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Title: Pet excuses
Post by: bk on May 25, 2017, 01:59:38 PM: Doug Bracewell's blamed his recent shenanigans on a dead parrot. Suppose it beats Graeme Swann's cat. Anyone got any other VIZ suitable stories about cricket's top excuses?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40041672 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40041672)
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: FattusCattus on May 25, 2017, 02:20:42 PM: I bowl badly because I keep injuring my left arm picking up my cat...............he is very fat!

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Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: shamelessshaun on May 25, 2017, 02:37:16 PM: Did Shane Watson not blame his dog for eating his homework? ;)
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: Seniorplayer on May 25, 2017, 05:02:38 PM: Dropped a catch once on a a pitch covered in Canada geese droppings slipped on it.
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: Byo on May 25, 2017, 05:07:21 PM: Quote from: Seniorplayer on May 25, 2017, 05:02:38 PM
Dropped a catch once on a a pitch covered in Canada geese droppings slipped on it.
Are you sure it wasn't Woakes's fault!!! 😉
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: jblowe on May 25, 2017, 06:54:51 PM: I was practicing my spin bowling while walking the dog yesterday, and felt something ping in the back of my left knee, limping a lot today. And the bloody dog didn't fetch the ball, just ignored it and walked off
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on May 25, 2017, 07:46:31 PM: When Tammie was a puppy she went through a phase of chewing up anything that she could get hold of.
That included my pair of Chase 175 batting gloves... D'oh
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: skip1973 on May 26, 2017, 02:49:31 AM: It's a common thing here for outgoing batsmen to tell the ingoing guy that the bowling's (No Swearing Please), even though they had just been dismissed by it. Always amuses me.
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: Biggie Smalls on May 26, 2017, 10:10:10 AM: I'm sure there was an english test player who missed a test ( 70s/80s) due to falling off/out of his desk chair in his hotel room . I'm sure I vaguely remember Gower, or someone similar, recalling the story .
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: LcWoodward on May 26, 2017, 12:39:00 PM: Fair enough excuses for your first time offences, but I read somewhere this was Bracewell's third time of being caught drink driving?
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: FattusCattus on May 26, 2017, 12:47:59 PM: Perhaps he had 3 Cockatoos?
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: Calzehbhoy on May 26, 2017, 01:31:17 PM: Wont somebody please stop and think of the poor cockatoo? :(
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: bk on May 28, 2017, 09:58:21 AM: Quote from: Biggie Smalls on May 26, 2017, 10:10:10 AM
I'm sure there was an english test player who missed a test ( 70s/80s) due to falling off/out of his desk chair in his hotel room . I'm sure I vaguely remember Gower, or someone similar, recalling the story .
It was Derek Pringle whilst stuffing envelopes with tickets for his mates. Slept on the floor to cure it and made it worse!
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: Biggie Smalls on May 28, 2017, 10:15:06 AM: Quote from: bk on May 28, 2017, 09:58:21 AM
It was Derek Pringle whilst stuffing envelopes with tickets for his mates. Slept on the floor to cure it and made it worse!

Thanks for jogging my memory.... i knew it was something totally innocuous! :)
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: procricket on May 28, 2017, 10:34:10 AM: I once spilt red wine and I mean knocked the full bottle over on a nice new white carpet in my wife mum house, blamed her dog !!!!
Title: Re: Pet excuses
Post by: skip1973 on May 28, 2017, 10:35:34 AM: Quote from: procricket on May 28, 2017, 10:34:10 AM
I once spilt red wine and I mean knocked the full bottle over on a nice new white carpet in my wife mum house, blamed her dog !!!!
Poor dogs, mine gets blamed for everything in my house.