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[enlightened]

Our first team captain this week lost the toss and then watched in astonishment as the opposition set about moving the boundary in by a few yards all round the ground. A word with the umpires and all was resolved!

[Alvaro]

ShAnnon Gabriel's shot with 8 balls of the Test left....

[iand123]

ShAnnon Gabriel's shot with 8 balls of the Test left....

I saw this first thing, love a bit of village at the highest level!

[calcurtis98]

We had a village moment in my team yesterday, I was actually embarrassed when it happened.

So the oppo were eight wickets down with 2 overs left, one guy had anchored the innings for 30 overs and was keeping the strike playing for the draw. Opening bowler is back on at the other end to myself and the kid batting is poor, ball goes through him and everyone else for byes but they walked one so the old head could keep the strike, so to keep the kid on strike one of our players booted the ball over the line for four thus keeping the kid on strike.

On of the older guys on our team was not happy with this, which in turn lead to him and the opening bowler having an argument - it ended with them swapping the strike back and the elder gent seeing the over out.

[Calzehbhoy]

If the ball had stopped and he kicked it over the rope it would have been overthrows and since they had already crossed the old guy would have been on strike anyway.

[Seniorplayer]

We had a village moment in my team yesterday, I was actually embarrassed when it happened.

So the oppo were eight wickets down with 2 overs left, one guy had anchored the innings for 30 overs and was keeping the strike playing for the draw. Opening bowler is back on at the other end to myself and the kid batting is poor, ball goes through him and everyone else for byes but they walked one so the old head could keep the strike, so to keep the kid on strike one of our players booted the ball over the line for four thus keeping the kid on strike.

On of the older guys on our team was not happy with this, which in turn lead to him and the opening bowler having an argument - it ended with them swapping the strike back and the elder gent seeing the over out.

Saw the same thing happen in a test match

[The Cricket Boutique]

Playing a week ago and a young lad was timing the ball like I haven't seen for a long time. Someone threw the stumps down and made them wobbly. The young lad then started to knock them back in to the ground with the face of his bat! He got 80 odd not out.

[WalkingWicket37]

Saw the same thing happen in a test match

Who, when, where?
Footage of this must exist somewhere!

[Nothing2SeeHere]

Opposition team were chasing down a reasonable score. Opening batsman was playing well on the leg side but missing on blocking on the off side. Their team captain is umpiring. Batsman sweeps for 4. Umpire (captain) shouts out 'How about playing a few shots on the the offside too?'. Next ball, he takes a big stride to the ball and inside edges onto his stumps.

Classic example of why you play to your strengths.

[roco]

one from a few years ago

Our opening bowler (16 at the time) got the opening bat (30yr old ish) LBW then proceeded to celebrate like alan shearer which annoyed the bat so he squared up to him for a fight. I stepped in between telling him politely (people know me) to just go back to which he told me "I don't want to fight you just the little kid" safe to say I escorted him off the field and had a chat with his skipper

[jonazax1717]

We had a village moment in my team yesterday, I was actually embarrassed when it happened.

So the oppo were eight wickets down with 2 overs left, one guy had anchored the innings for 30 overs and was keeping the strike playing for the draw. Opening bowler is back on at the other end to myself and the kid batting is poor, ball goes through him and everyone else for byes but they walked one so the old head could keep the strike, so to keep the kid on strike one of our players booted the ball over the line for four thus keeping the kid on strike.

On of the older guys on our team was not happy with this, which in turn lead to him and the opening bowler having an argument - it ended with them swapping the strike back and the elder gent seeing the over out.

Very similar thing Happened with us, a couple of years ago  but , from my Memory there is Penalty  Runs For Deliberately Kicking the ball over the boundary ?

[edge]

Cracking moment yesterday evening - playing a t18 friendly vs a beer team and we had them about 16-5 in 7 overs, and wickets kept falling on a damp. Time for some generous bowling so the game doesn't get ruined and a few of us took the job on of lobbing down some friendly stuff to get them up to a score. One lad who's new to the club and hasn't played any saturdays yet just didn't realise what was going on with the procession of blokes bowling longhops off two paces, starts going 'come on guys, stop bowling short, pitch it up! everyone chasing hard in the field!' etc etc. Poor lad, think he's quite competitive! Then he gets brought on and bowls an entire over pitching halfway down 😂

[Seniorplayer]

Who, when, where?
Footage of this must exist somewhere!

Verinder Sawag 2010 v SA to get morkel on strike first time it had happened in India
Pretty sure there was an earlier one though involving england

[NT50]

Their number 4 today was bowled swinging at a straight one, his bat came out of his hand and ended up being caught by our mid-on! He picked it up and said the grip was soaking wet!

(Also on the topic of village, their pitch! First ball from their spinner died in the pitch and didn't reach the stumps)

[Biggie Smalls]

What pitch ? All i see is grass and a crease line