My sporting highlight of the week? ...... I came across this from one of the Jeppe parents:
Jeppe and St David's 3rd cricket teams met on Saturday. The game's not so deadly serious at those schools, at that level, and this was their last match of the season - and ever, for the matrics who were playing.
Jeppe, batting second, were cruising and need six runs to win, with a bit of a trundler bowling and the facing batsman shaping to knock it out of the park (who wouldn't want to, under the circumstances). Then he was approached by the St David's captain who asked him not to. He intended giving one of the matrics in the team the next over. It would be the last time he bowls for the school, he said.
The next ball was a dolly, but the batsman blocked it. The matric got to bowl his over and Jeppe reached the target soon afterwards, but cricket, and the spirit of sport, won the game. Marvellous!
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