Alive to play another day

By Adam Entoos

Afghanistan (Rueters) - A search in the Southern mountains of Afghanistan for a crashed aeroplane carrying a group of Australian cricket players has ended on a happy note despite the search attempt having no success.

Two Afghanistani children playing with a two band radio set reported hearing a funny language. Their school teacher who was fluent in English confirmed it was indeed a funny language and identified it to Australian of origin albeit slurred and accompanied with much giggling, burping, and fart jokes. The teacher and his two industrious students were able to ascertain that it was infact the survivors of the recent plane crash, who were, apart from each having severe headaches and nausea, alive and well.

Rescuers were able to track the radio signal and upon arriving at the wreckage, found the industrious and plucky Australians had rigged a transmitter using nothing more than beverage cans, shoe laces and the bails from a set of cricket stumps. Witnesses confirmed that while they waited for rescue, they had also constructed a DIY kidney transplant machine. Experts beleive that the ingenuity of the Australians was the only reason they survived the carnage of the plane wreck and prior to that a five day drinking binge.

This reporter was able to interview the captian of the cricket team (who also captioned the plane) and after asking what they planned to do now, was advised they still planned on not only competing in their cricket game tomorrow night (Thursday night Australian) but armed with this ordeal go on to win the entire competition. I also asked the Captain how he found the time to Captain cricket, manage his portfolio of assets and learn to fly and he responded "learn to fly"?