When Michael Vaughan and Jonathan Agnew almost went behind the bars

Former England cricketers Michael Vaughan and Jonathan Agnew were asked to shell out money by a corrupt police officer.

Former England cricketers Michael Vaughan and Jonathan Agnew, who are currently in South Africa were asked to shell out money by a corrupt police officer. Both of them are currently working with Test Match Special and British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) as commentators. It happened on Friday night when Vaughan and Agnew were going back to their hotel in their rented car along with Henry Blofeld and Simon Mann at the back seat.

As per Vaughan, Agnew was driving the car and was asked to give 40 pounds as he was not carrying his driving license. “All of a sudden we got pulled in for no apparent reason. He [police officer] was taking Aggers [Agnew] to the cop shop! He said: ‘Right, empty your pockets, give me your money, what have you got?’ We were all emptying our pockets. I had to give him an English tenner. It was dangerous territory for us all”, Vaughan told to Daily Mail Speaking with BBC Five.

The former England captain had almost got the feeling of Agnew spending the night in jail and added, “I had to do it without the policeman seeing. He was an angry man – he didn’t like me at all. At one brief moment I thought Mr Agnew was going to be spending the night behind bars. We might have had to start the Free Jonathan Agnew campaign. It was a hairy moment.  The best bit about it is that once he’d said, ‘Empty your pockets’, the officer then said, ‘How’s the cricket going then? Who’s winning? Did South Africa have the better day?’ I said: We’re off. I’m not hanging around.”