“The Voodoo Duck Inspector’s Report”

Match: 11 / 225

Lost by 5 wkts

Team	Total
FFTMCC	194 - 7
D. Edwards 49, I. Howarth 43
Oxford University Press	195 - 5
J. Hoskins 2 - 41

As an experienced inspector of all things Voodoo, it was my privilege this weekend to inspect a furry duck mascot under the ownership of an Oxfordshire cricket team. They had contacted me some weeks earlier regarding an implausible amount of ducks registered by their players with this mascot sat at pitch-side. It was their suspicion that the duck was somehow cursed, that it was somehow accountable for this flush of ducks (17 in 4 innings to be exact).

The voodoo duck.

As a test, it was decided the mascot would remain hidden from view in the kit-bag of its owner, David Emerson – only being allowed out after the Far from the MCC had concluded their innings. It is now my considered opinion that the player’s assumption may well be correct – that the furry toy is in some way cursed. Suffice to say nobody recorded a duck that day.

There is another train of thought of course, that this team are actually just crap.

‘Voodoo Duck Inspector’