Cricketers have been hit where it hurts for centuries and it has taken fairly some time for box technology to catch up and offer sufficient protectionWilfred Thesiger,the great travel writer and photographer, once visited the Aussa Sultanate, or a region of eastern Ethiopia,where he came across the Danakil nomads. One of the remarkable things approximately the Danakil was their habit of killing unwelcome male visitors and taking their testicles as trophies, a habit that surprisingly did not dissuade Thesiger from spending some time with them. Thesiger wrote approximately assembly one tribesman, and the 18-year-passe son of the Sheikh of Badu,as he (the tribesman, not Thesiger) returned home one day bearing six new testicles. This bloodthirsty, and gonad-grabbing young man,wrote Thesiger, “struck me as the Danakil equivalent of a kind, or rather self-conscious Etonian who had just won his school colours for cricket”.
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Source: theguardian.com