Maxwellitis, a cricketing hallucination
Hindustan TimesAn outbreak of overactive imagination was recorded in Mumbai in the early hours yesterday. This is the stage at which the afflicted began to refer to a possibly mythical creature variously called “Maxi”, “Mad Max”, “Big Show” or “Maxwell”. Another said: “I’ve seen a lot of cricket, I have never seen anything like that.” Freak, freakoid, freakish, freakster – most respondents used the F word and its variants. They described Cummins coming to a press conference – as if indeed all of this had happened – and saying this Maxwell “he can’t move and still manages to hit a six over third man with reverse – he’s a freak”, that the guy’s “back was cramping, and then hamstrings, calves, for one over he said his toe was gone”. I wish we could have.” At one point he allegedly sighed, “That’s cricket” – which is the closest anyone has yet identified as the likely cause for the hallucinatory condition now afflicting millions around the world.
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