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^This. As a teenager growing up in the UK I played cricket for my school and a local team, and when I was about 14 I had the "pleasure" of facing roughly four
by escapologybb 9y ago
^This.
As a teenager growing up in the UK I played cricket for my school and a local team, and when I was about 14 I had the "pleasure" of facing roughly four balls bowled by the Legendary West Indies cricketer Viv Richards[1] when he visited my school. I somehow managed to get the bat onto the first ball and score a 4, at which I foolishly celebrated shouting something along the lines of "in your face, I thought you were a professional cricketer!" What a stupid, stupid thing to do.
There then followed a three ball lesson in bodyline bowling until I literally lost my bottle and refused to carry on leaving the wicket with what little dignity I had left. Seriously, seeing that giant six-foot tall man taking a run-up and then bowling a cricket ball at my head at what seemed like supersonic speed literally scared the crap out of me.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Richards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Richards