There wasn't much venom in the pitch at Lahore where India and Pakistan have just played a high scoring draw which will keep the statisticians busy for many a day.
Herpetology and cricket aren't often linked but occasionally the two come together. In 2000 play in the Tamil Nadu - Punjab match at the M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai/ Madras (where tests are played) was interrupted by a snake in the outfield. The incident was mentioned in Wisden 2001 at p1395 and by The Hindu which reported, in a manner reflecting the Indian veneration of snakes, that the reptile "had to be guided out of the ground".
More recently in rural Victoria, as the Herald Sun reports "a deadly brown snake turned out to a be a lucky charm for a teenage cricket star". The young man in question took a hat trick two days after being bitten by the snake. The report doesn't state what happened to the snake: presumably it wasn't "guided out of the ground".
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