Very similar to it’s a custom for a footballer to remove the match ball after scoring a hat-trick, a bowler will pocket the cricket ball after claiming a five-wicket haul.
However what occurs if two bowlers take five-wicket hauls in the identical innings?
England seamers Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue got here up with an answer after they snared 5 apiece on the opening day of the primary Take a look at in opposition to Pakistan.
“Robbo stated we will break up the ball in half,” Tongue informed Take a look at Match Particular. “The groundstaff have kindly finished that.
“It is the primary time I’ve seen that occur. I am positive I will be placing that up someplace.”
Robinson confirmed off his half in a media convention and defined: “We have been strolling off the sector.
“Josh stated it and I stated: ‘We truly ought to try this, it could be fairly cool.’
“You do not actually have too many halves of a cricket ball, so it could be one thing that we always remember.”
The efforts of the pace-bowling duo helped Joe Root get off to an excellent begin on the primary day of his second stint as England Take a look at captain.
Tongue claimed 5-46 and Robinson 5-51 to skittle Pakistan for 171 after England gained the toss. The house aspect moved to 112-2 by the shut in Leeds.
Tongue and Robinson are the primary pair of England bowlers to register five-wicket hauls in the identical Take a look at innings since Steve Harmison and Monty Panesar in opposition to Pakistan at Previous Trafford in 2006.
They led England off the sector at Headingley hand in hand, hatching their plan to make one ball into two halves.
“Wayne Bentley, the workforce supervisor, took it right down to the groundstaff,” stated Robinson.
“I stated: ‘Do you reckon they’ll be capable to do it?’ Inside 5 minutes he introduced it again up and it was finished. It is very nice.”
