Post by Carl LaFong on May 18, 2020 18:02:55 GMT
Of cricket’s many humiliations, the king pair – two first-ballers in the same match – is surely the most ignominious
www.theguardian.com/sport/the-nightwatchman/2020/may/18/king-pairs-short-history-greatest-indignity-cricket
A west Indian fan of Gavaskar once made a bet with another West Indian fan. Gavaskar's windies fan said that my man will make more runs than both your openers combined. But alas Gavaskar got bowled for just 1.
Nut then a funny thing happened, Dev and Sandhu got Haynes and Greenidge for ducks and the Gavaskar's fan won the bet. Gavaskar was so famous in the Caribbeans that they wrote songs on him.
Queen's Park Oval, Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad, 11th March, 1983
howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard.asp?MatchCode=0950 Match tied.
nice anecdote.There was a cricketer from my home town in Scotland who played one test for England.
It was against SA in Joburg and he was out for a duck both innings (faced 6 balls in the first innings and 3 in the second, so not a king pair) and took no wickets from 63 balls bowled.
And he never played another test again ... not surprisingly!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Hamilton_(cricketer)