CRICKET
A huge sexual issue
surrounds things like this. You have to think that cricket is a family
” Kiwis remarkably uninterested!
celebrity Rihanna turned up to give her team her support. “Twitter went ballistic. She didn’t sing, but was a vision in white,” says Vic.
And, to round off the trio of Cup games, up popped a streaker to disrupt the England/New Zealand clash. “I heard the roar go up. He ran out on to the field wearing just a green frog helmet, kissed the pitch - The Kiwis were batting - with security in hot pursuit. They tried to throw a jacket over him but he dipped his shoulders and was away to roars from the crowd.”
When ‘Twickenham Streaker’ Erica Roe made her topless appearance at the rugby venue in 1982, she caused a flurry of media interest, but a wholly different dynamic holds true today, says Vic. “A huge sexual issue surrounds things like
this. You have to think that cricket is a family experience and youngsters shouldn’t be exposed to such actions.” “This was a serious crime.” Even then, the Durham groundsmen “got it in the ear”, Vic adds wryly. “Why didn’t we run on to assist removal of him from the ground.”
experience and youngsters shouldn’t be exposed to such actions
World Cup preparations
When the cricket World Cup came to town, the organisers requisitioned ten of Durham’s twenty-four pitches on the Riverside square, seven for practice and three for competition, explains Vic. “Our fixtures dropped here, but we played some at South Northumberland CC at Gosforth, near Newcastle, where Marcus North hails from.”
Each of the three Cup games was played on a different wicket, as the ICC instructed. “Everyone likes a fresh pitch to play on but,
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