Cricketer. Writer. Nobel Laureate. Samuel Beckett’s story is pure class.

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00:00Can a cricketer get a Nobel Prize?

00:02The answer is yes, and this is one time in the history of cricket.

00:06This dates way back to 1925 when a left-arm passer and a left-handed batter named Samuel Bucket

00:14had played two first-class games in 1925-1926.

00:18You know, he played against Northamshire and he played for Dublin University.

00:22He did not give a lot of yields with the bat or with the ball,

00:25but he etched history in gold when he actually, you know, played cricket and eventually he had won the Nobel Prize.

00:32In 1969, Samuel Bucket had the Nobel Prize for his work in literature for his innovative plays in the Theatre of Absurd.

00:41His famous play, that is Waiting for Godot, is a symbol of his greatness when it comes to writing.

00:47Bucket has never gone for cricket.

00:50You know, when he used in writing pauses or anticipation, it reminded people of his bowling.

00:58Because you need pauses, you need timing and you need anticipation when you're bowling as well.

01:02You let me know your views in the comment section below,

01:04but this is the only instance where a cricketer has won a Nobel Prize.