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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
James Wallace

Tom Curran’s sledging added rare intensity to Hundred spectacle

Liam Livingstone of Birmingham Phoenix celebrates victory as Saqib Mahmood of Oval Invincibles looks dejected.
Liam Livingstone batted off Tom Curran’s sledging to lead Birmingham Phoenix to victory against Oval Invincibles in the Hundred. Photograph: Matt Lewis/ECB/Getty Images

“Fat slob?” Well that’s not very nice. But as insults go, I suppose it gets the job done. What’s that? I’ve got a what … a surfboard on my front leg? A surf … say again, Davey? No, you’ve lost me.

It has been a busy few weeks for the sledgers. First up, Liam Livingstone v Tom Curran. Ding Ding! Curran normally gives off the energy of a man who would only really emerge from his perma-chilled bunker if, say, someone smashed his avocado the wrong way. Yet here he was on a Tuesday evening at Edgbaston throwing off his fedora and dungaree sporting coffee-bro image to give his “good friend” Livingstone an earful as his Oval Invincibles grappled with Birmingham Phoenix.

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