Sulieman Benn, it would seem, is quite a hazard – on and off the field. At a sponsors function in Guyana, held in Georgetown’s only nightclub but starting at the extremely well behaved and modest time of 7:30pm, the gangly left arm spinner went the full distance. And more. If the function had been the equivalent of a day’s Test cricket, he would have bowled 45 overs. At least.
The Zimbabwe team decided on a two-bus departure strategy to allow for those who were keen to escape the thudding, head-spinning music but also to allow for those who fancied a couple of beers. By 9:00am they were all gone which meant that at least a couple of the ‘management’ team were required to stay behind and mingle with the guests.
Conversation was only possible between those able to lipread and those carrying notebooks and pens but everyone seemed perfectly happy with a series of smiles and nods.
By 10:00pm most of the West Indies players, having become accustomed to retiring from such events far later than their touring opponents, had migrated to the dance floor where Benn’s routine was considerably different to that of his team mates. Instead of innocently imitating hard core sex with a straight face, he did an impression of an octopus being electrocuted.
Inevitably he bumped into a stranger on the dance floor who was neither a team mate nor a gyrating woman and, as such, immediately gave the man a couple of options. One was to leave the dance floor voluntarily and in good health.
Three days later Mr Benn wobbled through the hotel lobby in his boxer shorts and escorted a young lady to a waiting taxi. I wouldn’t normally have noticed this but, since the majority of both squads were waiting in the lobby to catch our obscenely early bus to the airport, I wasn’t the only one who noticed. Benn wasn’t selected for the next two games being overlooked for the clearly inferior spin of Nikita Miller. But I was assured it was merely a ‘horses for courses’ selection policy.
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