101 Weird Cricket Happenings, No 1: county cricketer is Travolta'd by son

A more stoical (or ugly) county cricketer than Derbyshire's Graeme Welch (right: Getty) you could not find.  Welch is the archetypal county professional: enthusiastic, dedicated, ever diligent in the face of yet another Derbyshire loss; Welsh was Close-like in his endurance and was very rarely injured, at least not on the cricket pitch.  Dancing with his son, however, was a completely different matter.

Getting a touch of the Saturday Night Fever about him in 2004, Welch's son was giving it the full Stayin' Alive upwards finger thrust dance when he jabbed Pop straight in the eye, thus robbing Derbys of one of their most reliable performers for 3 matches.  Could have been worse I suppose, rather than dancing they might have tried mimicking the film's tragic scene on the Brooklyn Bridge.  Small mercies and all that.  [Lee C]