A Pakistani cricketer is convinced a ghost shook the bed in his Christchurch hotel room and was so shaken he insisted on switching rooms.
All-rounder Haris Sohail, 26, is touring with the Pakistan side for warm-up matches ahead of next month's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand and Australia.
Pakistan team manager Naveed Akram Cheema said Sohail woke up in the night, scared there was a "supernatural presence" in his room at the Rydges Latimer Christchurch, after feeling the bed move.
He rang one of the coaching staff, who arrived to find the player "visibly shaken", Cheema said. Sohail slept that night in the coach's room, before moving to another.
Team management tried to convince Sohail there was no ghostly presence, but to no avail, Cheema said.
"We think it was the fever that caused it [but] the player still believes his bed was shaken by something and it was a supernatural something."
No overnight earthquakes have been recorded in Christchurch since the Pakistan squad arrived in the city.
