Very like it’s a custom for a footballer to remove the match ball after scoring a hat-trick, a bowler will pocket the cricket ball after claiming a five-wicket haul.
However what occurs if two bowlers take five-wicket hauls in the identical innings?
England seamers Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue got here up with an answer after they snared 5 apiece on the opening day of the primary Check towards Pakistan.
“Robbo mentioned we are able to break up the ball in half,” Tongue informed Check Match Particular. “The groundstaff have kindly accomplished that.
“It is the primary time I’ve seen that occur. I am positive I will be placing that up someplace.”
Robinson confirmed off his half in a media convention and defined: “We have been strolling off the sector.
“Josh mentioned it and I mentioned: ‘We truly ought to do this, it might be fairly cool.’
“You do not actually have too many halves of a cricket ball, so it might be one thing that we always remember.”
The efforts of the pace-bowling duo helped Joe Root get off to a perfect begin on the primary day of his second stint as England Check captain.
Tongue claimed 5-46 and Robinson 5-51 to skittle Pakistan for 171 after England gained the toss. The house facet moved to 112-2 by the shut in Leeds.
Tongue and Robinson are the primary pair of England bowlers to register five-wicket hauls in the identical Check innings since Steve Harmison and Monty Panesar towards Pakistan at Outdated Trafford in 2006.
They led England off the sector at Headingley hand in hand, hatching their plan to make one ball into two halves.
“Wayne Bentley, the workforce supervisor, took it all the way down to the groundstaff,” mentioned Robinson.
“I mentioned: ‘Do you reckon they’ll be capable to do it?’ Inside 5 minutes he introduced it again up and it was accomplished. It is very nice.”