Never mind your shapeshifting pan-dimensional monsters and your plucky but by now suspiciously old high school students - the real stranger things happen in the last hour of Love Lane Liverpool Competition games.
Newton-le-Willows were coasting in pursuit of Southport & Birkdale’s 142, when all of a sudden things started to turn upside down.
“My blood pressure has gone through the roof,” admitted captain Chris Chambers after the hosts wrapped up a nervy three-wicket win, their fifth in the ECB Premier Division since winning promotion.