At approximately 11:30am local time (0600 GMT) yesterday, a rogue group of monkeys jumped into Panadura Power Station, Sri Lanka where one of them caused the blackout.
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Cowan, who scored 1001 Test runs across 18 matches for Australia had previously joked that Steve Smith's side's trip to the UAE prior to their tour of Sri Lanka was merely a 'golf trip'.
It comes just days after the Baggy Greens captain announced that he and his partner Becky announced the arrival of their baby girl, Edi.
The outage is yet to be fully fixed meaning hospitals and other buildings are having to use generators.
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