On Friday July 2 Adelaide is hosting a celebrity roast to farewell Australia's most famous groundsman Les Burdett, on the "hallowed turf of Adelaide Oval". While a very popular cricket identity, Les is not popular in the Roff family because he prepared (some say over-watered) the ground where Joe Roff ended his international rugby career during the bloodbath which was the Pacific Islands -v- Australia rugby match. Completely out of the play, Joe ran from a dry patch of ground into a wet one, wrenched his knee and the rest is history. In the same match Clyde Rathbone copped so many head high tackles he could hear the bells of Adelaide Cathedral ringing in his ears for weeks afterwards. Sadly that game probably ended his international career as well but we can't blame Les for that one. Joe, there's a bed at our place if you want to attend the roast. As the ad says: "Join Ian Chappell, Rod Marsh, Darren 'Boof' Lehmann and Wayne 'Flipper' Phillips as we farewell a local legend."
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