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[Bez013]

Had quite an "intense" player at my old club, he hated losing or people doing things badly - he set himself high standards and expected others to do the same.

He dropped quite an easy catch in a not all that important game and was so angry he took off one of his shoes and launched it towards the boundary whilst swearing a lot, the rest of us were in absolute fits of laughter as he was making his way very slowly towards the boundary to collect the errant shoe.

[gibbinscricket]

Very village moment on the weekend. Their 1st slip wore a dark brown Akubra in the field.

[Cow_corner]

Same player in our club, wears what appears to be cycling shoes, often hands his track suit top to the umpire when coming on to bowl. Wears a martial arts jock strap over his white shell suit bottoms when batting.

[Buzz]

I was batting last year, when the player fielding at Cover started arguing with the Captain, claiming he should be put on to bowl. Well the Captain who was standing at slip, was having none of it! and he firmly told (in good old rural oxfordshire) the player "he was the Captain, he picks who bowl and when".

 

The fielder at Cover then folded his arms, pushed his bottom lip out and started kicking at the ground.  Three balls later the arms were still crossed when I pushed the ball to his left.  The ball ran passed him and gently down the slope towards the club house.  The sulking player made no attempt to stop the ball, he just looked at the captain and smiled.  He then turned and slowly ran after the now stationary ball, by the time he had reached the ball which was about 10 yards from the boundary edge, we were on our third run. In stead of picking the ball up and returning it to the keeper, the unhappy player transformed himself into Ronaldo and dribbled the ball towards the club house and the boundary. Stopping the ball a yard short of the rope he stopped turned toward the Captain and stuck two fingers up.  He then toe punted the ball through the open door of the club house and he walked off the pitch and into the club house. 

 

Minutes later the player emerged from the club house dragging his kit bag, and headed towards the car park.  Stopping in his tracks, a look of horror came over the player as he realised, first he had not driven his car the 25 miles to the game and second he had given a lift by the now not so happy Captain.

Everyone needs to relive this

[roco]

I can remember feeling really uncomfortable and that something was wrong batting then after 5/6 balls I realised I had put my inner thigh pad on instead of my outer

I had the embarrassment of having to shout for the correct pad then changing in the middle

[Lwesty143]

Played against Tom Kohler-Cadmore last weekend who walked out to bat with his phone in his pocket and had to give it to the square leg umpire. He then nailed a beautiful straight drive for 4 first ball and then left his second ball which knocked his off peg out and had to collect his phone from square leg as he trudged off. Fair to say my team were rolling about laughing

[ScottParko]

Played against Tom Kohler-Cadmore last weekend who walked out to bat with his phone in his pocket and had to give it to the square leg umpire. He then nailed a beautiful straight drive for 4 first ball and then left his second ball which knocked his off peg out and had to collect his phone from square leg as he trudged off. Fair to say my team were rolling about laughing

I've done that! Opened the batting with my phone still there from tea, and gave it to someone to take into the changing rooms, luckily I lasted two balls so my phone hadn't even made it as far as the changing rooms before I was out!

[Gurujames]

No. 11 didnt have a grip on his bat. But at the end of the game I put one on for him free of charge. The 'I only bat 3 times a season' doesn't wash with me and I think makes for a friendly game.
He was happy. I was happier

[Bats_Entertainment]

Played against Tom Kohler-Cadmore last weekend who walked out to bat with his phone in his pocket and had to give it to the square leg umpire. He then nailed a beautiful straight drive for 4 first ball and then left his second ball which knocked his off peg out and had to collect his phone from square leg as he trudged off. Fair to say my team were rolling about laughing

And to think this was someone who'd had a bat named after him!

[jamielsn15]

Umpiring LMS last week. Guy got to the middle and i asked if he'd forgotten anything. He realised he didn't have his gloves, thigh pad nor box. On his return i made it clear i didn't know his box had been missing...

Also looked over to our square leg fielding last weekend and he had a crafty fag on the go!

[tom line]

Had a guy in our team yesterday, not a cricketer by any stretch of the imagination he just turns up and is happy to be field and have a laugh, hit the ball to square leg and dropped his bat straight onto the stumps thinking you could drop the bat to run 😂

[Seniorplayer]

Saw a player given out Lbw he sulks off and for rest of his teams innings  walks around the boundry about 20 tomes shouting how was that umpire to every ball.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Had a guy in our team yesterday, not a cricketer by any stretch of the imagination he just turns up and is happy to be field and have a laugh, hit the ball to square leg and dropped his bat straight onto the stumps thinking you could drop the bat to run 😂

I'd be surprised if that was beaten!

[GoodLeave]

Had a guy in our team yesterday, not a cricketer by any stretch of the imagination he just turns up and is happy to be field and have a laugh, hit the ball to square leg and dropped his bat straight onto the stumps thinking you could drop the bat to run 😂

In fairness to him, his theory is solid.

He just didn't execute it very well!

[ScottParko]

Also looked over to our square leg fielding last weekend and he had a crafty fag on the go!

Our keeper will often head straight to his bag during drinks for a fag and can of strongbow choosing to bypass the juice and water. He will often still have said cigarette in his mouth after the drinks break, keeping with it still smoking away.