I don’t know what Surrey was playing at.
But someone has fucked up.
And their potential saviour Shoaib Ahktar could not get past the border security.
I will not make any jokes about Muslims getting caught without Visas.
I don’t know how mistakes like this are made, but this was a good one.
Shoaib was to be the metaphoric white knight, and now all they have is Matthew Nicholson.
Again.
When i arrived in London, with slightly less fanfare than Shoaib, i was asked the rules of my visa.
Once of which was that you cannot play professional sport, unless you are on a professional sport visa.
You’d think a county cricket team that brings people over to play for them all the time might know the rules.
Perhaps not.
Its surrey they make a living from fucking up in the most spectacular ways possible