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Title: Best wicket
Post by: superstumper on May 20, 2008, 05:52:22 PM
Whats the best/favourite wicket you have ever got? Im a keeper but i bowled once and bowled this guy a bouncer... he hit it and it went up in the air dropped down hit his helmet and i caught it!!!
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Post by: Arthur on May 20, 2008, 06:20:50 PM
I think for me it has to be when I was on four wickets, just got my fourth in fact, and I had one ball left in my 12 over spell. Left hander came in, I came around the wicket, bowled him, first ball, hit the top of off stump for my second ever 5-for, my 1st of the season, was well chuffed! ;D
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Post by: sammyboy on May 20, 2008, 06:34:38 PM
I was on a hattrick ball and also had 4 wickets, bowled an awful leg stump full toss and he just flicked it straight to square leg.   I was well happy
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Post by: Richie on May 20, 2008, 08:27:22 PM
Mine was probably last year 1st game of the season, opening the bowling.  1st ball I run up against one of my county mates, bowled a ball that swung away and seamed back in and took off stuff out, was well chuffed!!  He just smiled at me and probably knew he'd been done! ;D
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Post by: MD14 on May 20, 2008, 08:54:49 PM
Only wicket for County (very occasional leggie); pitched outside leg, hit top of off. Absolutely no exaggeration, I'm a big turner of the ball because I don't put any topspin on!
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Post by: Original on May 21, 2008, 03:45:30 PM
First district wicket, arm ball, nicked behind.  8)
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Post by: TheAwesomeSLA on May 21, 2008, 04:48:40 PM
best wickets are when a guy shapes up to play a forward defensive shot and you spin the ball right through his defense. got a few like that!
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Post by: Sambo on May 23, 2008, 07:59:43 AM
moved the ball from outside leg and got the top of off. ball-of-the-century-esque
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Post by: stevie on May 23, 2008, 07:35:36 PM
well from a keepers perspective the best wickets are the nice gentle knics which come through at about waist hight.
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Post by: Andy on May 24, 2008, 01:49:26 PM
most likely when the opening batsmen on 56 charged me and tried to slog me. I pitched the ball a little shorter and is spun away from the batsman, easy stumping  ;D
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Post by: Original on May 31, 2008, 04:48:34 PM
just recently got a better one, big turner,batsmen left it and it spun back and hit off ;D
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Post by: Marcussjd9 on May 31, 2008, 05:39:37 PM
Had One Similar To Those Mentioned Before.... OS Round The Wicket To A Left Hander.... Pitched Outside Leg, gripped Turned n Hit Off. Exact Same Ball To A RH On The Drive.... So Round The Wicket Pitched Outside Off n Hit Leg.
My Other 2 Favorites Are When I Bowled A Left Hander Round His Legs From Around The Wicket & When I Flighted One Up Outside The Offstump.... You Could See The Batsmens Eyes Light Up..... But It Was A Doosra :) No Where Near It .... Keeper Loved Taking That Stumping :L As The Batsmen Had Said He Was Gunna Hit Me For 6 Apparently :P
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Post by: Dan on June 08, 2008, 07:15:35 PM
Guy left the ball a foot outside leg stump and it ripped back and took his middle bail! That and I bowled a ball on leg which hit the top of off stump beating the outside edge.
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Post by: Stumped7 on June 08, 2008, 08:52:44 PM
Stumping a guy who was waiting for an LBW verdict
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Post by: Sameer on June 09, 2008, 10:30:36 AM
i was on a hatrick ball yesterday.. first two i got out with straight skidding deliveries..one hit middle stump, second one hit off stump.. my next hatrick ball was wide of offstump but defended by the batsmen.

these 2 were my best wickets since I bowled them both the same way, and made me feel confident and consistent.
Both pitched on legish and were seaming away to right handed batsmen.. I was bowling left arm over the wicket

ps. at the interval, i had to check the mirror, since i thought i was Ryan Sidebottom.. but it was just me..Sameer  ::)
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Post by: Ben77mc on July 05, 2008, 04:59:21 PM
Bowled some batsman who was on 64 around the legs ;)
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Post by: nickroe92 on January 25, 2009, 09:42:21 PM
In an academy match which Ed was captaining, i took a ball that missed off by about an inch and made a loud 'ooohhh' noise. The offensive batsman turns to me and says ''What's 'ohhhh' about?'' I dont reply. The next ball the bowler slips it down leg and i take the ball and remove the bails with the batsman nearly 6'' out of his ground. I then reply.
'THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT...VILLAGE!!'
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Post by: Chrissy on January 25, 2009, 09:49:08 PM
I think it has to be the ball that i bowled that pitched outside leg and swung so much that it hit top of off stump. It was an absloute cracker of a ball even if i do say so myself.
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Post by: nickroe92 on January 25, 2009, 09:58:25 PM
late swing is the bain of my life being a keeper and opening bat......
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Post by: Sully on January 26, 2009, 10:36:34 AM
I play in the staffs league and we played on an awful wicket which resembled a badly kept allotment. It was at Rodbaston College.

Well If you pitched the ball just outside the righ handers off stump and just short of a good length one would get vicious bounce coupled with amazing in movement.  Took 6 that day and id never been called Brett Lee ever or since!! Not bad for a 60-65mph dibbly dobbler methinks lol.
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Post by: sultanofswing on January 26, 2009, 11:11:04 AM
Did you call yourself brett lee?
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Post by: Sully on January 26, 2009, 11:25:26 AM
Lols no my teamates did though the sarcasm was obvious. Im more of a salim malik/ steve waugh type but slower lol.
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Post by: Sam to the C on January 26, 2009, 12:46:26 PM
probably a chinaman pitching on off stump and hitting the batsmen on the helmet
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Post by: MD14 on January 26, 2009, 05:08:19 PM
In an academy match which Ed was captaining, i took a ball that missed off by about an inch and made a loud 'ooohhh' noise. The offensive batsman turns to me and says ''What's 'ohhhh' about?'' I dont reply. The next ball the bowler slips it down leg and i take the ball and remove the bails with the batsman nearly 6'' out of his ground. I then reply.
'THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT...VILLAGE!!'
Typical schoolboy banter...

Speaking of which, I also look back favourably on talking 'nickroe92' out of his wicket twice this summer when his team were looking set (as well as sledging him as batsman to keeper). Those wickets would be fairly far up my list!
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Post by: Coach on January 26, 2009, 06:00:28 PM
There has been a few a full length dive, a sweep off the back of the bat diving low to a spinner and stumpings off both spinners and quicks, love them all! The best are the ones noone expects yoy to catch tho!
Title: Re: Best wicket
Post by: Sully on January 26, 2009, 10:15:24 PM
probably a chinaman pitching on off stump and hitting the batsmen on the helmet
Im right handed therefore I cant be a chinaman...I am a dibbly dobbler though but lethal on a wet cabbage patch laden 'pitch'....
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Post by: WALSHY on January 27, 2009, 01:32:47 AM
im a left hand bowler who angles it a cross the right hander anyways

best wicket - pitched outside off and he nicked it to first slip for a great catch!
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Post by: dekaz on January 27, 2009, 11:58:11 AM
my bowling is pants!

my right arm everythings are terrible but in junior cricket, everyone has to bowl.

on the back of a lucky 2fer the week before, we were playing the reigning premiers.

i trundled in and some big fella knicked it through to the keeper, 2 overs later i bowled some poor bloke after it skided on a wet synthetic. next ball, i bowled their captain with a yorker. i was ecstatic.






hat trick ball was a no-ball :D
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Post by: ianbuchanan on February 22, 2009, 09:19:43 PM
mine was in a league game where it had rained all night and we had to play on an artificial wicket, i bowled this guy a ball which was so wide it bounced on the grass beside the artificial, and the batter slapped it straight to point, i was so embarrassed!