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The longest club ban ever?
Jeez, I've called my team mates far worse!
Jeez, I've called my team mates far worse!
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In 1938 a fiery 14-year-old bowler, Dennis Hibbert, called a team-mate a "big fat fool" after he let a ball through his legs during a club match in Nottingham. It was hardly the sort of comment to turn Andrew Symonds puce with anger, but the remarks were still deemed rude enough for the uppity young Hibbert to be slapped with a ban that was not officially lifted for 70 years.
In January 2008, Hibbert attended a funeral tea in the Kimberley Institute pavilion, where he was reminded he was still, officially, persona non grata. "It must be the longest on record," said the club secretary Jim Dymond, while Hibbert - now a grandfather of five - said: "There are very few people who have been banned for 70 years from anything. But now I've been purged from my sins and admitted back. My family thinks it's a hoot."