News about Alex Blackwell

Cricket players face various dangers, but defending an aggressive bird is not usually one of them. However, the Sheffield Shield match between Tasmania and Queensland was postponed for a brief period of time due to the same cause.

It was the third time Jess Jonassen, a former cricketer who married long-term partner Sarah Wearn in a spectacular Hawaii wedding ceremony, was forced to call it off twice due to the Covid pandemic. Wearn was married on the Hawaiian island of Waikiki by the six-time World Cup champion and Commonwealth Games gold medalist who has represented Australia an astonishing 192 times. The pair have been together for just under 11 years, and they became engaged in 2018 after Jonassen fell on one knee next to the Brisbane River, but the global pandemic has delayed marriage plans.

On Tuesday night, cricketers faced frightening scenes as a pair of enraged birds spooked players who had been left ducking for cover at a WBBL match. In somewhat gruesome scenes for onlookers, two plover parents, a notoriously cranky species of bird, set up camp on the infield of the Hobart Hurricanes' 49-run victory over the Sydney Thunder.