What are some unexpected events in the history of cricket?

 A cricketer was banned for 10 years for conceding 92 runs in just 4 balls. Yes, you read that right, conceeded 92 runs in just 4 balls and then banned for 10 years. Let’s know what really happened.

This incident happened with Bangladeshi Cricketer, Sujon Mahmud

It was the Dhaka Second Division League Match and he was playing for Lalmatia Club. In the first innings, they were all out for just 88 runs and the team believed that they had been subject to extremely poor umpiring decisions.

As a protest to poor umpiring, Sujon Mahmud started to deliberately bowl wides and no balls. He bowled a whopping 13 wides which all went for a four and also bowled four no-balls which were all smashed for a boundary. On the four legitimate deliveries, the batsman smashed three fours to bring the total to 92 runs.

So in the four legitimate balls, the opponent easily scored 92 runs and as you can see in this scorecard photo below, Sujon ended with 92 runs conceeded in just 4 balls.

This incident of deliberate bowling wides and no-balls to protest poor umpiring was then investigated and it was considered to be damaging to the image of cricket and hence, Lalmatia club was banned indefinitely from the competition and the coach, captain and the manager were given five-year bans.

At last, the bowler, Sujon Mahmud, was handed a 10-year ban.

Which actor had the most unexpected cameo performance in a movie?

 1.Michael Jackson in 'Men in Black 2' (2002)

2. John McCain in 'Parks and Recreation' (2012)

3. Joe Biden in 'Parks and Recreation'

4. The Jonas Brothers in 'Night at the Museum 2' (2009)\

5. Elon Musk in 'Iron Man 2' (2010)

6. Donald Trump in 'Home Alone 2: Lost In New York' (1992)

What is an unexpected danger in Australia?

 The unexpected danger in Australia, is how far everything is. The distances are huge.

In the outback desert especially.
Travellers die there with unnerving frequency. Foreigners die; urban Australians die; local aborigines die. They drive in cars, they think the cars can handle it, they think they have enough provisions, but no, no, no.

Guess what this shows? It shows the Shelton family—Steve, Skye, their 4 children—in the middle of the Simpson Desert. If you magnify the photo (The Australian Magazine, 24–25 November 2018), you will find their 1998 Nissan Patrol GU, plus their camper-trailer with a blue awning attached, plus the 2008 Nissan Patrol of Rick Shea and his daughter, who came to their aid. But who couldn’t do much, apart from stay with them.

The Sheltons left the Mount Dare Hotel on Wednesday, 5th September 2018. They were at the end of a 4-week driving holiday from their home near Brisbane, Queensland, across the Northern Territory.
The Simpson Desert is 175,000 sq km in area and between 550 and 715 kilometres wide, depending on which track you take. It consists of more than 1100 parallel sand dunes running north-south. The Sheltons began driving to Birdsville, 477 km away.

On Friday morning, the engine stalled on the crest of a dune. Uh-oh. They had brought lots of water, but the aluminium container stored under the trailer had burst: 110 litres were gone. They had 84 litres left.
They had a UHF line-of-sight radio. It did not reach far, what with the undulating terrain, but it did reach Rick Shea and his daughter, who were driving to Rockhampton, Queensland. They arrived.

Rick had an HF radio, which covers 1000’s of kilometres. Rick rang the Birdsville Roadhouse for its recovery service. Birdsville said to ring the Mount Dare Hotel, which was “closer”: 240 km away. Mount Dare wanted $5000 upfront.
About 10,000 to 15,000 tourists cross the desert every season, and many break down. Mount Dare effects 20 to 25 recoveries per season. If a camper-trailer needs rescuing, that requires 2 trucks (there and back), wages for the mechanics, money for fixing the trucks (they break down too and suffer terrible wear and tear). It does not come cheap. More like, $440 per hour.

The Sheltons had problems with their credit card; they eventually got $3000 from their parents. They were told the rescue trucks would arrive on Sunday. The trucks did not arrive on Sunday. One of the trucks had been in a crash, the other was waiting for a part. The replacement parts were being sourced by the Kulgera Roadhouse.
It is 1 day’s drive from Kulgera to Mount Dare. It is 2 days’ drive from Mount Dare to where the Sheltons were stranded.

Late on Tuesday afternoon—after 5 days of waiting, with dwindling water and food—2 Nissan Patrols crested the dune with, each, a mechanic from Kulgera. They unloaded 120 litres of water. It took them 4 hours, to find the broken sensor in the timing mechanism. They built a replacement.
On Wednesday morning, the mechanics accompanied the travellers for 50 km, then turned back for Kulgera. During the round trip, one of their trucks suffered a broken shock absorber, a shredded tyre, and a damaged fuel tank.
The Sheltons rolled into Birdsville on Thursday 13th September.
Their bill exceeded $10,000.

The moral of this tale is:
take a satellite phone and an emergency radio beacon; bring 7 litres of water per person per day; tell people when you expect to arrive; stay with your vehicle; and … make sure your credit card is active.