If you have ever thought, jeez that Jrod is a bastard, I’d love to see him black & blue, bleeding from the eyeball or crying in pain, here is your chance.
I have stupidly agreed to face Iain O’Brien for charity. The charity I have chosen is the Zimbabwe Aids trust. Which could be funny if I start pissing blood afterwards or I get hit in the balls.
The date is yet to be announced yet as we are waiting for the practice pitches at Lord’s to be ready for such an important event. I do know that equipment wise I will be wearing a helmet, box, thighpad, gloves and pads. Nothing more.
This will be carnage. I am not a terrible batsman, but neither am I any good.
The whole event will be filmed by the Test Match Sofa team, who will also commentate and laugh.
So if you donate you will actually get the extra pleasure of seeing me get hurt on your dime, how could you resist?
It’d be nice if you donated, it is a great charity and I think I will have earned your money.
You’re wearing only one box?
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You forgot to mention that he’s one of only two bowlers in the County Championship with points on his record (even if he did get them for having a queeny fit whilst batting)
Can you get him to regrow that pornstar moustache just for the event?
Jrod,
Best of luck. My advice is to try to get on the front foot if he pitches up, get a big stride in. If the Kiwi bastard (or is he a pommy bastard now) drops it in short, sway onto the back foot and hit him over square-legs head. Don’t try to over complicate things.
Cheers
Val
How many balls are you facing him for ?
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Damith, I think 3 overs.
TOB, The hawk for me, as you know.
Beggy, will check, but not sure Lord’s will open up to the public for this.
Paddy, having seen you bat, i doubt you’d face anyone quicker than a spinner with a suit of armour on.
Good on you Jrod, putting your life on the line for charity, and such a worthwhile charity too.
Mentally picture yourself as Virender Sehwag. Wear a sehwag mask if possible. Iain doesnt like bowling to him.
At what point will you be ‘calling for the Mongoose’?
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Is this a private event or can donatees attend?
donate to the banned paki players charity instead.
these pakis will go to any lengths to upstage you jrod:
http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/451392.html
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UncleJ, you ll have to share stage with Mr. Bollywood to raise funds for the Akmal bros. Poor rascals!
cb
jrod have you read the awesome awesome article on Sanga’s eleven in cricinfo? Before I looked at the byline, I thought you had written it.
btw, for my idol – Midget stat whore loser must be murdered, cut into little pieces and thrown to the fish.
The more I think about it, the more I think there has to be a better way to do this – well, better from our perspective, anyway.
Instead of flat rate sponsorship, how about £1 per bruise?
And O’Brien is far too nice a guy, he’ll probably just bowl it full outside off. Let’s get some serious loopers in here – Andre Nel, Steve Kirby, Peter Trego and others of that ilk. Make it more of a challenge.
theskiver, how bout whatho and hauritz, jrod’s favourite cricketers.
oh, and lee is out of a job now, and he does have the nicest beamer in the business – you couldnt get decapitated by a more smarmy guy jrod.
Can I bowl? I’ll pay for the ball…
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@theskiver – tch-tch.. you seem to have an unhealthy roman streak somewhere in you – baying for blood at the coliseum are we?
btw, for my idol – chokedulkar should be mangled and crushed into little bits.
Me, Alex? I’m as pure as the proverbial driven sleet, I am
Happy surviving :P
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How much to bowl an over at you too? Happy to be the warm up act.
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A thigh pad? A helmet? Sheesh, first Michael Clarke and now you JRod. Why are all Australian men turning into pussies?
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@Paddy – dont’ joke, it’s absolutely true Australian men under the age of forty are a bunch of crybabies and girls underpants.
When I was a nipper, we used to use rolled up barbed wire for a ball, an old live artillery shell for a bat and a rabid wombat for the stumps. Anyone who flinched would be flogged and have to eat the discarded 80 over balls for the next week. That is if the rabid wombat didn’t first bite off their testicles as they shuffled back. There was a very good chance the wombat would connect as a rolled up leaf from a poison Gympie Gympie tree was used as a box and everyone knows that rabid wombats love poison Gympie Gympie trees. If a batsman was out, the fielders would spit on each other, and then punch each other in the left eye like real men. None of this namby pamby cuddling and prancing about.
Meh.
Who cares about O’ Brien anymore.
Good luck anyway, hope you meet your charity target.
Yeah, I don’t know what’s NZ’s infatuation with Frankie. Can’t bowl, can’t bat and probably can’t field. Pretty shit all round.
Oh I’d face them without protection, Jrod, regardless of my self-admitted failings as a batsman. I have too much dignity to wear a helmet or a thigh pad. In fact, I have done: I faced a couple of overs from Hoggard once with only pads, gloves and a box. Sure I got hit a couple of times on the thigh that left bruises, but isn’t that part of the fun? And as for a helmet? Come on, it’s not as if O’Brien is going to be aiming at your head.
You’re being a wuss. Much more of this and you’ll be appearing in a y-fronts commercial.
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Tell him to get back to Wgtn ASAP. We need him.
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