There’s a curious case bubbling up on the morning of the fifth day of the Ashes Test in Perth, with wild weather overnight soaking the pitch and causing England to mull over the rare tactic of insisting the match be abandoned due to poor pitch quality. Ground staff had to battle to keep covers on the ground this morning at the WACA stadium, with wind and rain whipping across the ground all morning.
And while the test is under threat due to the pitch, spare a thought for one groundskeeper who was utterly, totally, unbelievably rinsed by a flying cover sheet earlier this morning.
Channel 9 caught footage of the cover being whipped up by the wind, tossing it across the ground and laying a wholesale beatdown on the bloke-in-question.
Get.
Absolutely.
REKT, m8.
GOT HIM! Don’t worry guys… He’s okay. 😄 #Ashes pic.twitter.com/3zrvGQ2KRi
— Wide World of Sports (@wwos) December 18, 2017
Hard to see anyone coming back from a beating that comprehensive. Physically, the man is reportedly ok. But do you ever truly recover from being owned that hard? We have our doubts.
For whatever it’s worth, umpires at the game are insisting that play will commence this afternoon after a delay to dry the pitch out. Whether England wants that to happen or not is another thing entirely.
