Check out: Cricket match halted as cab driver parks his car in middle of pitch

Brisbane: Often called a gentleman’s sport, cricket is known to have been witness to many untoward incidences that have invariably either stopped play or have made fans go berserk in stands. While matches have been paused for sometime due to streakers or animals on the outfield, this match here recently saw play halted when a cab driver left his car parked in middle of the pitch.

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During Queensland’s Warehouse Cricket Association B1 fixture between local Macgregor and Griffith University, Macgregor’s Nigel Sherborne clobbered the ball which went over the boundary and smashed the windscreen of the parked cab. Furious at the sight, the driver decided to vent his anger out. During the innings break he drove his car onto the ground at DM Henderson Park.

He parked his vehicle bang in the middle of the pitch before Griffith university could even start their innings. “Nigel hit a straight drive off Tom English for a six smashing into a parked cabbie,” Macgregor secretary Troy Burns wrote on the club’s Facebook page. Burns added, “Not happy and in protest he then drove onto the field and parked in the centre of the pitch.”

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The cops were called in and the driver had to move his car and let play resume with 8 overs already being lost due to the unforeseen situation.

Macgregor’s day went from bad to worse as wicketkeeper Brett ‘BJ’ Bednarski was hit by a follow through from a hook shot only seven overs into the game. Luckily there was no serious injury to Bednarski. 

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