87 is an unlucky number in Australia as Sam Loxton once ate 87 dim sims on the rest day of an Ashes test in Melbourne.
The 87th got stuck in his throat and Neil Harvey had to jump up and down on his stomach until they all came up.
From then on the number 87 was synomomous with bad luck in cricket.
Years later Shane Warne would eat 114 dim sims in a day, it wasn’t an Ashes test though, Warne took 4 wickets that day.
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