Former Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson told an interesting anecdote concerning Adam Gilchrist and Michael Kasprowicz from a past tour of India. The 41-year-old expressed that Gilchrist and Kasprowicz came across a cockroach over lunch at a hotel in Nagpur.
In his column for the West Australian, Johnson explained how the keeper-batter and pacer were terrified to see a cockroach, and the waiter avoided it.
“India also seems to throw up the bizarre, and a couple of tales come to mind from Nagpur. Adam Gilchrist and Michael Kasprowicz tell a tale about having lunch at the Pride Hotel when the waiter lifted a lid only to reveal a cockroach scurrying away. They were understandably horrified, so the waiter picked it up, put it in his mouth, and claimed everything was OK. It’s not a cockroach.”
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The 73-Test experienced further stated that the burning heat in Vadodara once constrained him to have an ice bath:
“Once, while playing in Vadodara, we heard about people’s thongs melting into the road while they were walking across the street. I had to change my shirt twice that day and get into an ice bath to cool off, and that was just a one-day game.”
The former fast bowler wrote the column ahead of Australia’s future tour of India. Mitchell Johnson, one of Australia’s lucky bowlers, toured India two times and took 21 scalps in 7 Tests with a solitary fifer.
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