Yes, it did happen and he wasn’t a nightwatchman because it was a Twenty20 match – the quarter-final against Essex.
It makes a kind of sense. Sajid Mahmood’s been batting surprisingly well for Lancashire this season, hitting four fifties in his 10 first-class innings and scoring at quite a lick. He made 34 off 17 balls.
It’s still as weird as our work colleague who says things like: “You know that shop that’s an H and then an ‘and’ and then an M?” though.
July 28, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Mahmood batting at five’s nothing, two wickets down Lanky had a 62 year old former australian test bastsman filling in.
Surely an award for the oldest player im the T20?
And yes it’s definately spelt australian, not Australian.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/8856434.stm
July 28, 2010 at 3:14 pm
It’s been coming for a while that. Was pleased to see him do well.
July 28, 2010 at 9:06 pm
His motivation for scoring crazy runs in the first innings is that he knows there’s a pretty good chance he’ll bowl like a twat.
July 28, 2010 at 9:21 pm
The King works!?
Don’t you have minions to do that for you?
July 29, 2010 at 12:50 am
Seconded Dan. I though being a celebrity cricket blogger was a full time, highly lucrative occupation.
July 29, 2010 at 8:42 am
Oxymoronic and wrong.
July 29, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Are your colleagues aware of your secret identity? You’re like the Clarke Kent of blogging.
July 29, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Most people have heard of Superman. If they are aware of our secret identity, it doesn’t mean a thing.
It’s like saying: “Ha haaa! I am also the person who delivered a newspaper to your house many years ago before you actually bought it. You didn’t expect that, did you?”
July 29, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I’m not going to lie KC, I don’t understand what you’re trying to say there.
Nevermind.