OFFSIDE OFFSIDE Man charged £55k for a single beer


An Australian cricket journalist was mistakenly charged £55,000 for a single bottle of beer in a Manchester hotel.


Peter Lalor ordered the £5.50 Deuchers IPA at the city’s Malmaison hotel before being stunned to discover he had been charged £55,315.12 (A$99,983.64).


Mr Lalor, who was in the city to cover the Ashes series, now believes he drank “the most expensive beer in history”.


“I didn’t have my reading glasses when she presented me with a bill. I said I didn’t want a receipt and she went to leave.”


“Something, however, made me ask: ‘How much did I just pay for that beer?’ She checked, covered her mouth, started to giggle and refused to tell me, saying there had been a mistake and she would fix it.


A spokesman for Visa said the “unusual” case shows how important it is to always check details of payments and receipts.


Hole in one - at 81


It’s been over seventy years in the making, but great grandad Edward Grierson has finally achieved golf’s holy grail.


East Kilbride golfer, Edward Grierson, used a driver on the 174-yard 15th hole at Torrance House Golf Course recently during a white medal match.


And the great grandad of three was left stunned to see his effort find the cup.


Edward commented: “After so many disappointments down the years, it was quite amazing. What I can’t get over with


the hole in one is that I hit what I can only call the perfect shot. It came off the club perfectly.”


Ellyse’s spooning partner!


If the 10,000 hours of practice puts you off your dream of becoming an elite batsman, maybe you could try giving your bat some TLC and see where that gets you.


Ellyse Perry, the world’s leading all-rounder in women’s cricket, who has been pretty unbeatable for a few years now, carries her bat around everywhere with her and even sleeps with it.


“It’s a really good spooning partner at night,” she said, soon after scoring a series- clinching ODI century in Antigua. “We’re pretty close, my bat and I.”


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Match fees donated to groundstaff


Indian batsman Sanju Samson showed his appreciation for all the work the groundstaff had to do to get the India


A-South Africa A ODIs going, by donating his match fees of Rupees 1.5 lakh (approximately £1,700) to them.


“We have to give credit to the groundsmen. Because of them, we were able to play. If there was some wetness here or there, then the match officials would not have allowed matches to happen. We really have to thank them. So I have decided to give my match fees to the groundsmen.”


Sanju played two of the five ODIs - all of them rain-shortened - and made his highest List A score of 91 in the final game that India A won by 36 runs to take the series 4-1.


160 PC October/November 2019


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