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Cricketer kills pigeon with throw, we get super slo-mo replays...

I've never made any secret of the fact that I don't particularly like cricket. Too stuffy, too toffy, not enough athleticism required.

But if I were this unfortunate pigeon, killed by a throw from Jacques Rudolph in a recent Twenty20 game between Yorkshire and Lancashire, I'd hate it even more.

And did we really need to see numerous slow-mo replays of the bird getting beaned and the resultant excrement explosion?

The reaction of the fans - much hilarity - is another reason I can't ever see me getting on with the sport. Perhaps they were just happy that something had actually happened to lift the pure, unadulterated boredom they must have been experiencing - you couldn't pay me enough to go and watch a game.

But then, I actually have a life.

posted on Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:23 PM by Mark Heath

Comments

Friday, June 05, 2009 12:31 AM by Fred Truemans Ghost

# re: Cricketer kills pigeon with throw, we get super slo-mo replays...

But Mark obviously as you hate cricket so much you werent watching the game live on Sky anyway, so wouldnt have seen the replays in the first place, to have taken so much offence from them.

And you wouldnt then know Sky didnt replay the incident numerous times during the match in slo-mo, they replayed it twice, partly to explain what had happened to the ball, partly to explain why Jacques Rudolph was wandering round the outfield with a dead pigeon.

As for the fans, well it was a Lancashire/Yorkshire local derby, these events are often accompanied by an excess of ribaldry and bawdiness more often associated with other sports I could mention, and Id have drawn your attention to the couple of fans who ran on the pitch, whose countenance we can only guess at as Sky always refuse to show footage of the pitch invaders, but then I remembered you werent watching the game in the first place because you find cricket so boring.

Of course if either the England national men or womans team managed to triumph in the T20 world cup over the next few weeks,or won the Ashes, Im sure youll be blogging a post about how great a sporting spectacle it was and how "we" done good, thats if you can put your prawn sandwiches down long enough in your busy exciting life that you lead blogging for a regional newspaper.

Freddie