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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: wilkie113 on December 22, 2012, 10:43:53 PM
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Seems as these big headed people are telling everyone who magnificent there shots were last season ;).
I thought I'd make a topic for us more modest people who either got out/got away with an absolutely hideous shot.
Me myself, loves a hideous shot! I just can't resist doing it!
Fourth or fifth ball I came marching down the wicket to a medium pacer, tried to smash the leather of the ball, completely missed it and got bowled middle stump haha
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Change of bowler at one end(knew he hardly bowls)..first ball he bowls I try and get the slog sweep out....clean bowled
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First ball of last season tried to smash it for six (opening), the ball went straight up in the air and the keeper dropped it :) needless to say I put the shot away for a few weeks ;)
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nice thread!
my worst shot was my second game of the season, I had a massive red mist moment and got cleaned up for one. not the best way to to start a run chase.
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haha i decided to try and defend the ball (for once) no swing no seaming a perfectly straight ball at under 50 mph and he bowled me -_- mind you this was 2 years ago i have improved :D (i think :/)
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I've had many bat shots that are equally as bad as one another.
I got bowled a full toss by what can only be described as a 12th change spinner, tried to melt it for six, massive top edge and I was caught on the boundary when we were on top of the run chase
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Worst shots
a) First few balls since getting to the crease.. bowler bowls a low full toss.. Master batsmen I am thinks 'easy runs here, whip it away through midwicket'... Only problem is... I missed the ball!.. bowled.. oopppsss
b) On 71 and cruising.. young spinner is on.. decided to hit him into oblivion.... yeah, I just missed it and was bowled :(
c) Tried the dill scoop, middled it!!! only my shoulder, making it balloon up to the wicket keeper.. looked a right tool (and felt one)
d) Saw off the opening bowlers, and first change.. sat on 49 in a first team game.. Mr part timer comes on.. bowls a rank long hop... master batsmen that I am decided to pull it.... yeah, completely missed it!! LBW... out.. gutted!!!!
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Watched a guy get out bowled to a bouncer yesterday....it was so slow it took the top of off stump, on the way down. He nearly put his back out trying to slog it!
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skipped down the wicket after being at the crease for a while, missed a half volley :S off stump out the ground..turned out i was on 47 ......idiot
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My best and worst shots happened in the same match and very much set the tone for rest of the season. Having played a nice shot and buoyed by classiness of it , I declared to myself as the best player in that cricket field. I decided to loft a leg spinner through the covers into the field amidst the sheep. The ball hit the bottom of the bat and looped to mid off . Classic rookie mistake 8) .
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A little tribute so some terrible leaves by international players :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Qq5LK6QME&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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It's funny how many times in that video Clarke has been dismissed leaving the ball!
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Needed to bat out last few overs batting with the tail for a draw (bloody time game again). Old trundler bowling loopy pies and i checked a nothing push straight to cover >:( what a muppet or words to that effect was all i heard all evening in the club house.
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Loved watching the utube just posted.. Lots of ashes action.. Flintoff is the reason I got into the game in 2009, guys a legend. Luckily I now have the same bat maker that made his bats so chuffed :)
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Smashing 3 fours through cover in successive balls, then wafting my bat at the fourth and getting caught!
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How long have you got?
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was facing an offspinner went up on 2nd last ball of innings we needed 5 to win tried to get a 6 but ball spun straight past got leg stump
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Oooh, interesting....
Wish I could say there were no contenders but....
Well, being stumped runningdown the wicket at Windsor was embarrassing - not so much for being stumped itself, which is so unusual for Brigadeer Block here that I kinda wore it like a badge of honour, as for the fact that I got three steps down, my knee locked up and I couldn't even have a hack at it!
More embarassing still was a Sunday game at Cookham where I made a fairly solid 80-odd, only for them to bring their keeper one with two needed. At which point I smashed it straight at their skipper at extra and had to walk off to hoots of laughter...
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My worst was, I was opening batting for school against a local rival school and we were chasing 120 odd and I had seen off their 3 notable bowlers who had took 3 wickets between them until they brought on a guy who had never played before he slung his arm over like a shoddy malinga, I went to square cut him and played on. I got mugged off by their team and by my team and we lost the game.
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After hitting 2 huge sixes for Dorset I took a horrid, wild cross bat slash at a slower ball outside of stump. Took the edge and looped to point. I was so angry at myself >:(
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probably when well set on 43 and not looking like getting out, cutting one straight to point, we were bowled out for 111 or something as well :/ i think i batted at 7, next week i opened walked down the track on 20 odd tried smashing the 1st change bowler back over his head, bowled, off peg knocked back
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Well was facing an off spinner.
1st ball 4
2nd ball nice 2 through the gap
3rd ball play no shot,
clean bowled looked like a tool!!
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Facing a decent paced in-swing bowler, he had no fine leg in so I walked to outside off stick in an attempt to flick it down there.
I missed, he didn't. He took all three stumps out of the ground (it was a tad wet), there was nothing left to look at.
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Watched a guy get out bowled to a bouncer yesterday....it was so slow it took the top of off stump, on the way down. He nearly put his back out trying to slog it!
Did this a couple of times this season. Slow pitch, no bounce, so pile it in short and watch the ball turn into a horribly slow bouncer that the batsman simply plays over the top of as it hits the stumps or his legs. Either way a wicket...
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Watched a guy get out bowled to a bouncer yesterday....it was so slow it took the top of off stump, on the way down. He nearly put his back out trying to slog it!
I did the exact same thing a couple of months. I was on 45...
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I have far to many from last season, that picking one is like finding a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately my good shots were so far and few between that I sometimes think I am dreaming that I ever played them!
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Holed out to deep cover off a wide, juicy full toss from a part-time leg spinner. Pretty horrific! :-[
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Does your shot have to connect with the ball? :-[ I tried to sweep a yorker off the opposition opening bowler, which was pretty stupid. We were in the final few overs and I had batted for quite a while though, so I thought why not try get many runs. 8)
In terms of shots which did connect, it's a toss up between cutting a wide and short ball from a spinner only to get caught behind, or cutting a pace bowler, only for the guy at gully to take a spectacular diving catch to his right. :( To be honest though, looking back in previous years, these aren't so bad. I think that's more to do with the lack of cricket more than improvement though... :-[
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I suppose getting bowled on 47 reverse sweeping a seamer was embarrassing, but i stand by the shot its fun to play :D
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Guy went round the wicket to me, ball well outside off stump, left it, swung back in like a boomerang and clipped off stump :(
Walked off to chirps of "good leave mate" from the idiot oppo keeper >:(
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Worst Shot?
Every single Jäger bomb I did last year....
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Haha The_Bird true that.
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Slog sweep against a quality spinner missed by three days clean bowled got heckled by my team mates was gold never live it down