Australian cricketer Peter Handscomb has had a fear of horses since his childhood and he has chosen the lockdown to get rid of the fear by riding them. His wife is an event rider who has four horses.
The 28-year-old told Victorian reporters in a video, “My wife has four horses. And in seven years, I’ve refused to get on them out of sheer (being) scared of the size of them and all of that.”
“So the other day I actually decided, ‘Right, it’s time.’ So I jumped on a horse, we basically just went for a little walk and it was delightful,” he added.
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He has also been doing chores like cleaning the house and gardening to keep himself entertained at home. He cleaned his cricket room (or as his wife likes to call it ‘the crap room’) and killed half of the grass trying to grow.
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“In something to do to pass some time, I did a massive spring clean and basically cleaned out my cricket room, or ‘the crap room’ as my wife calls it. So I had to pack up a lot of stuff there. That’s all in the garage, I’m not entirely sure where it all is. I tried to grow my grass out of the backyard to be absolutely perfect, but in doing that, I killed about half of it. So, I’ve got to work on that a little bit, that’s been keeping me entertained,” he said.
The batsman also spoke how unsure everything is ahead not just for cricketers but for everybody and nobody is sure how long the Coronavirus pandemic will last.
He said, “It’s unprecedented times with this pandemic. There’s just a lot of unknown at the moment, which can be scary for everyone. It’s not just cricketers, it’s everyone around the world concerned about their jobs and where they’re going to be in a week, two weeks or a month.”
(With inputs from Reuters)
