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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: tim2000s on May 28, 2013, 08:08:17 AM
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We played a game on Saturday where our high scorer, who scored 96, was dropped seven times and had one missed stumping. His ninth life was the one he was given out on.
Likewise, the opposition's highest scorer was dropped four times by us for his 60-something.
What's the largest number of chances that you've seen given to either one of your or the opposition's players?
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Can't really reply on that, but I do know that last season every chance that I gave was snaffled while teammates were getting a life or two! >:(
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I played with a guy in the season just gone who swings from ball one (three games he hit a six from the first ball he faced), so he usually has a few lives per game. First game I played with him he was dropped eight (yes 8!) times on his way to a quickfire 60-odd. I'd never seen anything like it.
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If I hit it in the air I get caught, I can't remember the last time I was actually dropped :(
I do hate players that just wack it in the air without a care and just seem to get away with it. I know that's down to poor fielding sometimes or plain luck on their side when their edges, insides edges etc all drop short/just over fielders but it's really annoying. Still, the batsmen's job is to score runs no matter how you do it so it's all just cricket :)
Just hate playing these players that's all.
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It's a bit gutting when you're on a bad trot yourself!
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we used a pinch hitter for one game last year and he got 83-10...
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I once dropped the same guy 4 times when I was about 15/16.
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The one that was hit in the air with a lot of time to catch it was dropped. The one that hit him in the chest was caught on the rebound.
But me well I hit a four through the fielders hand and then edge to get caught, most of the time people don't miss the chances when I hit in the air.
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On Sunday our team, fielding first, managed to drop 9 catches and hold on to one. One fielder dropped 6 of the catches. Not a good day for him.
This then spread to the opposition, who managed to drop 5 catches as well. Was interesting, but not unknown for our team...
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If I hit it in the air I get caught, I can't remember the last time I was actually dropped :(
I do hate players that just wack it in the air without a care and just seem to get away with it. I know that's down to poor fielding sometimes or plain luck on their side when their edges, insides edges etc all drop short/just over fielders but it's really annoying. Still, the batsmen's job is to score runs no matter how you do it so it's all just cricket :)
Just hate playing these players that's all.
I had the same thing a couple of weeks ago, hit as screamer which the fielder caught at about ankle height, it just stuck in his hand.
I then ended up umpiring and watched plenty of easier catches dropped. I am not saying I was going to hang around much longer as my track record this season is poor but I have certainly been unlucky to have the two catches I gave stick so far.
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11 dropped catches in an inning of 158* from 57 balls for one of our batsman 2-3 years back...the 11th dropped catch was on 158 so he just walked out after that...first chance was when he had scored less than 20...and then chance number 2 to 11 occoured between 100 - 158....we made close to 400 runs in 40 overs in that game.
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My team droppd a batsman 8 times in his innings of 190 on Sunday! His first drop was on 3! In all we dropped 12 and they got 427 off 40 overs! Catches win matches! Lol
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what I don't get though (and I'm a bastmen) is how people celebrate a 'great' innings after being dropped, given lives or generally just being darn lucky with edges etc. Even they know it was sheer luck. Much rather score my runs without giving all the chances etc
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what I don't get though (and I'm a bastmen) is how people celebrate a 'great' innings after being dropped, given lives or generally just being darn lucky with edges etc. Even they know it was sheer luck. Much rather score my runs without giving all the chances etc
I will take a lucky 100 over a chanceless 70 any day of the week!!!
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I will take a lucky 100 over a chanceless 70 any day of the week!!!
Same!
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I will take a lucky 100 over a chanceless 70 any day of the week!!!
each to their own I suppose.
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I will take a lucky 100 over a chanceless 70 any day of the week!!!
+1 how many people get a completely chanceless ton?
There's more than likely going to be one early on that you get through the slips, or hit in the air through gaps
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Is very rare to see a chanceless half century/century.
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Someone had 6 drops before he got 50 on Saturday :)
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+1 how many people get a completely chanceless ton?
There's more than likely going to be one early on that you get through the slips, or hit in the air through gaps
which is what makes those innings special innings and worthy of praise.
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which is what makes those innings special innings and worthy of praise.
I do apologise, would you like me to bow down and kiss your feet on your chanceless tons?
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I do apologise, would you like me to bow down and kiss your feet on your chanceless tons?
please :)
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I don't know, people often forget that luck is part of cricket too, you get good luck and bad luck. Personally, I would prefer to score the scrappy ton than a flawless 70, not because it's a personal milestone, but those 30 runs are quite often the difference between winning and losing. :-[
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I think a lot of it has to do with the pressure of the catch as well. When all the players know each other like in our league you know who the big hitters are etc. When they hit it in the air for a catch the person under it feels way more pressure to take it than if it was just another batsman. There are a couple of big hitters in my team who I can guarantee that during this season will get dropped double figure times as every year. Its not just coincidence in my opinion that the rest of us might not get to double figures drops betwen us all.
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I'd take a lucky 30 over a chanceless 15, you lot aim too high... :)
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got dropped 3 times yesterday and nearly got ran out, went on to get 112 not out
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I'd take a lucky 30 over a chanceless 15, you lot aim too high... :)
what he said :D
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i scored a 113* with no drops, lbw shouts or missed outs, but the next weekend i scored about 35 and got dropped about 5 times! have played in games were i have seen people hit tons with tens of out opportunities
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I once dropped a guy 3 times in a row at point/cover.
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A few years ago I dropped 4 in one game. Didnt play cricket for 4years after that.
First season back didnt drop a thing.
Came back to play second season back and dropped 3 in one game, didnt get any better until about half way through the season.
So far this year, not even had a sniff.
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I have managed 2 chance less 100's this season so far, depending on the standard you play there quite common, well at least in my league cricket.
I have however been dropped 3 times on 0 and still managed to score 0 when I was bowled in aT20 match last year. I have also seen a wk drop a batsmen twice in a row on last 2 balls of an over and then miss a simple stumping first ball of next over and the batter got a ton and celebrated like he had just won England the ashes, kissing his club badge and everything. Drops I reckon even them selves out its LBW's i reckon that we as batsmen get away with far more often than a dropped chance.
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Too many LBW's? You are joking I'm sure. League umpires are very very quick to trigger, especially in the second innings. Chanceless innings aren't rare, but as you described.. someone doing it with no chances can be justly proud, where as someone who gets dropped etc and gets there, although they can still feel proud you can't really celebrate like you've won teh ashes as you know you shouldn't be there so to speak.
Still, everyone is different. Some don't care about giving chances. I personally hate giving the fielding team a sniff so really don't like giving them anything.
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One of my best mates was batting with me and he got dropped 8 times to make 32. Was so jealous!
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Hardly every get caught so rules me out.......
More nudge it into the gap for the 1s and 2s!!! LBW victim mainly!
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Too many LBW's? You are joking I'm sure. League umpires are very very quick to trigger, especially in the second innings. Chanceless innings aren't rare, but as you described.. someone doing it with no chances can be justly proud, where as someone who gets dropped etc and gets there, although they can still feel proud you can't really celebrate like you've won teh ashes as you know you shouldn't be there so to speak.
Still, everyone is different. Some don't care about giving chances. I personally hate giving the fielding team a sniff so really don't like giving them anything.
Honestly mate in the Kent league LBW decisions definatly go in the batsmens favour, as a keeper I see them all and also as an opening bat I get wrapped on the pads a bit and a lot of umpires are very batter friendly on LBW's. you get the odd " dodgy umpire" but in the main most say not out and then give no reason for the decision just say not out.
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Too many LBW's? You are joking I'm sure. League umpires are very very quick to trigger, especially in the second innings. Chanceless innings aren't rare, but as you described.. someone doing it with no chances can be justly proud, where as someone who gets dropped etc and gets there, although they can still feel proud you can't really celebrate like you've won teh ashes as you know you shouldn't be there so to speak.
Still, everyone is different. Some don't care about giving chances. I personally hate giving the fielding team a sniff so really don't like giving them anything.
You know you shouldn't be there? Nah, not having that. If they don't take the chances then you deserve to be there. Their loss is your gain, you profit from it. That's how cricket works. Just because the oppo can't catch, it shouldn't represent that you "shouldn't be there". You just capitalised on their mistake. Remember KP's ashes 158? Warne dropped him on 0 off Brett Lee. I would bet everything I own that he celebrated that like it was the perfect innings. Guaranteed.
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One of my best mates was batting with me and he got dropped 8 times to make 32. Was so jealous!
im with you on the jealous thing. If I nick it or hit it ariel I get caught.. so I just don't now.
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im with you on the jealous thing. If I nick it or hit it ariel I get caught.. so I just don't now.
I ended up getting out on 34, I was caught on their first attempt, he just smiled at me after!