We often hear of ‘ Nelson’s eye’ when the score is 111. I used
to wonder as this information relating to Nelson is incorrect. I
searched the net and found the answer which states that Cricket
is continuing with this wrong information as people are imbued
with Superstition about 111. “However, to English batsmen,
Nelson means a score of 111 and is the unluckiest number in the
game. The superstitious custom is to remove one or both feet
from the ground until the score has moved on. Why 111? The term
was invented in the belief that Lord Nelson was unlucky enough
to have had only one eye, one arm and one leg. Nelson wasn’t
quite this unfortunate as he actually had two legs, but the
cricket term has survived all attempts by historians to correct
it. The expression has been around for several hundred years,
and it has the same meaning as ‘turn a blind eye’ to something.
When you turn a blind eye to a problem, you choose to
deliberately ignore it; you pretend the problem does not exist.
*How can Gautam turn a Nelson