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  • Cricket-security police fall ill with food poisoning

    Posted: March 22nd, 2011 - 5:26pm by Doug Powell

    Apparently there’s a World Cup of cricket and apparently it’s being held in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

    I’m not being disrespectful, I just wouldn’t know. I do know there’s a Capitals-Flyers game on TV tonight (that’s hockey).

    Whatever the sport, players play lousy when they barf. And if security’s barfing, there should be some red flags around the athletes.

    Reuters reports around 60 policemen on World Cup security duty in Dhaka fell sick on Tuesday after eating contaminated food.

    The policemen, who were on duty at Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Stadium and the teams' hotel, were taken to hospital after eating food supplied by a local contractor.

    Colonel Mesbahuddin, the security chief for the local organising committee, said, "The policeman started vomiting shortly after having the food. Around 50 of them were taken to hospital for treatment."

    The sick policeman included more than a dozen members of the elite security force, Rapid Action Battalion. The food supplier was taken into custody.

    The incident took place on the eve of the first quarter-final between Pakistan and West Indies.

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  • New Zealand cricketers felled by food poisoning

    Posted: August 22nd, 2009 - 12:37pm by Doug Powell

    I don’t understand cricket -- other than it may be as boring as baseball --  but I do understand barf.

    Tillakaratne Dilshan achieved the milestone he narrowly missed in Sri Lanka's first innings to post an unbeaten 123     as New Zealand became increasingly dependent on rain to stave off defeat in the first cricket test in Galle last night.

    New Zealand had little to enthuse about once it became apparent morning rain would not stall the start of play for the first time since a delayed toss.

    Their mood darkened further when Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder called in sick at breakfast, the worst affected of eight players struck down by food poisoning.

    Only Ross Taylor, Martin Guptill and Iain O'Brien were immune from the bug that provided Auckland wicketkeeper Reece Young with his first experience of test cricket.


     

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  • Cricket bats are not stirring spoons

    Posted: January 19th, 2009 - 1:47pm by Doug Powell

    South Shropshire Journals reports that rat droppings, a cricket bat used to stir vats of curry sauce which was later gnawed by rats, and various holes used by the pests were found at a Chinese restaurant in Knighton.

    Inspectors found evidence of rat activity at the Mandarin House Take-away at 50 Market Street when they carried out routine checks on March 5 last year.

    On Friday, Chun-Hung Cheung was fined a total of £2,000 and ordered to pay £500 costs and a £15 victim surcharge after admitting five charges under the Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006.
     

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