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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Wedge2408 on January 08, 2013, 03:03:30 PM
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I thought that with so many cricketers on here that this could be quite an entertaining topic, I'd imagine there would be a few good stories floating around...
I figured that I'd get the ball rolling with a recent occurrence.
In my second last game before the christmas break (aussie season). Opening the batting in a one dayer I was going along quite nicely, scoring pretty quickly. However being a hot day my gloves were getting quite sweaty, however as I only had one pair at the game :o I ignored this and kept batting. Clearly this was a bad decisions because an over later the opposition brought a spinner on and whilst attempting to hit him out of the park, my bat proceeded to fly out in the direction of the square leg ump!!
As I was busy watching my bat it took me a while to realise that I had been bowled!!
I walked off to the laughter and ribbing from my teammates, for 45...
Feel free to add any of your own cricketing moments....
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prowannabe dropped 3 catches at deep square leg in the same over.....
all the same haha that was pretty funny!!!
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rupturing my Achilles appealing from first slip. (the batsman smashed it but was given not out)
felt like I had been shot.
I copped a whole world of abuse (not least from my wife!)
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At the end of my time at school, we went on tour to Barbados for 3 weeks. During a floodlit game at the 3 W's against Uni of West Indies, my mate who wasn't really a cricketer (was on the trip more for the Rum and the Sun) found himself on the boundary underneath the highest of high catches. In front of a crowd of probably 500, rather than attempt a catch, he volleyed it one bounce back to my gloves! The crowds erupted with laughter!
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In my late teens, in the middle batting, somehow a wasp got into my trousers. I got stung, and I was trousers round my knees shooing the wasp away, much to the laughter of the opposition...
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At the end of my time at school, we went on tour to Barbados for 3 weeks. During a floodlit game at the 3 W's against Uni of West Indies, my mate who wasn't really a cricketer (was on the trip more for the Rum and the Sun) found himself on the boundary underneath the highest of high catches. In front of a crowd of probably 500, rather than attempt a catch, he volleyed it one bounce back to my gloves! The crowds erupted with laughter!
I'm in tears thinking about that. I bet that was absolutely hilarious Jake
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I'm in tears thinking about that. I bet that was absolutely hilarious Jake
I've been back to Barbados since, and the hotel we stayed has my helmet which we all signed and left with them, on display in their bar. The barman was at that game and when i went back to see him 3 years ago he told the story to a big group of his regular local customers, they were crying with laughter!
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I really wish that had been video'd mate. You'd have made a killing with youtube advertisement and views lol!
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Got to admit, but in one game I was called into the team about an hour before. I had told them I wasn't playing as it was a big night on the friday. So I got out of bed put whites on and headed to the ground, fielding first.
As the ball was thrown to me at mid-in I just looked at it in a haze, put the hands out missed for it to hit me in the baby maker. As only a couple of my team mates saw this, I quickly picked up the ball threw it to the bowler and gritted my teeth for a long time after.
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A number of years ago. I was. Playing 3rd XI cricket however 1st XI were short so I got call-up(had played before as fielding was reasonable) as 2's were pushing for promotion we were playing Banbury Town with Neal Radford + co.
Batted 7 or 8 after decent start lost a few wickets so batted faced Radford ok, however overseas Craig Haupt was bowling spin I guided a few through slip(open face not edged). However then came down the track + placed for 2or 3 through covers when he decided to try + trip me up when turning. When I asked boys if I should tell him I was. Playing against their 3rd team the week before(we weren't happy as separate teas for home + away
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Why is someones misfortune or pain so funny?
Its more the way the injury occurred, rather than the injury itself that makes its comical.
No one likes getting injured, and achilles can be terrible, but getting injured whilst appealing makes a story.
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Played in a game and our quickie hit their opener straight in the tabs. The guy on the floor had apparently forgot his box! The ball strike actually split one knacker in two and his sack was the size of a baseball within seconds!
A lot of the people you play with seem to get hit in the jewels... :D
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I played with a guy who often likes to the tell the story of how steamed dimmies and fielding don't mix...
During the tea break this bloke didn't like anything the club had put on so decided to just hold out, however giving into the hunger he bought a few steamed dimmies with soy sauce. To his dismay the tea break ended right after the purchase, but determined to get his fill he stuck the bag in his pocket thinking "I'm fielding at fine leg, I'll have plenty of time to eat these, the ball will never come to me"
2 balls later the batsmen skys one to the fine leg region so forgetting the dimmies he sprints and attempts a diving catch only to experience a searing pain....
The bag of dimmies had burst!! smashing pipping hot soy sauce and dim sim all along his leg, he spent the remainder of the day on the sideline with an icepack strapped to his leg.
An awkward moment at the time, but now is one of his go to stories on boring game days :)
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We were top of the league, and needed a win to help take away from second place. It was a massively right game, and one of our quicks bowled the last over they needed two to win off the last ball. He bowled a yorker and it was hit back to him, he picked it up was about 2 yards away from the stumps and threw it straight past the stumps and they ran a three! One of the funniest things I've ever seen but was obviously absolutely devastating at the time!
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We were top of the league, and needed a win to help take away from second place. It was a massively right game, and one of our quicks bowled the last over they needed two to win off the last ball. He bowled a yorker and it was hit back to him, he picked it up was about 2 yards away from the stumps and threw it straight past the stumps and they ran a three! One of the funniest things I've ever seen but was obviously absolutely devastating at the time!
Happens an awful lot...
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Played as a guest for a side in Liverpool against an over 40s/50s countys side. I'd been bigged up by the bloke that invited me to play, excellent batsman, reasonable spinner etc. We batting first, I went in with 4 or 5 overs left, nicked the first ball, dropped by the keeper, bowled the next ball. Then got hit for the biggest six I've ever seen whilst bowling and bowled 3 overs for about 35. Needless to say I dropped a catch as well. To say I was embarrassed would be an understatement I felt like a complete and utter idiot, I don't think I'll get asked to go there and play a guest game again!
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Happens an awful lot...
Worst thing was Tim, the batsmen was only half way down the wicket
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One of the funniest for me was when we played in Jamaica against the Jamaica Defence Force Pro40 side. We bowled first and in the blazing early afternoon heat, the Captain tosses the ball to our oldest bowler and says "You can Open". Now he likes to think he has a bit of pace, but in reality it's more like ver, very slow medium Right Arm. The two JDF guys have walked out, helmets on, expecting rapid and short.
First ball he bowls is in the slot and nice and slow. The opener picks it, straight back over his head and out of the ground for six and a lost ball. To add insult to injury, both batsmen walk off to remove their helmets and get their caps as the umpires get a new ball... Much to the mirth of everyone else on the field...!
We still had 5 more tour matches left. Guess who didn't open the bowling again, or live it down, ever...
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Having made a return to cricket after a twenty year break at the tender age of 52 years I knew that I would need to stretch and warm up a bit more than the youngsters in the side.
I didn't want to let myself down keeping wicket. That wasn't the problem, one game where we batted first I pulled both thigh muscles in the space of two overs. Was even sledged by the umpire for slow running between the wickets, ooh the pain in my thighs.
Recover from that and a month later warmed up and stretched again, this time opened the batting and pulled a calf muscle going for a slow single in the first over, the pain was excruciating.
This season I'm not going to warm up cos it does me more harm than good.
Now where did I put the deep heat spray :)
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prowannabe dropped 3 catches at deep square leg in the same over.....
all the same haha that was pretty funny!!!
Don't tell me it was same batsman.
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Playing a fair few years ago, in problys my first season of senior cricket. I was trying to impress the Captain. I remember the ball was tucked behind square to me where i then decide i would launch the ball at the stumps to try and run out the batsman, it justs missed the stumps with the batsman short of his ground, But the ball then hit a foothole. It comically spooned over the Captains head as he wasdiving and falling after the ball and went for 4 overthrows.
This is when the barrage of abuse from the Captain started haha, i think the rest of my team seen the funny side of it...
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We had our first net of the winter last saturday, and one of the guys batting kept getting hit on the thigh and complaining that it is hurting a lot...we kept asking if he was wearing a thigh pad and he said yes (he wanted to practise the glance)...anyways after the net he walked off and when he started removing he gear his thigh pad was his right leg, he also bats right handed...
He still doesn't know why his thigh pad didn't offer any protection :o, what good is remfry or stretton fox or anyother thigh pad if you don't know how to use them ;)...we will be aiming for the thigh again Feb 2nd :D.....btw this guy plays regular cricket might just have been a bad mental day for him...
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We had our first net of the winter last saturday, and one of the guys batting kept getting hit on the thigh and complaining that it is hurting a lot...we kept asking if he was wearing a thigh pad and he said yes (he wanted to practise the glance)...anyways after the net he walked off and when he started removing he gear his thigh pad was his right leg, he also bats right handed...
He still doesn't know why his thigh pad didn't offer any protection :o, what good is remfry or stretton fox or anyother thigh pad if you don't know how to use them ;)...we will be aiming for the thigh again Feb 2nd :D.....btw this guy plays regular cricket might just have been a bad mental day for him...
:D We had something similar a long time ago in junior cricket where the batsman had went into the net taken his guard but was actually standing there with his helmet on backwards! :P
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:D We had something similar a long time ago in junior cricket where the batsman had went into the net taken his guard but was actually standing there with his helmet on backwards! :P
:o haha priceless...
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Hah, some of these stories are bringing back some memories for me.
My last ever U15 game for my club, we were playing some local rivals. The game was all but won, we had 3 overs to get a lad who had never played cricket before out. He was just making up the numbers for his mate who was the captain.
He strolled out with typical non cricketer swagger. The umpire asked if he needed a guard. He grabbed his groin area and replied with: 'got one mate'
Our bowler started to run in, but aborted and decided to go around the wicket instead. The umpire informed the batsman, who stood puzzled for a moment, before switching his hands around, and then turning his whole body to bat left handed!
We fell about in hysterics, the umpire gave up trying to explain it to him and allowed play to continue. He took a huge heave at it and amazingly made a decent connection but was caught on the boundary.
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Took a bit of extra refreshment out with me when we were fielding after tea.
Wasn't really concentrating at gully, and a catchable ball thudded into my upper arm and onto the deck.
The reason: I was sneaking a crafty bourbon out of my pocket when I saw the bowler in his delivery stride - instead of dropping it and going into the crouch, I panicked and tried to shove the biscuit back into my whites, my hand got stuck in the pocket, the batsman inevitably snicked it and I looked a chump!
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i was bowling at a tailender ... last ball of the game ...
the mood is set.
i run in ...
i bowl :D
the tailender sticks his bat in front of the ball and it rolls towards me at a dismal pace
and the idiot decides to start running
me in my ecstatic joy at my luck pick up the ball and run at the wicket to smash those scurvy scallywags down !
but ...
i manage to hit the wicket with my left hand instead of my right hand (which held the ball)
i had no idea what to do as everyone was screaming at me to hit the wicket with the ball
so i tried to root the wicket back in the ground and strike it down again
but i couldnt put the wicket in :(
the captain put me out of my misery and hits the wicket for me :')
lucky for me the batsman saw the wickets fall and had already walked back to the pavilion already thinking he was out :D
overall it was a pretty sordid affair.
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Took a bit of extra refreshment out with me when we were fielding after tea.
Wasn't really concentrating at gully, and a catchable ball thudded into my upper arm and onto the deck.
The reason: I was sneaking a crafty bourbon out of my pocket when I saw the bowler in his delivery stride - instead of dropping it and going into the crouch, I panicked and tried to shove the biscuit back into my whites, my hand got stuck in the pocket, the batsman inevitably snicked it and I looked a chump!
Hilarious :')
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Took a bit of extra refreshment out with me when we were fielding after tea.
Wasn't really concentrating at gully, and a catchable ball thudded into my upper arm and onto the deck.
The reason: I was sneaking a crafty bourbon out of my pocket when I saw the bowler in his delivery stride - instead of dropping it and going into the crouch, I panicked and tried to shove the biscuit back into my whites, my hand got stuck in the pocket, the batsman inevitably snicked it and I looked a chump!
Oh Brucie! :D
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i was bowling at a tailender ... last ball of the game ...
the mood is set.
i run in ...
i bowl :D
the tailender sticks his bat in front of the ball and it rolls towards me at a dismal pace
and the idiot decides to start running
me in my ecstatic joy at my luck pick up the ball and run at the wicket to smash those scurvy scallywags down !
but ...
i manage to hit the wicket with my left hand instead of my right hand (which held the ball)
i had no idea what to do as everyone was screaming at me to hit the wicket with the ball
so i tried to root the wicket back in the ground and strike it down again
but i couldnt put the wicket in :(
the captain put me out of my misery and hits the wicket for me :')
lucky for me the batsman saw the wickets fall and had already walked back to the pavilion already thinking he was out :D
overall it was a pretty sordid affair.
If the bails are off pull a stump out the ground while you're holding the ball and the batsman is out ^_^
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If the bails are off pull a stump out the ground while you're holding the ball and the batsman is out ^_^
i found that out a bit to late :')
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I think this was in U13, we needed 1 of the last over with 9 wickets down, but thankfully had our number 5 in still. Now this number 5 was the funniest most idiotic guy i knew, he would warm up while play a 5 year old tretris game...i think he had mild Aspergers. So before the over he needed to change his back as it was cracked and comes back on with a new bat......First ball of the over a lovely pie down leg side which he gave a hugeeeee swing, we all think yes we've won it! Yet when he connects it makes the worst sound ever....hes hit it straight to midwicket. When trudging of the pitch, we all realise hed gone on the pitch with a bloody beach bat...a beach bat! thinking about it now thought however has me in stitched!
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Haha Jimster!
Reminds me of my last match in the u13s, we needed 7 runs off the last 6 balls to win and their skipper, the fastest bowler, came on. Every ball of that over was missed by our batsmen, and every ball was also missed by the keeper!
We managed 6 byes from 6 balls to tie the game :D
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Seen a couple of skiers smash someone in the nuts, thats always quite funny,
but my favorite was playing last year in a pre season friendly, an opposition batsman took a slice of pizza out of his pocket to eat between overs :)
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Oppo needed 3 off the last ball with a new batsman at the crease,he hit it straight to the fielder at cover and ran. Our over enthusiastic fielder threw the ball at the stumps and missed prompting the batsman to take 2. The lad backing up threw it at the stumps again with no one backing up and they won. All the first fielder had to do was underarm the ball to me at the bowlers end and we would've had an easy win...
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A few years ago, our ageing and rotund 4th team captain put himself at silly point without protection. He got struck clean on the forehead and the ball was caught at gully. The captain was fine.
I was not there, the first I knew of it was when the captain came back to the club with a perfect seam mark bruise right in the middle of his forehead.
Beautiful bruise it was.
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Seen a couple of skiers smash someone in the nuts, thats always quite funny,
but my favorite was playing last year in a pre season friendly, an opposition batsman took a slice of pizza out of his pocket to eat between overs :)
My kind of man!
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playing school cricket, batsman hit a skier and as i circled around underneath it at midwicket, the ball was coming straight out of the sun, I completely lost the flight of it and next i new it has smashed me in the forehead! Looked like i had a golf ball on my head for about a week!
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Batsman hits it hard and long going to the fielder on the boundary. The fielder misjudges it. Straight through his hands, hits him on the head and that my friend is how you hit a 6.
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The funniest incident I can recall from last year was one of our players took a caught & bowled that was smashed back straight at him - hit him in the nuts and bounced out into one of his failing hands...
I couldn’t even congratulate him or help him up as I was having trouble breathing.
Incidentally the same guy was responsible for the funniest off field incident a few years ago.
We had just arrived on tour in Epsom, and having a few beers in the beer garden when someone noticed a small stream at the back. Challenges were issued over who could jump it and bets placed - which a few off us took up and made it over.
This guy decided not to be outdone by the younger players, and marked a run up out - proclaiming that he 'was in room number 1 for a reason' and waved his room key around.
Set off boldly on this run-up to clear the 'babbling brook', stuttered and shuffled the last couple of steps. I think he had been watching profesional long jumpers as he 'cycled' in mid-air to gain extra distance, but to no avail and he landed half-way across with an almighty splosh...
Turned out he had brand new jeans on which were now ruined, and pulled his achilles and as a result didn’t play in any of the tour games.
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Being hit in the V.
one of our girls always shouted HIT IN THE V really loudly if it was anywhere near the area, even if someone got hit in the stomach. i'm sure there even was some appealing done with that sentence.
After a night of partying she turned up for one of our less important games rather tired haha lets say it like that.
She and her best friend where batting and she already score 50 out of 20 balls i'd say and he batting partner got hit in the stomach so she went OEEHW was that the V?
when she was on her 82 and our score was around the 250's she got hit in the V. not only did our entire team shout GOT YOU IN THE V, so did the official umpire and the other team..
watch out what you shout about, it might just hit you in the V.
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We have a female!!
Quick, someone say something charming!
Welcome to the forum Leonie :)
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We have a female!!
Quick, someone say something charming!
Welcome to the forum Leonie :)
HAHA! well that made me laugh.
thanks! Dont worry about the charming part i'm used to it. you know with hanging around at cricket clubs and all..
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do you get the old "dont worry women cant drive" shout much?
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do you get the old "dont worry women cant drive" shout much?
No because they know i can, i get the (No Swearing Please) of "Leo like the shorts or shirt." "when you gonna start stretching?". or with being a sports masseuse i get the massage remarks.. but never anything about my cricket haha besides when ive done something stupid in the field when they where watching..
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No because they know i can, i get the (No Swearing Please) of "Leo like the shorts or shirt." "when you gonna start stretching?". or with being a sports masseuse i get the massage remarks.. but never anything about my cricket haha besides when ive done something stupid in the field when they where watching..
ah right fair enough haha. just part and parcel of it i guess.
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ah right fair enough haha. just part and parcel of it i guess.
ahah you think? i have to be honest they get i back but then about their cricket skills basically because 1. their kind of remarks they'll enjoy to much and 2. because i can. haha