Afridi tucks in
After Shahid Afridi attempted to bite the ball during the fifth ODI in Perth, Patrick Kidd writes in the Times that he must be "the stupidest captain in the history of the game".
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
After Shahid Afridi attempted to bite the ball during the fifth ODI in Perth, Patrick Kidd writes in the Times that he must be "the stupidest captain in the history of the game".
I wonder what the umpires were saying to him as they pointed out the apparent canine indentations. "Looks like someone's been chewing on this, skipper," one umpire might say. "Gosh, how strange," Afridi says, "was it a stray beaver? I hear there are a lot of beavers in Perth. Or maybe a dingo."
He did not subtly pick at it or try to play football with it, Stuart Broad-style, he wrapped his lips round the ball and gnawed upon it. Was he just peckish? Did he think that the fact he had walked past the umpire a second or two earlier meant that no one would spot him treating a cricket ball like an apple?
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo