Graveyard Shifts

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Graveyard Shifts

Taunton, the home of Somerset, has often been thought of as a graveyard for bowlers. Well, now part of the ground really will be a graveyard - or more accurately, a former graveyard. The club has begun work to expand the playing area, which required the removal of 50 Victorian corpses buried just outside the boundary. "We have put up notices around the church and have done all we can to notify the public. No-one has carried out anything like this on a cricket ground," chief executive Richard Gould told the Times, and he added the local church diocese did not object and no relative has yet come forward to state opposition.

Just a cricketing 'funny' really - unless of course Taunton finds itself with a ghostly 12th man!
 
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