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Title: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: cd0070 on November 22, 2009, 04:30:01 PM: Was I the only one thinking that he was trying the Dilshan special without a helmet after reading the headlines..

Glad hes ok though.. :D
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Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: Apple on November 22, 2009, 04:35:24 PM: I could only imagine him wearing one through is grill on this one!
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: ianbuchanan on November 23, 2009, 05:36:53 PM: haha, bit ironick, playing that shot god knows how many times and then gets a facial injury during a football match :D

a mate of mine tried his shot a while ago and ended up with a fat lip! straight under the grill.....
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: slogger02 on November 23, 2009, 06:38:14 PM: i tried it without a helmet which was a very bloody experience, a passer by thought i had been shot!
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: GJ on November 23, 2009, 06:41:19 PM: Witnessed a mate trying it, only to guide it perfectly into his grill. ;D

I dont think i'll try it until i've mastered the sweep!
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: cd0070 on November 23, 2009, 06:57:37 PM: Tried it with a tennis ball first.. Probably 1 of the smartest move I made in my life.. ;D

Tennis ball fuzz tastes pretty bad.. :D
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: Washington on November 23, 2009, 07:01:35 PM: Haha

I tried it last season . . .presented the easiest of catches to the WK after the ball smashed into my left shoulder!!

Needless to say it will stay in the locker indefinately from now on!!
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: Apple on November 23, 2009, 08:07:50 PM: im working on mine, not the full blown but the slightly more normal way of going across and flicking it over the shoulder!

I play that towards the end of a net.
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: nickroe92 on November 23, 2009, 08:10:58 PM: i tend to try it like Apple but near the end of the net.
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: Apple on November 23, 2009, 09:01:11 PM: I like it because on a length you can get it away and if its full you can as well, if its short and if you have amazing hands you can get it over still, I dont but still
Title: Re: Dilshan suffers broken nose
Post by: ianbuchanan on November 23, 2009, 10:20:04 PM: a different mate played it perfectly on a ball outside off stump with a bowling machine on 70!