I happened to be passing through London Heathrow when the Aussies were getting butchered at Adelaide. You got to hand it to the British press and their sense of humour. The articles they write even when the home team is not doing well are quite humorous and tongue in cheek. I read one such article in The Mail and the author took jibes at Simon Katich getting a duck. So he went on to describe the various types of ducks in cricket. According to him a batsman gets a Golden Duck when he gets out on the first ball that he faces. That is a well known term.
What Katich got was a Platinum duck according to him, because he was at the non striker’s end and was run out without facing a ball. Then the author stretched his imagination and said that the highest honour as far as the anniversaries are concerned is the Granite Anniversary, which is celebrated after 90 years. So what would be a Granite duck?
Well, here it goes. The umpire calls the start of the innings and the two openers start walking out of the dressing room. As they take the stairs to walk down, one of the batsmen drops his pants and they get entangled in his shoes. As a result of this, he starts tumbling down and injures his leg. As he reaches the bottom of the stairs, the masonry work from the roof falls on his head and he has to be rushed to the hospital for treatment. The umpires in the mean time declare him timed out. That my friends is a Granite Duck, because the player did not even come on the field. Great isn’t it?
Of all the folks who have got out under such silly circumstances, I can only think of Inzy to be a good candidate for a Granite Duck.
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