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[Vantage_Cricket]

Dan, along similar lines - can't remember the guy's name, but there was a bloke in the league I used to play in who was notorious for providing his own running commentary.
...'And he comes in and bowls. - And that's too short and wide from John...' etc.

Theres a guy in our midweek league who is constantly shouting and giving a running commentry, supposed to be playing him this evening if the rain clears. It's not too much like 'commentry' though, more so putting you off and want to smack him

[SaadIjaz]

We Play the times league rules so if you do not bowl the oppo out in your allotted time in the 2nd Inns the match is deemed as a draw. Were playing the worst team in the league and had them 9 down with 8 overs still to go. Their batsman woudln't offer a shot to anything which was missing the sticks..

Unforutnately for us, the batting team supplies their own umpire (player) and things got really out of hand.. After about 18 LBW shouts in 4 overs, it was getting ridiculous that we weren't gonna get a wicket... We gave the Ump a bit of stick for not giving clear shouts out, So the umpire took off his jacket, Slammed it at our bowler and Swore.. After walking off a few steps came back to kick the stumps out of the ground..  -- Once he was escorted off - The next umpire gave us the wicket!

[Montys Beard]

Joined a new team late last year, and I'm sure the 'tactic' of (genuinley) misfielding thus causing the oppo to run a second before being run out, became a legitimate and used method.

....Say what you want Dan but it works mate 

[Dan W]

....Say what you want Dan but it works mate 

Big Momma our secret fielding weapon!

[Nickauger]

Sledging a guy on 160+ and then sledging a guy for playing an attacking shot to a good ball when 300-3. Not our opening bowlers finest hour!

[iand123]

Team we played last weekend has an umpire who didn't seem to know the rules. Kept coming up to our ump every few overs asking questions, however the best bit was when he tried to call one short for the batsmen not completing a run when they stopped midway as the ball went for 4!

[trypewriter]

Perhaps village - perhaps not. But just some random moments that make cricket such an interesting and entertaining game.

Turning and firing the ball at the stumps in one movement because in your peripheral vision you've seen a man backing up behind the stumps. Then the incredible feeling of relief when you hit the sticks, as you have realised too late that the man backing up was actually the umpire!

Seeing a first team bowler thrashed a long, long, way out of the nets. He doesn't go to retrieve the ball but stalks straight back to the pavilion to get changed.

Getting padded up in the changing room as a team mate returns after getting his third first baller in as many innings. Studiously avoiding eye contact, you hear the crash of his bat against the wall, then the slam of the toilet door...then sobbing...

A team mate running around the boundary to attempt a catch has his eyes fixed on the descending ball. He loses his footing and sprawls forward. The ball hits him on the back of the head and bounces over the rope for six. Fortunately only his pride is seriously dented.

The opposition are delighted to find plenty of parking spaces a short walk from the pavilion, the home players graciously taking a longer walk to the facilities. Two broken wing mirrors and a smashed tail light later, they are less impressed by the generosity of the gesture.

[Nickauger]

Steve Kirby retrieving the ball from a forward defensive shot, firing it at the stumps, missing by yards, and sending Jos Buttler sprawling to try and stop it. Buttler can't get close and the ball flies away for 4 overthrows!

Maybe not village, but the funniest happened to me tonight. In the nets with the bowling machine firing 80 mph yorkers. Bat misses the ball, hits the bottom bar of the net and goes into orbit. Hits one roof about 40 yards behind the nets ricochets into another and lands in the road. Hilarious!

[Gloves]

Steve Kirby retrieving the ball from a forward defensive shot, firing it at the stumps, missing by yards, and sending Jos Buttler sprawling to try and stop it. Buttler can't get close and the ball flies away for 4 overthrows!

Maybe not village, but the funniest happened to me tonight. In the nets with the bowling machine firing 80 mph yorkers. Bat misses the ball, hits the bottom bar of the net and goes into orbit. Hits one roof about 40 yards behind the nets ricochets into another and lands in the road. Hilarious!

Haha,
That was at the Hampshire, Surrey match wasn't it!
A few years ago when somebody was out they chucked their bat and it landed near one of our fielders, He then shouted " That's not how you check a bat, this is!" He picked up the bat and chucked it way over the pavilion!

[trypewriter]

I did hear of a first class player on a bad trot storming into the dressing room - which emptied very swiftly - the guys outside then hearing the sound of furious sawing as he vented his rage on the bat that had betrayed him one time too many...

[ianbuchanan]

Guy who used to play at our club is remembered to have also cut his bat in half with a saw.. And on a separate occasion, throw his bat onto a flooded flat roof!

[Jenko]

One fella I used to play with was a class bat, had a very lean trot and after yet another low score stormed to the rooms, snapped his bat in half and jammed each piece through the gyprock n the roof....not funny at the time!

[Blazer]

One of our fourth team player vented his anger at getting out by first throwing his bat at the stump, it missed and hit the opposition junior keeper. He apologised and moved towards the dressing room and then before reaching the door hurled his bat in , it missed again and hit the window and caused damage to both window and the bat. The worst part of all was that it was a borrowed bat !.

[trypewriter]

One of our players told me of an occasion when he opened the innings, and got an absolute jaffa first ball that seriously damaged all his furniture. In bad humour he slung his bat into the corner of the dressing room, ripped off his pads and gloves, and after a few moments reflection on the injustices of life wandered back outside to watch the rest of the action. The bowler that had got him out was still bowling. 'He's bowled six consecutive wides since he got you out - he's s**t,' someone helpfully remarked.

[Dan W]

One of our players told me of an occasion when he opened the innings, and got an absolute jaffa first ball that seriously damaged all his furniture. In bad humour he slung his bat into the corner of the dressing room, ripped off his pads and gloves, and after a few moments reflection on the injustices of life wandered back outside to watch the rest of the action. The bowler that had got him out was still bowling. 'He's bowled six consecutive wides since he got you out - he's s**t,' someone helpfully remarked.