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Why Did a 1939 Cricket Test End Because of a Boat?
From the BBN segment “The cricket match that ended because of a boat”, cut down to under a minute.
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Wikipedia.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyFolks, a cricket match has been running for nine days, and the only thing that can stop it is a boat! A boat!
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyThe score is out of control, and the whole thing was supposed to take five days at most!
Chip DarnellA boat? That can't be real, Rex.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyIt's a timeless Test, Chip. No time limit at all. It goes on until somebody wins, and nobody has told the boat!
Chip DarnellNo time limit. I once spent a whole afternoon in one drive-through lane, so I respect the commitment.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyIt was supposed to be five days.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyNine days of play get spread over twelve days, because of the rain, and England are sitting on six hundred fifty-four for five in the last innings!
Chip DarnellSix hundred fifty-four. For five?
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyAnd they walk away, Chip!
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyThe England team has to leave on the fourteenth of March to catch their boat home, and the match is abandoned as a draw!
Chip DarnellThey left in the middle of a game? For a boat? I would have rebooked!
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyThat's Durban, South Africa, March nineteen thirty-nine, per Wikipedia.
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyAnd timeless Tests were dropped after that, partly because nobody could predict when a match would finish.
Chip DarnellSo the boat beat the match that never ends. Did the boat get a trophy?
Rex "Two-Point" GridleyNo trophy, Chip. It just sailed off undefeated, which means a boat accomplished what nine days of cricket couldn't!
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