Incident:
A year after the 1975 ICC World Cup, now famous ICC ex-umpire Dickie Bird was on a bus in South London when the conductor walked up to him wearing a very familiar white hat. Bird asked where he got it from. "Man, haven't you heard of Mr Dickie Bird," he replied. "This is one of his hats. I took it off his head at the World Cup final ... we all ran onto the field and I won the race."
Prelude:
1975 World Cup final between Australia and West Indies. Last wicket to go and 26 needed of two final overs of match for Australia to get the first ever ICC prize and stamp their supremacy on the short format of the game. Crowds were that time were allowed to be around the boundary on grass/ground and occasionally ran within field too.
Second ball in the penultimate over when 24 were needed, Vanburn Holder bowled a no-ball but got Thomson caught by Roy Fredericks at extra cover. That was the mayhem moment 1 of the day. The spectators thought Windies won the match without realising that no-ball had been called. And it was at that instant the bus conductor who was one of the spectators raced up to the umpire to rip his hat off his head.
This was not the end to the ripping guns. When the match was eventually over three balls later another invasion took place and this time some of the players failed to beat the mob to safety. Thomson lost his pads, while Boyce was brought down on the floor and had his boots ripped off before he the police could ct savior. Though he was a dat bit smarter than the umpire. Fielding at the long leg, the furthest corner of the ground from pavilion, he had anticipated the situation and so replaced his new boots with old ones at tea break.
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