Little Wylmondsbury were playing Old Berkonians in the local village cricket cup final, a real grudge match. Minutes before the start of play the LW skipper was stressing, because he was a player short, and the competition rules stated a full XI was required for the game to go on.
A horse turned up, and said "are you playing cricket? Can I play? I can play cricket?" Desperate, the LW captain agreed, and the OB captain was only too happy to allow the newcomer to make up the numbers.
OB batted first, and batted well. Stuck out at on the boundary, the horse did little to help, and a commanding total of 274 was set from the allotted 40 overs.
LW began their reply, and whilst the runs came, wickets also fell. The LW skipper was still batting when in the last ball of the 39th over the ninth wicket fell, caught, and as the batsmen had crossed, it meant the horse would have to come to the crease to face the final over, with 32 runs required for an unlikely victory.
The OB captain had left his fastest most brutal bowler for the final over. The horse walked in, took his guard and awaited his first ball. Which he hit clean over the bowler's head for a six! The bowler shook his head and steamed in again for the second ball of the final over... Which also went for six! As did the third, fourth and fifth ball!
Now, with only two runs required for what had seemed an unlikely victory, everyone's breath was held as the bowlet steamed in and the horse... tried to smash it out of the park, but bottom edged it instead! It skipped through the slips, and whilst it wasn't going to reach the boundary, would surely be enough for the win?
"Run!" shouted the LW captain as he sprinted for the other end. But as he got there, the horse was stood still. "C'mon, run to the other end, then back, we can win this", shouted the skipper. But the horse just stood there.
The OB field eventually gathered the ball, and returned it to the empty end, where they smashed the stumps and rejoiced in their victory.
Fuming the LW captain turned to the horse and said "why the fuck didn't you run, we could have won that?"
To which the horse replied "IF I COULD FUCKING RUN, DO YOU THINK I WOULD BE PLAYING FUCKINIG CRICKET..?"