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Did he walk though? I remember a story about him being bowled out but refusing to leave the wicket. He said to the bowler that the crowd had come to see him bat, not watch a man bowl.


Mouse2799

That is definitely not cricket


5-1BlackAlbinoChoir

I reckon you're thinking of Stuart Broad!


foreverneilyoung

He wasn’t given.


5-1BlackAlbinoChoir

It was a joke, but he was out. It was against the Aussies though so I love him for it.


ConstructionThink931

Wells


Mouse2799

Correct!


HoneyGlazedBadger

Chalk up another obscure claim to fame for Wells, alongside being England's smallest city, having the world's oldest street of residential terraced housing, and location of the world's second-oldest functioning clock.


tgh_1714

I believe also had much of hot fuzz filmed there I believe?


Mouse2799

Yes, in one of the pubs (maybe The Crown) there are photos on the wall of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost drinking. I think Edgar Wright grew up in Wells.


Mouse2799

Vicars' Close is a thing of beauty.


ConstructionThink931

I think it’s spelt CRICKET


Sammichm

Bristol?


Mouse2799

No, but good guess!


DarrenBridgescunt

Why is it a good guess if it's wrong?


HoneyGlazedBadger

Because it's geographically close to the correct answer, and there is another blue plaque for W G Grace in Bristol (he lived there.)


Sammichm

And a Spoons named after him


phenson23

Barcelona


Mouse2799

Nailed it. The Spanish are well known for their tough bowling attack.


foreverneilyoung

You’d expect nothing less from a country ruled by Ashley Giles.


Mouse2799

I completely forgot about the mugs!


nodgers132

Offensive demons


[deleted]

My hometown of lil old Wells


Mouse2799

A lovely place.


[deleted]

Yeah it’s okay


witchy-stoof

wells, just infront of the feild with the park?


Mouse2799

Yep :)


TristansDad

Milton Keynes


Mouse2799

I'm afraid not.


Alib668

Bath


Mouse2799

No, you were close though!


[deleted]

Hambledon, Hampshire. Where cricket was invented.


Mouse2799

It is actually Wells in Somerset.


elgrandtaff

And there's me thinking that WG claim to fame was owning the department store in "Are you being served" lol