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Loading ...I have a feeling that this is a well designed Aus ploy of deflecting attention from their game, especially for the Eng media who seems to be hounding them. Their media manager being into it was the give-away clue for me 
Spooked Cricketers
By Will 5 years ago, mid-June Add your comment below
Gus Fraser’s running a story that the Aussies are spooked – or rather they’ve been spooked! Interesting story/aside, especially so due to Bangladesh having also been visited by ghostly visions in white (and I’m not talking about England’s Test bowlers!) last week.
The Australians are staying at Lumley Castle which, according to their website, is “no ordinary hotel.” I bet Shane Watson agrees – he was so spooked he spent the night on Brett Lee’s floor! But this little excerpt is the best:
Belinda Dennett, Australia’s media officer, also had a night she will never forget. “My phone went off in the middle of the night and I looked out of the window,” she said. “I knew I had closed the blinds but they were open and I saw a procession of white people walking past. It was amazing, very scary. Then I went back to bed and the blind went up, and there was someone looking in through the window. I know I wasn’t dreaming because I wrote down a message from my phone and the time.”
Last week, it was said the Bangladeshis also had ghostly-goings-on:
“Apparently he [Habibul Bashar] rushed out and attacked the ghoul,” Paul Mandeir, the general manager of the Redworth Hall hotel in County Durham said.
“In the ensuing melee, he awoke several other guests.”
But this time it was not one of the many ghosts fabled to roam the hotel’s corridors.
The offending spook was Bangladesh’s fast bowler – and practical joker – Mashrafe Mortaza carrying a bed sheet and a tape recorder.
I appreciate the “win at all costs” mantra of professional cricket, and England have certainly been playing aggressive cricket lately – but this is taking it too far…:)
Tags: brett-lee, ghosts, haunted, lumley-castle, Mashrafe-Mortaza, shane-watson |
3 Responses to “Spooked Cricketers”
June 23rd, 2005 at 10.46 am
June 23rd, 2005 at 12.47 pm
You cynic
April 27th, 2007 at 10.17 am
This is about shane watson who stayed at our hotel with the australian team.I was the person who took shane to where he was staying that day,the room he had room 61, there is no history it was haunted in or around that area i think he only moved from there because the room is to small for him because he is a tall lad a could not fit on the bed.He then asked to move from that room so he went to a courtyard room but did not like that either so eventually he ended up in room 46 better known as the haunted room but he did not get spooked there so i think he made a story up so he could move rooms but ironically ending up in the haunted room.shame
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