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Title: Howzat!
Post by: Just One More on January 17, 2011, 11:38:23 PM

  Howzat  (http://www.break.com/index/crazy-cricket-throw-hits-flying-pigeon.html)

Title: Re: Howzat!
Post by: Barman on January 18, 2011, 06:45:14 AM

Vermin!  eveilgrin:

Title: Re: Howzat!
Post by: Snoopy on January 18, 2011, 06:49:03 AM

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This bird was famously stuffed and mounted on the ball that killed it over 70 years ago. It is normally on display in the Cricket Museum at Lords.The sparrow in question was on the receiving end of a ball delivered by Jehangir Khan in the MCC v Cambridge University fixture of 1936.