Ex-Scotland Star, 83, Plays With Oxygen Cylinder On His Back. Watch | Cricket News

The love for cricket is aware of no age and one of many largest instance of that’s 83-year-old Scottish cricketer Alex Steele. The wicket-keeper made his debut for Scotland means again in 1967 towards English county facet Lancashire however his love and fervour for the sport has remained the identical. A membership cricketer for Forfarshire Cricket Club, Steele nonetheless seems for matches and not too long ago a video of him holding wickets has gone viral. The 83-year-old was seen on the sector whereas carrying an oxygen cylinder on his again however that didn’t cease him from giving his all. He has been affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal respiratory illness, since 2020.

Steele was a daily member of the Scotland cricket crew in the course of the Nineteen Sixties and he has performed 14 first-class matches. During his profession, he scored 621 runs at a mean of 24.84 with two half-centuries (each of them coming towards Ireland). Behind the stumps, he took 11 catches and accomplished two stumpings for his nationwide facet.

Recently, a video went viral on social media, the place an previous man could possibly be seen enjoying ‘imaginary cricket’. In the video, the previous man impersonated a batter who appeared to have hit a six off a bouncer. After the ‘imagined six’, the person even waved his perceived bat within the air, celebrating the shot.

As for the ODI World Cup, although the schedule for the occasion is already out, some adjustments are prone to be made within the coming days.

It has been discovered that India’s World Cup match towards Pakistan, origninally scheduled to be held on October 15, will likely be preponed by a day as a consequence of Navaratri conflict.

According to a PTI report, Pakistan can even play Sri Lanka on October 10 as a substitute of October 12 in Hyderabad which is able to facilitate a three-day hole earlier than the India sport.

(With company inputs)

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