Amazingly the T20 tournament from hell is still going.
Every now and then it stops, other cricket gets played, and I assume it is over, but then it comes back again.
The Quarter finals were on last night. The semi finals and final are some time next month.
The 146th game was won by the Victorian Outlaws.
But the 145th game caught my attention.
I was grabbing a bite to eat and sat down at the right time to see the start of the game.
Opening the batting for Warwickshire was:
Neil Carter, 35, South African.
Darren Maddy, 36, English.
Opening the bowling for Hampshire was:
Dominic Cork, 38, English.
Abdul Razzaq, 84, Pakistan.
In English cricket there have probably been older combinations of players opening the batting and bowling.
But this was T20.
The young man’s game.
A cricket game devised for the ADD afflicted to enjoy while they throw rocks at old people.
Having watched a fair bit of county cricket it shouldn’t surprise me, players generally play on until someone swaps their bats for their walking sticks, but in a T20 match this still seemed odd.
I expected, youth, vitality and pimples.
Instead I got wrinkles, aches and Neil Carter.
Ofcourse the oddest thing is that Abdul Razzaq isn’t even the oldest thing to appear on a county ground this year.
Imagine the chances of a meteor falling to earth and someone being at a county game to see it at the same time.
Some say the meteor was 4.5 billion years old, although a Pakistani scientist has claimed that the meteor is no older than 18.
“Some say the meteor was 4.5 billion years old, although a Pakistani scientist has claimed that the meteor is no older than 18.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… um… HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
There were also fat people playing, they bowled surprisingly well. There was also Cork’s 10-year-old grandson playing, he took 3-29. There was also Luke Wright playing. County cricket is a circus. On the 18 year old meteorite, I am wondering if he retires at 26…
Thankfully it was two 19 year olds that did the business for Hampshire.
half tracker, Vince look good, although, he looks more like a proper bat than a t20 bat.
Andy, That it was. I like Barker, his action is rudimentary.
Still some top quality swearing from Barker at the end of the Warwks match
I don’t think that Hants would have got that far without Cork, though.
jrod, Vince has the technique to score stacks of runs in the Championship but at the moment he lacks the concentration power to make the big score. It will come soon though.
I think Razzaq might be a “Curious case of a Cricket player” but only problem is that his face is not getting younger.
“Some say the meteor was 4.5 billion years old, although a Pakistani scientist has claimed that the meteor is no older than 18.”
The scientist is ready to provide a birth certificate to prove that …
ROFL!!Excellent piece jrod.Take a bow!!
Do you watch a lot of South Park by chance ?
Ghurram, I haven’t watched Southpark since the first series.
I know you were waiting for a 4.5bn year old meteorite to land at a cricket ground so that you could make that joke, but I never thought it would happen.
Worth the wait.