A great sense of humour

Matt Richens in The Press reports:

Tess O’Rourke was not a cricket fan before Sunday – and she certainly isn’t now.

But the 18-year-old still has her sense of humour despite being taken to hospital just minutes after arriving at the Canterbury Wizards’ Twenty20 game against the Auckland Aces on Sunday at QEII Park, where she was hit in the face by a Colin de Grandhomme six.

“I wasn’t watching. I had my face turned to the side, then bang.”

Her nose was broken in at least two places and she spent seven hours at Christchurch Hospital. She needed 12 stitches.

Ouch, ouch, ouch. A cricket ball to the face is just simply nasty.

She would go back to another cricket game only if she was in a corporate box. The Press contacted the Canterbury Cricket Association, which will invite O’Rourke to this Sunday’s game as its guest – in a corporate box.

They should give her a reasons pass for the box!

Asked if she had a message for de Grandhomme, O’Rourke cheekily said her younger brother Matt was keen on a cricket helmet for Christmas if he had a spare.

“I can only laugh now, but it hurt like a bitch at the time,” she said.

“My friends said if it was to happen to anyone, it would happen to me. I think it’s because I’m small and ginger.”

Now that’s a great sense of humour uder fire.