- Oct 19, 2020
- 28,519
- 38,902
- AFL Club
- Richmond
The story of a great young man.
One year ago, he was a fat unemployed pizza maker, and the only girl he could get was a cheap Guyanese hooker.
Due to a player shortage, the West Indian Prime Minister asked him to join the touring squad after seeing the young man at a pizziara .
A man who wasn't even supposed to be at the ground ended up delivering one of the all-time-great Test-match spells.
"I'm not putting down this ball until the last wicket falls," Shamar Joseph tells his captain Kraigg Brathwaite on the fourth day at the Gabba.
On Saturday evening, a yorker crashes into the toe of Shamar, who ends up writhing in agony on the floor. He is forced to retire hurt and is helped off the ground. His Test match looks over. A scan clears him of a fracture, but he's in such pain during the evening that he can barely sleep, before eventually drifting off at around 4am.
Shamar is not expecting to take the field and doesn't even initially bother heading to the ground on Sunday morning before deciding to go and support his team-mates in their victory push.
He came to the ground with 3 pizzas and a bottle of rum.
The team doctor gives him some pills and captain Brathwaite tells him he's going to take the field.
Ten overs into the fourth day at the Gabba, Steven Smith and Cameron Green have taken Australia to 93 for 2 and the target of 216 starts to loom into view. A patched-up and painkiller-laden Shamar comes on from the Vulture Street End.
He then ripped the heart out of Australia taking 7 for 68 .
Shamar you are a scholar and a gentleman.
Shove that up your clacka Australia.
One year ago, he was a fat unemployed pizza maker, and the only girl he could get was a cheap Guyanese hooker.
Due to a player shortage, the West Indian Prime Minister asked him to join the touring squad after seeing the young man at a pizziara .
A man who wasn't even supposed to be at the ground ended up delivering one of the all-time-great Test-match spells.
"I'm not putting down this ball until the last wicket falls," Shamar Joseph tells his captain Kraigg Brathwaite on the fourth day at the Gabba.
On Saturday evening, a yorker crashes into the toe of Shamar, who ends up writhing in agony on the floor. He is forced to retire hurt and is helped off the ground. His Test match looks over. A scan clears him of a fracture, but he's in such pain during the evening that he can barely sleep, before eventually drifting off at around 4am.
Shamar is not expecting to take the field and doesn't even initially bother heading to the ground on Sunday morning before deciding to go and support his team-mates in their victory push.
He came to the ground with 3 pizzas and a bottle of rum.
The team doctor gives him some pills and captain Brathwaite tells him he's going to take the field.
Ten overs into the fourth day at the Gabba, Steven Smith and Cameron Green have taken Australia to 93 for 2 and the target of 216 starts to loom into view. A patched-up and painkiller-laden Shamar comes on from the Vulture Street End.
He then ripped the heart out of Australia taking 7 for 68 .
Shamar you are a scholar and a gentleman.
Shove that up your clacka Australia.
Last edited:
