![]() Once in 1932 when the Nawab of Pataudi batted for half an hour without scoring, Yabba advised the umpire, a gas-meter inspector, to "put a penny in him George, he's stopped registering”. Yabba was a legendary character, associated with several noticeable witticisms. Out boomed a voice from the Sydney hill from the legendary Aussie cricket fan Yabba: "Leave those flies alone, they are your only friends here". to bounce at Don Bradman and the rest with many fielders behind the popping crease on the leg side - these days only 2 are allowed, he would shoo away a fly. Once, during that tour when he deployed his pacers Harold Harwood and co. England’s pugnacious captain Douglas Jardine, of the Bodyline fame. The crack about flies brings to the mind another cricketer and the Aussie flies. It had been a rainy day that had delayed the start and interrupted the game but Balbirnie had shone brightly to lit up the faces of the Irish fans. On the costume, a text ran: ‘Aussie flies are more annoying than this rain’. Their captain Andrew Balbirnie, who had played a wonderfully belligerent hand with a 47-ball 62 with 2 sixes and five fours had just got out in the 16th over He had swept Liam Livingstone right into the palms of deep square-leg and the fan hung his head in disappointment. The head bowed, face invisible, sadness pouring out. The Irish fan clad in a green costume stood up in agony. What has happenned Hand is that you are rocking. “I’m just trying now to take it all in and reflect on what has happened.” It happened so fast, but you can never give up really,” he had told Dublin’s newspaper The Independent. “If I look back, in the past six months I was working two jobs, in college and playing for Munster, and then all of a sudden I have two caps under my belt and a contract. Hand lost his head, heading into a celebratory run as his dreamy year continues. The ball sneaked through the bat-and-pad alley to peg back the stumps. ![]() It landed on a length around off and tilted in and Stokes, stuck to the crease, just about waved a forward defensive prod more in hope than any conviction. He would do one better on his world cup debut on Wednesday, producing a perfect nip-backing curler to leave Ben Stokes wincing and muttering. 9, the highest score recorded by a debutant batting at that position. In August, on his T20I debut against Afghanistan, Hand smashed a 18-ball 36 batting at No. Alex Hales couldn’t control a pull to a ball angled across him and was snapped up at square-leg.įionn Hand already has a record to his name. The left-arm seamer who reckons his wrist-snap at release confuses the batsmen as it can come out at a slightly more pace then they expect. In September 2016, he had already became the second-youngest player to feature in a T20.Īt the world cup stage, against England, he has produced a stunner. I got a lot of stick for it on social media and stuff,” he had told ICC website then. it was an important time for school, and I had to give the cricket a miss and try to do well in my exams. “I got picked to play against Afghanistan in Greater Noida, Delhi. Joshua Little has indeed gone well since then.Īt 17, In 2017, he was selected to play in a series in India but Little chose to skip it to focus on academics at school. ![]() That was a tweet this March by Cricket Ireland. "The experience as a net bowler for CSK should be fantastic. The experience as a net bowler for CSK should be fantastic. □□□ Congrats to Josh Little who is heading off on a development opportunity with the Chennai Super Kings in the early stages of the upcoming IPL. Congrats to Josh Little who is heading off on a development opportunity with the Chennai Super Kings in the early stages of the upcoming IPL. ![]()
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