Forty-one yeago ano an unknown teenage all-rounder was hit by an Andy Roberts bouncer, spat a tooth or two out on to the pitch and got on with winning the match for Somerset – yes, IT Botham always knew how to get noticed.
He was hit on the helmet by a fast, straight bouncer he lost sight of, but he was back into line next ball.
Finally the bouncer - huge, tattooed, angry - told me I'd better get my friend out of there or he was going to hurt him.
The bouncer stabbed his finger into my chest, as if I, too, was an obnoxious, lightweight drunk: I had come in with that freak and had better get that freak out of here, or we'd both be on the floor, bleeding from the mouths, no kidding.
Igor Kuzyo, a nightclub bouncer from Lviv, received a draft notice last summer.
At a protest against the Miss World competition at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970, she sprayed a bouncer with blue ink from a water pistol.
Even before the wickets started tumbling at The Oval, Geoff Meyhew, sponsorship manager at Cornhill, aimed a bouncer at the England team and cricket establishment when he declared: "We are concerned about the long-term performances of England because it impacts upon audiences and that's effectively what we're buying".
"TBL's can't last forever – they are not a long-term solution and are not the job that police officers sign up to do; they don't want to spend their days being a bouncer at a bottle shop," Labor's spokeswoman for alcohol policy, Natasha Fyles, said.
He confirmed he has had mental turmoil of his own during this series and even this first Ashes century – and his first in Test cricket for almost three years – was far from trouble-free, as he was felled by a Stuart Broad bouncer on 91. Watson needed lengthy treatment but said later: "I got lucky, because it hit me on the muscle, not on the skull.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.02am GMT11 02 8th over: Australia 62-2 (White 43, Bailey 6) Bresnan continues, and he continues to be pretty disciplined and accurate, but Australia twice work the ball between deep square leg and fine leg for a couple, and a too-high bouncer brings a bonus delivery from which another two are scored.
And the night somebody was getting their face kicked in on our road and the bouncer told my friend Alice it wasn't his job to get involved.
