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[400notout]

Personal favourite is when someones going well / finding the boundary regularly, just a quiet word in their ear about whether they breathe in or out when hitting the ball. Seen that throw a couple of rhythms off occasionally.

[uknsaunders]

Personal favourite is when someones going well / finding the boundary regularly, just a quiet word in their ear about whether they breathe in or out when hitting the ball. Seen that throw a couple of rhythms off occasionally.

That falls into the category of clever chirps and something that should be part of the game, if you want to play mind games. Why waste 100 pointless words when a subtle comment can do far more damage.

[19reading87]

2 weeks ago the oppo said whilst I was batting

"This lad easily looks their best player"

Next ball I snicked off! Complementing obviously works too

[MD2812]

I like when 1 batsman is scoring, and the other is blocking dots to put the pressure on the scoring batsman. Mention to our team how he's got to do all the work if he wants to chase down the total etc.

Did it once, next ball batsman had an absolute mow straight to mid on. Who then dropped it.

[uknsaunders]

This isn't regularly remembered, last month I was called a liar, a cheat, sledged, sworn at and abused for 2 hours because I didn't walk for an edge I genuinely didn't hear or feel, which the umpire didn't see or hear but which two gobby slips were convinced of. I didn't get into an argument or even say anything to them, but a glance across the room at tea at the two of them seemed to let them know what I thought.

What people like @GarrettJ were talking about was trying to say something to get an advantage, what's the point of giving someone hell who didn't walk? Because you hate them? Justice? Seems a bit childish to me.

I haven't walked on a couple of occasions, been happy to let the umpire decide. I figure you get so many rough decisions that if you get away with the odd one then so be it. @Maverick79 got a shocker last Saturday, smashed onto the pad off the inside edge and our ump at square leg heard it. Yet the oppo aren't going to call him back and say it's not fair are they? It was there ump as well and it's the only thing he gave all day. 2 weeks before I was flashing at a lifting delivery, got a faint glove on it and the oppo's ump didn't give it so I stayed. Oppo had one word with me but were ok, it was their umpire after all!.

It's double standards really, they'll call you every name under the sun if you don't walk but expect you to walk off when they know you have hit it on an LBW.

[shamelessshaun]

Personal favourite is when someones going well / finding the boundary regularly, just a quiet word in their ear about whether they breathe in or out when hitting the ball. Seen that throw a couple of rhythms off occasionally.

Was used successfully by Eric Bristow when he asked fellow darters if they inhaled or exhaled on the release of each dart.

[Akewstick]

I haven't walked on a couple of occasions, been happy to let the umpire decide. I figure you get so many rough decisions that if you get away with the odd one then so be it. @Maverick79 got a shocker last Saturday, smashed onto the pad off the inside edge and our ump at square leg heard it. Yet the oppo aren't going to call him back and say it's not fair are they? It was there ump as well and it's the only thing he gave all day. 2 weeks before I was flashing at a lifting delivery, got a faint glove on it and the oppo's ump didn't give it so I stayed. Oppo had one word with me but were ok, it was their umpire after all!.

It's double standards really, they'll call you every name under the sun if you don't walk but expect you to walk off when they know you have hit it on an LBW.

I was actually talking about not walking because I really didn't believe I'd hit it. But I can see your point as well. Especially when these people who are so shocked and apalled by you not walking after an edge are usually the same types who'll appeal like crazy and scream in the umpires face for an LBW every time the ball touches the front pad.

[Cin88]

I'm generally silent whenever i'm on the field, which hasn't escaped the attention of pretty much everyone else out there. The groundsman, when I made my debut for my club's second XI, subjected me to a tea break long lecture on the fact that i'm quiet and I shouldn't be because "you're one of us now", if I had a pound of every time he's lectured me on some aspect of the game, i'd be a millionaire at the age of 21. The oppo tend to equate my silence with a lack of confidence in the field so it isn't uncommon for them to look for me and actively try to hit where i'm stood, something the team uses to their advantage by shouting "on your toes" to which i'll start jumping (star jumps and the like), it tends to make batsmen think twice about aiming for me. When i'm batting I generally keep quiet apart from the obvious calls for runs but I will turn and make some comments at the keeper if he's trying to have a joke with me, I don't mind when its good natured.

Sledging is discouraged in my league though, owing to some fairly ugly incidents in the last 18 months or so. We had a first team cup game abandoned this year because two of the oppo decided to go too far and then decided to bring out the handbags because someone in our first team decided to answer back.

[HallamKeeper]

I do think LBW is an anomaly that doesn't really work with honesty. You might have been out a few times previously and survived because of doubt in the umpire's mind. Then get a big inside edge and be out. I don't think these things even themselves out, some will get more luck than others or maybe we are all out more than we are given.

What do people do to persuade the umpire that the batsman is plumb? I think a good long shout, but not too often as to annoy the umpire. Also if I had started to go down leg I try to edge back so I'm right behind the stumps. Any other tips?

By the way, I don't often appeal if I'm not pretty convinced but I don't like to ruin a good appeal that I have misjudged so I do go up with the bowler on occasions too.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

This isn't regularly remembered, last month I was called a liar, a cheat, sledged, sworn at and abused for 2 hours because I didn't walk for an edge I genuinely didn't hear or feel, which the umpire didn't see or hear but which two gobby slips were convinced of. I didn't get into an argument or even say anything to them, but a glance across the room at tea at the two of them seemed to let them know what I thought.

What people like @GarrettJ were talking about was trying to say something to get an advantage, what's the point of giving someone hell who didn't walk? Because you hate them? Justice? Seems a bit childish to me.

I walk. Gentleman's game and all that. You always know when you hit it. There has only been once where I didn't and that wasn't on purpose, got a lifter which must have hit the tip of my thumb which made my hand come off the bat and punched myself in the box. I didn't have a clue what had happened and thought my hand must have slipped off the handle. Umpire didn't know, the bowler wasn't convinced. Slips and keeper weren't sure but the bell end at fine leg was convinced and started screaming obscenities across the field. It was only a couple of days later that I worked out what had probably happened. Luckily the bowler was a mate of mine from Uni so I tapped him up to apologise and explain.

The problem is we umpire ourselves, so your mate umpiring isn't going to call you a liar infront of the oppo and say you hit that, get off. Had people hit the cover off it before and not walked numerous times, I don't make a habit of going nuts at every noise little noise.

I once took a catch in front of first slip from a ball that was just outside the off stump, it honestly changed direction by miles. Batsman didn't walk and his mate didn't give it. The batsman was then bowling for them when I was batting and of course I nicked one. My instant thought as it left the bat was 'Am I hell going walk for this' until I looked back and saw third slip pouch it. Was still sorely tempted though.
 

[jamielsn15]

I only get involved if someone's knowingly not walked for nicking off.  I can't abide cheating in any walk of life.  But even then I don't get nasty, nothing beyond 'your mother must be very proud' that kind of thing.

When batting I've found I'm best in my zone if I let them talk and I don't get involved.  I'll have the odd bit of friendly banter with the keeper if he's standing up but that's about it, but always on my terms.

I've got team mates who will chirp at anyone, to be honest at times its just embarrassing - I rip my team mates more than any oppo.  That said, we have one guy who's brilliant.  Goes in at cover and is never nasty, but very, very funny

[Akewstick]

When batting I've found I'm best in my zone if I let them talk and I don't get involved.  I'll have the odd bit of friendly banter with the keeper if he's standing up but that's about it, but always on my terms.

This is exactly what I think, I bat best when I'm thinking about what I'M doing and my own methods rather than thinking about the bowler and what he's doing, and therefore if someone's giving me grief and I block them out and blank them and just look at my bat, look at the pitch, think about batting in order to ignore him, it helps me get into that head space, that the other team are just an irrelevant detail in the "me" show.

[Seniorplayer]

Dont say anything when the opposition is batting and completely ignore the opposition distraction comments when I am batting at the start of the innings when   the opposition comments are usually in full flow i just say to myself  right I'll grind out the runs and wear you lot down  after around 15 overs of me at the crease they normally shut up.

[ProCricketer1982]

Talking to me while batting gets zero response. It just makes me think, I'll shut them up and bore them. Usually works a treat too.

I've never found it affects me in the slightest and once I'm in and comfy I just agree with them with everything. Again, kills them stone dead.

At the end of the day, he up your team mates etc but leave oppos alone. No one is there to get abused or shouldn't be there to abuse. What one enjoys, the one being abused might not. Grow up and just play cricket, have fun, leave oppos alone and have a pint afterwards. It is only amateur cricket after all, whether you think you are good etc.. Irrelevant really

[addidasf55]

I go with the line of I also bowl first change.
I'm six foot... That usually shuts em up.