Forget silly mid-off, these cricket icons were chilly mid-off as they took part in a star-studded game held on top of a frozen lake.
Superstars including Monty Panesar, Virender Sehwag and Andrew Symonds swapped sun-baked outfields and short sleeves for the Swiss Alps and woolly hats as they smashed boundaries in St Moritz.
As temperatures plummeted to -12°C on 8-9 February, two teams – Team Royal and Badrutt Palace Diamond – took part in a pair of T20 matches.
The Royals clinched the two-match series 2-0 after winning the first and second match by six and eight wickets respectively.
Royals’ Owais Shah was named the Player of the Match of his superlative innings of 74* runs from 34 balls in the first T20. And Jacques Kallis of the Royals, who scored 90* runs off 37 balls, bagged the Player of the Match award in the second T20.
Cricket fans from all over Europe braved the freezing temperatures to watch the exhibition, which was commentated on by Wasim Akram and Charu Sharma.
The ‘Cricket on Ice’ event was started 25 years ago by some Britishers and has been played by amateurs on St Moritz ever since.
(With inputs from AP)
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