DEAF Cricket star Neil Pritchard made the catch of his life when he married fiancee Christine Moore on the banks of Sydney Harbour in Australia.

The couple who married while Neil, 24, was playing in the Deaf World Cricket Cup, met at Preston Deaf Club in 1993.

They tied the knot 12,000 miles from home on board the Bounty - the ship featured in the Mel Gibson film Mutiny on the Bounty.

Christine, 27, who works as a civil servant, said: "It was a beautiful day for our wedding. We had 21 guests with us on the Bounty - plus locals who joined in the celebrations.

"We spent the afternoon on Bondi Beach, paddling in the sea and drinking wine. Then we went for a lovely meal and finished off our most memorable of days with a midnight stroll on the beach."

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