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[Buzz]

Given a comment elsewhere on the basis that sharing a problem is the first step to overcoming it (yup that's right - self help now available on the CBF)

What to people say to you that frequently disturbs your concentration enough for you to give your wicket away.

this can be a comment, or in a case that I have experiences, not speaking to a batsman (nice guy, wouldn't stop gassing, and he was getting runs - so the wicket keeper and I stopped talking and remained silent - he was out after an over of the "cold shoulder" and asked why we stopped talking to him in the bar afterwards!!)

or when a ball is thrown at you.

In my case I get really irritated if, after one of my usual early play and misses some bright spark shoulds - "here we go, here for a good time, not a long time" grrr I can feel my blood boil as I type this!!

what puts you off!!???

[Ryan]

Well you wouldn't like playing against me and simmy. We say that all the time early on in an innings lol.

[roco]

Old clubs umpire farting all the time would put me off

Other than that not much

[tushar sehgal]

I had a bad year last year with the bat, a few innings it was consistently 3-4 balls and i was out...so then when i finally started to stick in the guys behind the stump started counting the balls and keeping me informed of how many i had played and taken away from the next inning, boy did that really get to me...i stay calm/cool on the field even though i was feeling the pressure...

another thing that happened around the same time was ppl starting point out that i had more bats than the runs i was scoring or the balls i was playing each inning...anyways have since then buckled down and hoping to do some damage this year with bat and to their heads when i am bowling...

[Buzz]

another thing that happened around the same time was ppl starting point out that i had more bats than the runs i was scoring or the balls i was playing each inning...

Petehosk gets to laugh off that statement... most people can score about 150 in fewer balls than the number of bats he has  !

[scottish_slogger95]

Last season I was batting as a tail ender in a match. First ball I get a quick beamer to my face and I have to duck I get up to find the bowler staring me out and he said " I will give you two options I will either break your face with more beamers or you can do the decent thing and get out" Made me so angry that I tried to demolish his next ball that was a slower ball and it ended up hiting middle stump. Never been so mad!

[tushar sehgal]

Petehosk gets to laugh off that statement... most people can score about 150 in fewer balls than the number of bats he has  !

Haha its an interesting problem to have isn't it , I am not Hosk's level and got guilted into getting rid almost all my gear, lot of my own team mates used to point to that... i think they all had ulterior motives considering they snapped my bats quickly..

[ajm90]

I dont really get put off by sledging apart from the funny stuff in sunday cricket, its hard to bat well when your laughing

[ProWannabe88]

I fall into the other category with this as I'm the annoying arsehole at cover or under the lid that never shuts up. I will keep at a batsmen until he bites then just drop it after laughing at them of course  strangely enough I don't get a lot of grief when I bat

[Burdy]

''big shot coming'', ''pressure on this guy'', or the one that gets on my nerves for some real unknown reason is ''im backing my bowler here''.

[tommo256]

Gone fishing really grinds my teeth

[Simmy]

"big shots coming" i here that all time

then boooooom it usually does haha

for me its not really what they say its  who says it

ill take some stick of cricketers but nowt worse than getting some abuse of some young kid who is a nobody

like last year in the cup. i went into bat and there young keeper says to me"was your keeper away today?"

i was like a. you play div2 b, i dunno who u are c, check the league website lad ull see my name lol

[Burdy]

"big shots coming" i here that all time

then boooooom it usually does haha

for me its not really what they say its  who says it

ill take some stick of cricketers but nowt worse than getting some abuse of some young kid who is a nobody

like last year in the cup. i went into bat and there young keeper says to me"was your keeper away today?"

i was like a. you play div2 b, i dunno who u are c, check the league website lad ull see my name lol

I agree totally, even worse when the person giving the mouth is someone who got nothing with the bat or provided some 'buffet' bowling. They are normally the ones who give send off's.

[Liam-SCCC]

I don't think my batting gets affected by what people say? Mostly it's myself that affects my batting, get angry with myself, lose my concentration and usually get out.

It's mainly just friendly banter with the opposition, had one last year where the bowler got one to jag back and cut me in half. I smiled and he did the fidel Edwards hand in front of face thing, next back I smashed a four through cover, didn't run just looked at him, smiled and said 'I saw that one!'

You do of course get the odd dickhead. Got really angry last season, in the first over there was an appeal for caught behind against me, I usually walk but was unsure I'd hit it. The finger went up and I walked off without querying it. Their keeper then ran up to me and called me a cheat, right in my face. That guy really does have some issues though, he played in a charity 6 a side tournament in memory for one of our old coaches and players. He got out to a rather rubbish bowler and threw hit bat down and shouted at himself, everyone else laughed at him!

[arc1983]

For no apparent reason 'join the dots up' after 5 dot balls always annoys me.

The one I had last year which made me laugh was 'seatbelts on, this one can't drive'.