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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Buzz on February 29, 2012, 05:09:01 PM
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Given a comment elsewhere on the basis that sharing a problem is the first step to overcoming it (yup that's right - self help now available on the CBF)
What to people say to you that frequently disturbs your concentration enough for you to give your wicket away.
this can be a comment, or in a case that I have experiences, not speaking to a batsman (nice guy, wouldn't stop gassing, and he was getting runs - so the wicket keeper and I stopped talking and remained silent - he was out after an over of the "cold shoulder" and asked why we stopped talking to him in the bar afterwards!!)
or when a ball is thrown at you.
In my case I get really irritated if, after one of my usual early play and misses some bright spark shoulds - "here we go, here for a good time, not a long time" grrr I can feel my blood boil as I type this!!
what puts you off!!???
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Well you wouldn't like playing against me and simmy. We say that all the time early on in an innings lol.
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Old clubs umpire farting all the time would put me off
Other than that not much
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I had a bad year last year with the bat, a few innings it was consistently 3-4 balls and i was out...so then when i finally started to stick in the guys behind the stump started counting the balls and keeping me informed of how many i had played and taken away from the next inning, boy did that really get to me...i stay calm/cool on the field even though i was feeling the pressure...
another thing that happened around the same time was ppl starting point out that i had more bats than the runs i was scoring or the balls i was playing each inning...anyways have since then buckled down and hoping to do some damage this year with bat and to their heads when i am bowling...
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another thing that happened around the same time was ppl starting point out that i had more bats than the runs i was scoring or the balls i was playing each inning...
Petehosk gets to laugh off that statement... most people can score about 150 in fewer balls than the number of bats he has :o :o :D !
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Last season I was batting as a tail ender in a match. First ball I get a quick beamer to my face and I have to duck I get up to find the bowler staring me out and he said " I will give you two options I will either break your face with more beamers or you can do the decent thing and get out" Made me so angry that I tried to demolish his next ball that was a slower ball and it ended up hiting middle stump. Never been so mad!
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Petehosk gets to laugh off that statement... most people can score about 150 in fewer balls than the number of bats he has :o :o :D !
Haha its an interesting problem to have isn't it :), I am not Hosk's level and got guilted into getting rid almost all my gear, lot of my own team mates used to point to that... i think they all had ulterior motives considering they snapped my bats quickly..
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I dont really get put off by sledging apart from the funny stuff in sunday cricket, its hard to bat well when your laughing
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I fall into the other category with this as I'm the annoying arsehole at cover or under the lid that never shuts up. I will keep at a batsmen until he bites then just drop it after laughing at them of course :D strangely enough I don't get a lot of grief when I bat
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''big shot coming'', ''pressure on this guy'', or the one that gets on my nerves for some real unknown reason is ''im backing my bowler here''.
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Gone fishing really grinds my teeth
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"big shots coming" i here that all time
then boooooom it usually does haha
for me its not really what they say its who says it
ill take some stick of cricketers but nowt worse than getting some abuse of some young kid who is a nobody
like last year in the cup. i went into bat and there young keeper says to me"was your keeper away today?"
i was like a. you play div2 b, i dunno who u are c, check the league website lad ull see my name lol
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"big shots coming" i here that all time
then boooooom it usually does haha
for me its not really what they say its who says it
ill take some stick of cricketers but nowt worse than getting some abuse of some young kid who is a nobody
like last year in the cup. i went into bat and there young keeper says to me"was your keeper away today?"
i was like a. you play div2 b, i dunno who u are c, check the league website lad ull see my name lol
I agree totally, even worse when the person giving the mouth is someone who got nothing with the bat or provided some 'buffet' bowling. They are normally the ones who give send off's.
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I don't think my batting gets affected by what people say? Mostly it's myself that affects my batting, get angry with myself, lose my concentration and usually get out.
It's mainly just friendly banter with the opposition, had one last year where the bowler got one to jag back and cut me in half. I smiled and he did the fidel Edwards hand in front of face thing, next back I smashed a four through cover, didn't run just looked at him, smiled and said 'I saw that one!'
You do of course get the odd dickhead. Got really angry last season, in the first over there was an appeal for caught behind against me, I usually walk but was unsure I'd hit it. The finger went up and I walked off without querying it. Their keeper then ran up to me and called me a cheat, right in my face. That guy really does have some issues though, he played in a charity 6 a side tournament in memory for one of our old coaches and players. He got out to a rather rubbish bowler and threw hit bat down and shouted at himself, everyone else laughed at him!
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For no apparent reason 'join the dots up' after 5 dot balls always annoys me.
The one I had last year which made me laugh was 'seatbelts on, this one can't drive'.
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big problem for me when the opposition cross the line with their chat, i can handle the normal 'banter', but when it is taken too far i cant seem to resist getting wound up and losing focus on what i am trying to achieve in the specific situation.
so, this season i am going to (secretly!) study from a guy at our club who thrives on this sort of thing (as not to reveal the cricket obsessed maniac that i am). he has a reputation for playing big, big innings in ill tempered games, if i notice anything about his approach i will pass it on to you lot. from previous observations, he likes to give as good as he gets, both with his mouth and, more importantly, with his bat.
right now (pre-study) i think its more the strong character and mental strength of this person, combined with a natural ability for batting and a craving for competition which stimulates him in these situations.
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Our opening bat thrives on people giving him stick. In one heated game a few years ago the bowler called him a **** - we need 80 to win, and he knocked 70 of them in the space of about 10 overs.
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Last season I was batting as a tail ender in a match. First ball I get a quick beamer to my face and I have to duck I get up to find the bowler staring me out and he said " I will give you two options I will either break your face with more beamers or you can do the decent thing and get out" Made me so angry that I tried to demolish his next ball that was a slower ball and it ended up hiting middle stump. Never been so mad!
"Excuse me umpire, I believe there are rules against that sort of thing" is a good way to wind the bowler back up.
Generally I'm not overly bothered about what people say as I'm down the order. I have been known to accidentally swat the odd cocky keeper with an exaggerated back swing when attempting to flay a wide ball though... :-[
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or you could just put bat under his chin and say u wat pal? lol
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I seem to get a lot of stick when I'm bowling, last year I just brushed it off with a wink or blowing the batsman a kiss, that seemed to wind them up! Just cannot resist it at times. When I'm batting, I don't really care, Although I've had the keeper shout to the bowler some stuff suggesting he wants the bowler to break one of my bones, which is fun!
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or you could just put bat under his chin and say u wat pal? lol
My thoughts exactly ;) lol
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Read a great one in book of cricket sledging:
a keeper used to ask the batsman if he breathed out or in as he hit the ball.
batsman would then think about this rather than shot playing.
I am now in love with "seat belts on lads, this one can't drive"
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Read a great one in book of cricket sledging:
a keeper used to ask the batsman if he breathed out or in as he hit the ball.
batsman would then think about this rather than shot playing.
I am now in love with "seat belts on lads, this one can't drive"
Those ones are normally class, just little stuff like "hang on, you had a trigger movement a minute ago, where's it gone?!" and stuff like that. Psychological stuff, that makes you think, absolutely killer!
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Didn't particular annoy me but I once heard someone say "he's got more defence than north Korea". Did make me giggle
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Nothing really puts me off, I love the banter. If comments are putting u off then u need to just smile otherwise they have won the battle. I give loads of stick when fielding but it's got be be original . I would be embarrassed if a teammate said " fasten your seatbelts". Shut up lad & leave the sledging to me.
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"Read a great one in book of cricket sledging:
a keeper used to ask the batsman if he breathed out or in as he hit the ball.
batsman would then think about this rather than shot playing."
Love this idea, I'm so gonna try this in the coming season!
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Read a great one in book of cricket sledging:
a keeper used to ask the batsman if he breathed out or in as he hit the ball.
batsman would then think about this rather than shot playing.
I am now in love with "seat belts on lads, this one can't drive"
Do you blink when you hit the ball?
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Can't think of a specific time when opponent talked me out, but I'm sure they have sometimes. I quite enjoy blanking the bowler who's trying to wind me up. Often wander towards them doing some gardening and making out I'm oblivious to their verbals.
The biggest sledging problems I've had was from a fellow team mate. My Sunday village side has a weak batting line up and me and one other player usually need to score the bulk of the runs. One particular player would sledge you throughout your innings from the boundary. If you played out 3 dot balls or failed to hit a boundary every over he'd shout "Test match, get a move on!" This would get me out as I'd end up attacking from ball 1. My Saturday team always said I needed to play myself in more. He'd go out smack a few quick boundaries, then get out and thinking his job was done.
He left a few seasons ago and the club is now a much happier team. The first season he didn't play I score ten 50's and 1 hundred in 16 games. Shows what effect sledging can have on your confidence.
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The Mark Boucher one is great and seems to really get to some people...
'What are you averaging this year mate, 9-10, no more than that surely. Top score 20?' Keep on mentioning how the pressure is mounting as they get to 20, 'don't chuck it now' 'we'll all clap you if you get past it'.... and see the steam rise!
One memorable match, their last man comes out needing 1 to win off 1 ball. The lad a talented leggie hasn't bowled and so hasn't done anything so far. He's also a young lad and obviously nervous coming out to face the last ball....
'Mate you've done nothing so far, don't let your team down now and lose the match on the last ball - they'll tell you it doesn't matter, but we all know iof you get out you've lost the match for them' and so on. Fair play he gets a single and ties the match...
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Most sledgers are losers.
Play hard and play fair.
Enjoy the great game!
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I love opening, as the person I open with is a long-time mate, and we spend all of our innings taking the piss out of each other whenever we miss a shot or anything - makes it relaxed and funny, not all serious and tight.
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One memorable Sunday match, turned up just to have a walk around the ground (playing away) and one of our guys doesn't show. End up playing and borrowing kit. Not fussed about batting so go in at I think 7 after around 30 overs and play and miss at the first couple. Bowler announces loudly 'We're through to the tail, this bloke doesn't know which end of the bat to hold' and so on.
Hmmmm, the bowler is wearing trainers and I think to myself - we've never played these guys before, they don't know me, and the boundary straight is an easy miss-timed six away. There's no way I'm going to be sledged by a guy in trainers. So I stand a yard outside the crease and walk down the track every ball.
End up scoring a century in 42 balls, last 50 in 13 balls. Fastest in the clubs history.
Thanks for motivating me.
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On that track, we played a game last year and our captain was on holiday so a Veteran was called up who had not played for 6 years and had never seen me play. Obviously didn't like the look of me, so threw me in at no. 9. After everyone scoring a duck apart from him, we were on 39-8 after 17 overs. I came in and blocked my way to 11 and finally got bowled in the 46th over whereupon the next man in got a duck also.
Was great when I was just in, as they went on at our captain for next 10 overs telling him how he'd got the order wrong, until they got frustrated and started moaning.
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The Mark Boucher one is great and seems to really get to some people...
'What are you averaging this year mate, 9-10, no more than that surely. Top score 20?' Keep on mentioning how the pressure is mounting as they get to 20, 'don't chuck it now' 'we'll all clap you if you get past it'.... and see the steam rise!
One memorable match, their last man comes out needing 1 to win off 1 ball. The lad a talented leggie hasn't bowled and so hasn't done anything so far. He's also a young lad and obviously nervous coming out to face the last ball....
'Mate you've done nothing so far, don't let your team down now and lose the match on the last ball - they'll tell you it doesn't matter, but we all know iof you get out you've lost the match for them' and so on. Fair play he gets a single and ties the match...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6bpAlgDL0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6bpAlgDL0)
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I love opening, as the person I open with is a long-time mate, and we spend all of our innings taking the piss out of each other whenever we miss a shot or anything - makes it relaxed and funny, not all serious and tight.
^^^^ thats pretty much how we roll lol
specially if i was batting with liam or ryan lol
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The "One shot wonder" always gets me and its usually right.
But in one case it turned into a 2 and 3 shot wonder. Safe to say didnt last much longer than that. Slogger is not the way to go.
"Mind the windows Tinio"
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I think the benefit of ‘chat’ in the field is two fold.
For me the main aim is to keep everyone buzzing and maintain that feeling of being on top of the batsmen as a team. For this purpose any ‘noise’ works really.
As far as true sledging – its effect varies massively from batter to batter. For most guys if you can apply more pressure with the occasional comment to your teammates then why not.
I always think if you can get the batsman to address you before you address them directly then that’s the first part of the battle won – they’re thinking about you and not their batting.
Hitting the nerve can be important – if a batsman has scored quickly in the past against you but is now looking for a draw from an early stage then you might do well to mention the fact that he looked so good last time he came and he must be battling with his form now (or whatever).
As always, there are exceptions to the rule. There are certain batsmen that you do not sledge. You generally learn these as they get more determined the more you talk and smash a ton!
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We had one game last season where it was a bit different.
We were in the field and the two batsman were set. Our bowler was a navy lad who was welsh, word went around the field that after every ball instead of saying " well bowled mate " instead we would "Baa Baa " Every ball the "Baa Baa " would come and you could see the steam starting to rise in him, but the batsmen were begining to chuckle and lose concentration, even the umpires were having a little chuckle. last ball of the over, stumps everywhere clean bowled and we all rolled around laughing. He then saw the funny side.
Great laugh
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One game that pee'd me right off last year was after a played a couple of cut shots for four, their skipper from first slip said 'He's got plenty on the back foot boys but i've seen nothing on the front foot'. For some reason this made me angry and two balls later I spooned one to mid-on trying to drive a ball on the up >:(
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as above lol
i allways try prove them wrong lol
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When walking at number 3, and being completely stumped by a ball that seamed a mile, the bowler (year older than me and plays for Wiltshire) tells me I can't bat, just made me even more determined. That after I walked off the ground with 86 to my name. Best thing was he got run out with out scoring I think, we won the game easily. And after he refused to shake my hand. I call that a win!
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Best way to piss a bowler of when batting.. when he sledges you i enjoy a smile and a wave.. and just keep smiling and waving until he turns round.. they soon stop
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I played for a team as a youngster, I was in my teens and the rest were all 30-50 years old and after being dropped quite a few times over a few seasons for the captains mates to play there 1 game of the season I got annoyed. So I decided to go and play for the team I was playing for on a Sunday, on Saturdays also. The next season we played them, the first game was close but we got beat which they all thoroughly enjoyed reminding me about.
During the sane season they were short for a 20/20 match one night and asked of I'd play which I duly obliged. I came in a 9-4 in the 7th over after the a couple of the 'captains mates' had got out cheaply. I ended up 76 not out which at that point was my highest ever score and we won the match. I enjoyed my little victory in showing them that I shouldn't have been dropped but kept it quiet.
We played each other again in the return fixture in the league and we got trounced much to their amusement, again I took all the banter but gave nothing. Then the last game of the season came around and it was the cup final against you know who!
We posted a decent score I was run out (has happened 4 times in finals!!??) for a few, but we were happy with our score. There innings started well until I was lying on my back looking at the ball in my hand with our WK looking over me in utter amazement. I had taken a blinding slip catch but I kept my celebrations to a minimum. A few over later a ball goes down the legside and beats our keeper do I set off after it. I hear the batsman shout for 2 as 'it's only Kenny you know how slow he is!' I produced the best throw ever and got a direct hit with him being short by inches, clearly not as slow as he thought.
A few wickets fell but the target was getting lower when my skipper tossed me the ball for the first time all season and told me to bowl. First over I picked up a streaky wicket to be fair but again didn't really celebrate to much. A few over later and I was bowling against my old skipper and had warned my keeper that I'd thrown one fast down the legside. Sure enough he charged down the wicket I fizzed it down leg and had him stumped of a wide. Victory was now in sight so the celebrations bubbled up more than previously.
Not long later I took the catch in the deep that won us the game and the cup. I made sure I enjoyed that catch and made sure they knew it. To be fair I got on really well with all my old team mates and had a great night with everyone. I ended up returning to play for them a few years later when I would come back from uni but I made sure they were frequently reminded of the day I got 5 of them out!
Sorry for the reminiscing but it's a great example of actions speaking louder than words!
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Nothing really bothers me unless I personally get insulted without reason. I got called a c**t after getting out and walking back because I hit the bowler for successive boundaries.
Also played Byo's lot a couple of seasons ago and at the end of the over some twattish kid kicked the ball which hit me in the grille, that annoyed me a great deal.
When I'm a fielder I'm very annoying as I'm sure Tom or Byo could confirm haha
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Also played Byo's lot a couple of seasons ago and at the end of the over some twattish kid kicked the ball which hit me in the grille, that annoyed me a great deal.
When I'm a fielder I'm very annoying as I'm sure Tom or Byo could confirm haha
Got to admit I found that quite amusing!! :D
Not much winds me up, just smile and get on with it - the bowler always has another ball, although when I was bowling last year I got smashed for a 6 and the batsman said I was the worst spinner he ever faced. Got him out the next ball which was highly amusing - just smiled at him as he walked past!!!
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Have to say one guy on my own team winds me up. Byo hit him for a straight six and he was giving it "ooooohhh" as if he was close to getting him out haha
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Have to say one guy on my own team winds me up. Byo hit him for a straight six and he was giving it "ooooohhh" as if he was close to getting him out haha
Nothing worse than the internal facepalmery when your own team-mate is being a dick!
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Hit the nail on the head haha. He's a good guy, and we've just learned to accept it and laugh it off but sometimes you can't help it
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Got to admit I found that quite amusing!! :D
Not much winds me up, just smile and get on with it - the bowler always has another ball, although when I was bowling last year I got smashed for a 6 and the batsman said I was the worst spinner he ever faced. Got him out the next ball which was highly amusing - just smiled at him as he walked past!!!
tbh tho its allways the bad bowlers that get u out haha :P
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Sledging is a common tactics used in all level of crickets to try and unsettle a batsman. A bit is fun but sometimes it is just out of hand. As a batsman I normally remains focused and don't bother with what they come out with. Once they realise you don't care I have seen it decrease drastically. It gets to me when one player from you own team try and make a fool out of himself by sledging a batsman ( Comment is : Go to the Gym) when he just hit a boundary. You cant reason with stupidity.
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Have to say one guy on my own team winds me up. Byo hit him for a straight six and he was giving it "ooooohhh" as if he was close to getting him out haha
Only thing it was close to was the next county!! :D
tbh tho its allways the bad bowlers that get u out haha :P
No comment Simmy!!
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Enjoying reading some of these stories! Got to love the banter though sometimes... The funniest line I heard off a bowler last season was after I hit him for back to back boundaries was 'I can tell you don't want to do much running today you fat f**king pr*ck'. To which I replied, 'I'll carry on hitting you for four then shall I?' Next ball, straight drive down the ground for four! I was wetting myself, cricket wouldn't be half as fun without banter/sledging!
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in an under 15s match a few years ago i turned up late to a 20/20 game after coming back from a French exchange, i was brought onto bowl as soon as i came onto the field, having spent 8 hours on a coach i was quite stiff and my first over went for 12 and when i came back for my second over their opening batsmen was telling the new man in "dont worry this bowlers shyte" 3 overs later with figures of 6-16 i asked him just how shyte i was. :)
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I like to join in with the fielders when they're sledging me, and then as soon as the ball is back in the bowlers hand the focus goes back onto that. I find it helps with my concentration rather than staying in a "bubble" for the whole innings, not that mine last too long!
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Can't quite remember the circumstances other than it was a tight game, with a few comments that had created an 'atmosphere'.
This all changed when a new bat came in and proclaimed 'I like to face bowling like I like my women...... short and slow'.
The game seemed to get a little bit less tense after that.
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I'm normally one of the people saying things to put the batsman off in th field rather than being sledged at myself.
But as a bowler you can't beat a glare after a long follow through after a batsman has had a swipe and missed. No words need to be spoken ;)
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I'm normally one of the people saying things to put the batsman off in th field rather than being sledged at myself.
But as a bowler you can't beat a glare after a long follow through after a batsman has had a swipe and missed. No words need to be spoken ;)
then ball after when he puts u for six over your head and u walk down right infront of him and do a bit of gardening?
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I think it's got to be getting heckled by the keeper or the slips, especially if I am missing the otside edge regularly.
Then comes, ' He's only got one shot !' when I a do connect with one over to cow corner greated by ' Moo's !'
As I'm 6ft 6 and of rugby build brandishing a 3lb Grizzly, I open myself upto a barrage of names including Barney Bear, Big man etc, you get the picture!
I find a stare can shut some people up especially when you make it perfectly clear they have annoyed you. Or best still, it normally motivates me and gets me focused.
There was a lad bowling last year giving it some verbal, I won the personal battle as he didn't get me out. I gave some back too and he didn't like it, mainly in the form of planting him into the carpark.
It's an age old saying, don't dish it out if you don't like it back.
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nothing breaks my concentration. I got a huge amount of chirp when I didn't walk for a fine glove in a game last season. Had keeper,slips on it me for 20 overs. 3 lads in the last over we played were talking, just pulled away 3 times in the over and waited. I just sit in my little bubble and only concentrate on the next delivery.
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then ball after when he puts u for six over your head and u walk down right infront of him and do a bit of gardening?
Bowlers always win the battle and its not often I get hit for 6
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I'm normally one of the people saying things to put the batsman off in th field rather than being sledged at myself.
But as a bowler you can't beat a glare after a long follow through after a batsman has had a swipe and missed. No words need to be spoken ;)
If someone glared at me in their follow-through I'd laugh
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Walk out to do some gardening, see how much bottle the bowler has when you are doing this while keeping eye contact if he has a long stare at you with a long follow through
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Having looked back at the posts in this thread it's quite easy to guess the relative ages of the posters! The younger members seem to think sledging is a part of the game (although I doubt any are playing at a level where it really is) and the older members seem to see sledging for what it is. An ugly part of the game that adds nothing but takes away a lot. Sledging is for pikeys... ;)
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Sledging doesn't work on anybody 30 and above with enough experience to know it's just talk. I've played against guys who have first class/minor county experience and after that some little inbred kid mouthing off in a 2nd XI village game really doesn't impress me.
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Having looked back at the posts in this thread it's quite easy to guess the relative ages of the posters! The younger members seem to think sledging is a part of the game (although I doubt any are playing at a level where it really is) and the older members seem to see sledging for what it is. An ugly part of the game that adds nothing but takes away a lot. Sledging is for pikeys... ;)
It shows how hard some people play the game and at what sort of standard. The higher the so called standard, the more sledging you will encounter.
I do not see anything wrong in sledging, IF done in a right manner if that makes sense. There is an art to sledging, and when mastered, it is a useful weapon
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It shows how hard some people play the game and at what sort of standard. The higher the so called standard, the more sledging you will encounter.
I do not see anything wrong in sledging, IF done in a right manner if that makes sense. There is an art to sledging, and when mastered, it is a useful weapon
Sledging (Merv Hughes aside!) shouldn't really be insulting. I see it as more a case of wit, and subtlety, than an insult!
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This kid must like JLS, he's only got one shot!
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Sledging (Merv Hughes aside!) shouldn't really be insulting. I see it as more a case of wit, and subtlety, than an insult!
Agreed. There is nothing like sledging someone and their own team mates laugh at them. Even better when the dummy gets spat out after
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Agreed. There is nothing like sledging someone and their own team mates laugh at them. Even better when the dummy gets spat out after
If anything, I sledge/have banter with my teammates, helps team moral if you can joke with each other!
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If someone glared at me in their follow-through I'd laugh
Always good to blow a kiss :D
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Or, indeed, wait until they blink and then say "Ha! You blinked, I win!"