of the Pavilion, and set off for an easy single. Despite having taken the first one rather slowly, the pair decided to come back for a second. Raikes, running back to the danger end, was less convinced but after hesitating, set off. "Then," Robertson-Glasgow later recalled, "strange things happened".

The two of them crossed mid-pitch, at which point Robertson-Glasgow (according to the Times) or Raikes (according to Robertson-Glasgow) had a change of mind and direction and the pair ran side by side towards the Pavilion End.

After a few yards Raikes realised that this was a recipe for trouble and turned round to try to get back to the safety of the Vauxhall End. At the same moment, Robertson-Glasgow did exactly the same, so both were again heading in the same direction. "I followed him," Robertson-Glasgow wrote, "but, thinking the crease was overcrowded, I set out for the other end."

To the amusement of what the Times described as a "now thoroughly interested house", the hapless pair turned almost simultaneously for a third time and resumed their side-by-side pursuit for safety. "The Old Carthusian beat the Old Wykehamist by a short head," noted the newspaper dryly.

The situation was allowed to reach a near-comic state by the dreadful fielding of the Surrey side, who were "driven temporarily insane by the goings-on". The initial return from long-on was poor and was then fumbled by mid-on. As he picked up the ball he was confronted with loud shouts from both bowler and wicketkeeper to throw the ball to their end. Confused, he dropped the ball for a second time before returning it to the bowler, who took the bails off, only to see both Robertson-Glasgow and Raikes standing in their ground, albeit exhausted. He duly threw the ball to wicketkeeper Herbert Strudwick, who whipped off the bails.

 

[.Mob]

LOL

If only we could see it.

 

[King Cricket]

Do you guys remember that Shane Watson- ghost incident? That happened most probably a month after the 04 CT (or maybe after the 05 ashes don't remember correctly) . The australian team was staying at a well-known hotel in don't remember where, and one night, Watsy ended up seeing not one but a whole army of skeletons wearing WW II suits practicing marchpast in his room. As soon as he saw this, he quicky rushed out of his room and started to shout and kick outside Brett Lee's room. Lee opened the door and heard the whole story from Watsy, and neither Lee nor Watsy could sleep alone that night. You must have read such an article in the papers, it created quite a hoolabay then. Don't know whether this is true or not, just posted here what I had read in the papers.

One more thing , Watsy isn't the only person to have seen those ghosts. A West Indian team of the late 70's had a similar experience while staying at that particular hotel- well, that's what the paper says.

 

[King Pietersen]

So not only have we gone from ludicrious stories about Sachin, true or not, we've now moved onto ghost stories. I didn't think this thread could get any worse, it has.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Joginder Sharma who won India the T20 world cup his father is 'paan' seller.

 

[King Cricket]

So not only have we gone from ludicrious stories about Sachin, true or not, we've now moved onto ghost stories. I didn't think this thread could get any worse, it has.

I never said that the story is true-

Don't know whether this is true or not, just posted here what I had read in the papers.

Why don't you just google it instead of attacking me?

 

[King Pietersen]

I wasn't attacking you. =/ Just saying that ghost stories bring the thread to a new low. I didn't say you're an idiot for believing it or anything like that. Just saying that story itself is a new low for the thread, as it's just simply not true. Ghosts don't exist.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Ghosts are real and they kick people in the gorin .

 

[King Cricket]

Here is the link.

Cricket: Shane Watson profile | Sport | The Observer

My story is mentioned towards the end.
Anyway, I'm not telling anybody to believe it. I don't believe this incident either. It's just a creepy, funny story- nothing else. And I think the thread's title is "Cricket Stories", not "Real incidents" , and my name is "The Joker"?
:rtfl:rtfl:rtfl

Hey KP, why so seious?

 

[Leggie]

Joginder Sharma who won India the T20 world cup his father is 'paan' seller.

Thats actually quite an achievement. If you go down an ordinary street in India then there are about 20 paan seller (At least in Gujarat anyway). Must've taken something special to get him into International Cricket

 

[max_dillon2007]

I dont know watsy incident is true of not but i do remember reading a very similar incident in news paper . That was some english county side.

P.S:
Well King pieterson, what happened to your Awesome:hpraise:hpraise English squad, bundled out for 51 against MIGHTY West Indies. Even great lord SIR K.P was unable to save them.

 

[King Cricket]

Another link

The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire: Australian feared castle ghost

But this tells a different story.
Hmmm....well maybe this incident never happened. Well, I'll google it again, let's see whether I can find more links.

 

[King Pietersen]

I dont know watsy incident is true of not but i do remember reading a very similar incident in news paper . That was some english county side.

P.S:
Well King pieterson, what happened to your Awesome:hpraise:hpraise English squad, bundled out for 51 against MIGHTY West Indies. Even great lord SIR K.P was unable to save them.

Max. What happened to the high level of intellect normally contained within your posts?

Oh wait......

You don't know if it's true or not? Let me tell you, it's definitely not.

 

[King Cricket]

Another link.

Watson's not likely to give up the ghost - Cricket - Sport - smh.com.au

Our English guys here must have read this. This whole thing appeared in The Sun, England's largest selling newspaper.

 

[King Pietersen]

Oh bugger. The Sun posted it in their paper, it must be true. Sorry people, ghosts exist after all. Apologies.