Oval intruder a Martin Crowe fan

Press, 5 March 1988, Page 1

Oval intruder a Martin Crowe fan

PA Wellington The rules of . international cricket Jean be a little confusing — ask a five-year-old Martin Crowe fan, Victoria Silver, who will tell you all about it. Victoria was a hit with cricket] watchers at the Basin Reserve and on national television when she made an impromptu entrance at the third cricket test between England and New Zealand yesterday. She was a girl with a mission. The New Zealand bats-

man, Mark Greatbatch, had not stopped to say hallo as he made his way back to the stands after being dismissed. Play had stopped. Now was Victoria’s chance to say hallo to Martin Crowe. She was a little upset jwhena woman spectator came on to the field followed, soon after, by her father — looking a little sheepish. . j Victoria’s father, Mr Fred Silver, said his daughter was probably Martin Crowe’s

youngest fan. He said Victoria, whose visit to the Basin Reserve was a birthday treat, had already said hallo to several members of the England team when they had passed through the public area earlier. If Victoria looked perfectly at home on the cricket ground it could be that cricket is in her blood. ! She is a great-grandniece of the former English cricket giant, Sir Jack Hobbs.

Victoria and her parents moved to Wellington from England two months ago. ] Mr Silver said children were not allowed on to] the fiqlds in England, where Victoria had already been to one match. But from watching cricket on television in New Zealand she had seen children running on to the field at] the end of play. “When Greatbatch was out she must have thought this was the time,” Mr Silver said.

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