The Competitive Cricketer

by Guest Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:03 am

Ian Chappell's biography (by Ashley Mallet) has this anecdote:

Chappel and Rodney Marsh (the legendary Aussie wicket keeper) were playing competitive golf against each other after their retirement. So that they could start the golf game early in the morning they shacked up the night before their match at a friend's house near the gold course. But they kept chatting with their host after dinner so that it was only at 5 a.m. that they got to sleep. Chappel and Marsh were asked to share a bedroom (with a double bed) for paucity of space.

A lot of the after dinner talk had been about about gay cricketers and sportspersons. So, the conversation still in his mind when they were on the double bed, Chappel reached over and gently squeezed Marsh's testicles. Marsh gave a loud cry of 'what the hell is going on?' and then lay awake all night in case a similar gesture is repeated; while Chappell went of to sleep. You see, Chappell was trying to give himself a competitive advantage for the game the next day.

So who won the golf game the next day? Rod Marsh.

by Guest Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:07 am

Then there is this anecdote from Dennis Lillee's autobiography 'Menace':

Lillee and his wife were in Scotland. He was playing country cricket. They had been put up in a dilapidated cottage in which an old woman, recently deceased, had been staying for a long time. Everything in the cottage was old and run-down.

So when Lillee and his wife got on the bed in the bedroom, the bed broke. The next morning when Lillee complained about the broken bed to the concerned authorities it quickly became the talk of town. People thought the bed had broken because of Lillee's sexual prowess!

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