#rugby

2 incidents tagged

Andrew Symonds Shoulder-Charges a Streaker

Australia vs India

2008-03-27

Andrew Symonds flattened a streaker who ran onto the field during an ODI, shoulder-charging him with the force of a rugby player and sending him sprawling.

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Frank Mitchell, the English-Born South Africa Captain of 1912

South Africa and England

1912-06-10

Frank Mitchell, born in Yorkshire and a former England rugby international, was selected to captain South Africa in the 1912 Triangular — one of the most extreme cases of cross-national selection in cricket history. South Africa lost all five of their Tests under his leadership.

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