When Robert Peel peed on the pitch and got banished!

But Alison Bottomley, claiming to be a descendent of Peel, ask the great Bill Frindall a question on BBC if he could shed light on the incident.

Bobby Peel was Yorkshireman who played 20 Tests for England between 1884 and 1896. As a left-arm spinner, he hauled in 101 wickets in those 20 Tests at a parsimonious average of 16.98. Though his overall batting average of 14.72 in does not convey much for his abilities with the willow at the Test level, he nevertheless came 17 runs of scoring a Test hundred and had as many as seen hundreds and 49 fifties in First-Class cricket.

But Peel is infamously remembered for being banned from playing for Yorkshire by Lord Hawke after supposedly urinating on the pitch during a Championship game against Lancashire in 1897. That, however, could be an urban legend that has gained in strength with the story repeated over more than a century, though there are no doubts that he was heavily drunk.

But Alison Bottomley, claiming to be a descendent of Peel, ask the great Bill Frindall a question on BBC if he could shed light on the incident. And this is what he had to say, “An exceptionally thirsty man, Peel came on to the field at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, in August 1897 having lunched well. He might have got away with it if he hadn’t urinated on the pitch in front of Lord Hawke who promptly banished him from the Yorkshire XI.”