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[tommo256]

Ive batted quite often with my cap back to front, but im a G

[WalkingWicket37]

Ive batted quite often with my cap back to front, but im a G

I've seen someone bowling, and instead of taking their cap off they just turned it back to front, I couldn't decide if they looked like a G, or like a 'G Spot' 

[MD2812]

Surrey 2XI Div 1 weekend before last

Batsman number 3 comes out with a left and right handed batting glove, lots of thumb padding rather than none.

I noticed cos 1 was red branded GN, the other green branded Kook! Not even subtle.

He got some chat

[Lumsden]

Reading some of these anecdotes has reminded me of a couple of funny incidents .

A lad around of 14-15 playing for the opposition in a Sunday friendly was supposed to be fielding at long off but was actually stood right behind the bowler so in front of the sight screen. Someone tells him to move a few yards to his left and next over from that end, the ball is hit straight past the bowler and youngster moves around but then stops dead in tracks next to the sight screen and the ball dribbles over boundary. For a few seconds everyone is speechless and bowler wanders off to investigate what the problem is as the young lad is still stood there and hasn't retrieved the ball. It turns out that the young lad had been instructed he could not field in front of the sight screen so had taken that instruction literally. 

Another time I was playing the first league match of the season and from 55-5, the next pair put on an unbeaten 197 partnership meaning we ended up 252-5 off 45 overs. In reply the opposition lost wickets regularly and we needed 2 more for victory when our leg spinner came on to bowl but he hadn't been to any nets in the winter so rusty was an understatement. First ball was a waist height full toss which the batsman pulled magnificently but straight to the only fielder on the leg side boundary and was caught. However the next delivery was even worse, came out all wrong, bowler even apologised while ball was still in the air and it sailed over the batsman's head but landed almost vertically on the stumps. Obviously a clear no-ball, most of us were laughing and a couple of us close fielders attended the stumps then spotted the umpire (at the bowling end) already half way to the club house with the stumps from that end under his arm. It then transpires that the umpire was the batsman's father and was chased off the field by his son whilst the rest of us were simply standing there not knowing quite what to do. After about a minute, neither umpire or batsman returned so we just walked off having won the game but truly bizarre end to the match.     

[RoyalParkReds]

First story involves a wicket keeper that chases a leg side wide delivery down to the fence and while putting his gloves back on after the long chase and throw the bowler has quickly  delivered the next delivery which is wide outside off and goes for 4 byes with the keeper only half way back from the fence screaming at the bowler and throwing his equipment down o the ground.


Second story involves a 9 man slip field in which the batsman hits it to the bowler and runs out his partner.


God I love cricket.

[TangoWhiskey]

Second story involves a 9 man slip field in which the batsman hits it to the bowler and runs out his partner.

Haha we had one similar on a tour game in Malta. We had the bowler and a cover, everyone else in the slips. The batsman had literally the whole of Malta to hit it, but slapped his first ball straight at cover. He then proceded to swear very loudly and storm off whilst throwing his bat towards the pavilion, so one would guess he didn't mean to do it.

[mattcoll12491]

We once played against a team where their number 3 batsman went for a lap of the pitch (fully padded up, with their bat) and a wicket fell when he was half way round the pitch and he just walked on...

[Bats_Entertainment]

I've seen someone bowling, and instead of taking their cap off they just turned it back to front, I couldn't decide if they looked like a G, or like a 'G Spot' 

Geoff Boycott used to do this!

[Bats_Entertainment]

The other week, I saw a park game in which a 'wide' was hit for four. Not sure if we can count this, as those playing couldn't possibly have been regular cricketers?

I also played in a game recently where the 'umpire' signalled the same same ball wide and byes.

Bowler using his jumper a run-up marker?

[Rob580]

Geoff Boycott used to do this!

Exactly, thats why he said he looked like a G! G for Geoffrey!

[Bats_Entertainment]

Exactly, thats why he said he looked like a G! G for Geoffrey!

OK. But there was none more professional, surely?

[Akewstick]

Lad left his gloves outside and during a rain break, one of them ended up under a chair and was dry and the other was soaked, he asked to borrow mine and I said of course, gave him my gloves and when he was out taking his guard noticed he was batting in one of his own blue adidas gloves and one of my flourescent yellow Gray Nicolls. I think he was trying to be polite but I did mean he could borrow both of them.

I've also seen a Sunday game with one saturday 1st teamer and all the others 3s/4s and lads and dads, so by far the best bat/bowler and fielder on the side and was put out the field on the cover boundary as sweeper since he could run twice as fast as anyone else and we were hitting a lot of boundaries. Between overs he went and got a chair out of the pavilion, put it just behind the boundary rope and sits on the chair watching the game right up until the batsman connects, for leg side shots he just stayed sitting on the chair and for off side shots he got up and chased the ball down and rocketed it back to the keeper. To make it worse, he didn't actually miss a single ball and stopped a sack full of boundaries, which made it even more annoying.

[Lumsden]

The other week, I saw a park game in which a 'wide' was hit for four. Not sure if we can count this, as those playing couldn't possibly have been regular cricketers?

A few years back I was playing in the local university staff league when an umpire turned around to signal a wide before the ball had even reached half way down the wicket. What happened next was the batsman made a valiant attempt to hit it, actually connected but only sent the ball vertical and the catch was taken by the keeper all while the umpire was still stood in opposite direction signalling wide. Umpire then insisted it was wide because he had given that first before the batsman hit it. As it happens, batsman was out very next ball caught at mid-off.

[TangoWhiskey]

A few years back I was playing in the local university staff league when an umpire turned around to signal a wide before the ball had even reached half way down the wicket. What happened next was the batsman made a valiant attempt to hit it, actually connected but only sent the ball vertical and the catch was taken by the keeper all while the umpire was still stood in opposite direction signalling wide. Umpire then insisted it was wide because he had given that first before the batsman hit it. As it happens, batsman was out very next ball caught at mid-off.

Haha that happened to me first game of the season. I was on 80 odd and batting well, I'd just smashed the bowler for two boundaries the first two balls. The third one he got all wrong, missed the track and bounced twice as it got to my end. I thought about leaving it for about half a second, before running at point to try and smash it to the boundary again. Swung my nuts off and got a horrible toey edge that looped up to backward point. Everyone was laughing, including myself, excluding the bowler who just had his head in his hands.

[steyn92]

Someone came out in Pink & Blue Adidas F50's to bat. He had a bit of chat and hopefully he won't do it again.