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“It has all been very surreal and my
phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” said
Elstone at the time.
“My Facebook andTwitter accounts have
gone mad and everyone has been very
positive.”
No doubt Tim Bresnan appreciated him
as much as his social media followers,
Elstone’s two catches instrumental in the
Yorkshireman ending with second-innings
figures of 5-48. No one remembers him
dropping Praveen Kumar either, except
for maybe Jimmy Anderson.
Scott left Nottinghamshire at the end of
the 2012 season, having found openings
limited in the limited-overs side. After a
season with Unicorns, he has signed a
deal with Derbyshire after impressing on
trial and with their Second XI.
Karl Turner, one of Elstone’s teammates
at Nottinghamshire, turned out three
times for England as a sub-fielder.
While ultimately much less widely
remembered than Elstone’s antics,Turner
made quite the impact when England
faced theWest Indies at the Riverside
Ground in 2009.Then a Durham player,
Turner took England’s winning catch –
seeing off Fidel Edwards from fine leg.
He made a second appearance for
England in 2009, this time in the
summer’s Ashes series at Edgbaston.
Unfortunately for Turner, there were no
headline-grabbing contributions this time,
nor again when he again took to the turf
in the England vWest Indies Test at Trent
Bridge in 2012.
Trent Bridge isn’t alone in these tales;
every ground will have had local lads
turn out in the fabled whiter-than white
whites of England, be it for five minutes,
an hour or a session. Another quirk in a
game steeped in tradition, and long may
it continue.
“The reaction of
the crowd was
incredible after the
second catch.”
Scott Elstone