![]() ![]() “Quite honestly, when I look back on the Peshawar incident,” he told the MCC committee when he was back in Britain, “I think it was about the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life.” Baig was a stuffy sort, who once told the MCC’s tour manager Geoffrey Howard: “You must understand … that a lot of the crowd come to watch me umpire.” It’s not a coincidence that the same day Baig was dunked in water, he had also given three dubious LBWs against England, and turned down a certain one of their own. ![]() As for Carr, well, he thought it had all been a good bit of a fun. The tour would have been called off if the MCC president, Field Marshal Alexander of Tunis, had not made a sincere apology to his counterpart at the Pakistani board, Iskander Mirza, an old colleague of his from the campaigns on the North-West Frontier.Įven after the team had left, the British Deputy High Commissioner complained that the incident had caused a “tremendous setback” in relations between the two nations. The British Deputy High Commission in Lahore went into lockdown, and, according to one of the staff, the only reason there wasn’t a riot at the gates was because of the torrential rain. If it wasn’t already apparent, the degree to which Carr had misjudged the mood became clear when his team returned to the ground after the rest day and found themselves surrounded by a crowd chanting “Shame! Shame!” and “MCC go home!” For the rest of the tour, England travelled with an armed police guard.
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