The Australia-West Indies Test is nicely poised on a knife edge with Australia 254 ahead on Day 3, the second day had some amusement for the sprinkling of spectators at Grenada. Dog stopped play for 2 minutes as the bemused Aussies failed to shoo it away until technology was deployed as a scare.
Josh Hazlewood had just taken the 4th West Indian wicket in the 33rd over with score reading 124/4 when a dog happily sauntered onto the field, and parked itself at deep cover.
According to cricket.co.au blog scribbler, “There is dog on the field! The black canine has taken it upon himself to plug the gap at deep cover. He’s stubborn too, the Aussie players’ efforts to remove him from the arena weren’t successful so the broadcaster has called in their drone to chase him away!”
Actually, Pat Cummins and Hazlewood bowling at that point had attempted warily to shoo it away, even as experts noted that it was very unprofessional of him to walk in like that, to disturb a Test match and make it look like a club game.
A brief intrusion by a furry friend 😅
WI 124/4 (33) #WIvAUS | #FullAhEnergy pic.twitter.com/mZpN0PcGnS
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket) July 4, 2025
Nevertheless, with the hapless star cricketers unable to drive him out, broadcasters stepped in, using a drone to chase after it. The hovering drone coming after it, and chattering away scared the hell out of the poor dog and it finally left the field.
The West Indies board account tweeted it was just a furry friend dropping in. He proved lucky as well as Windies stitched their longest partnership between Brandon King and Shai Hope for 58 runs. West Indies reached 253 in response to Australia’s 286 in first innings.
Hazlewood, still bemused after the dog delay, bowled to Brandon King who crunched him for a six over square leg two balls later. He had started upbeat getting the breakthrough after lunch in the form of skipper Roston Chase hitting him on the front pad, as Cummins had pressed for a review on the Nelson score.
But it can safely be said that West Indies has invented drone tech to shoo away dogs who stumble into cricket, and pay no heed to Messrs Cummins, Hazlewood beseeching them to go away.
