As a follow up to the most "village" thing you've seen thread, I started thinking about the tantrums I've seen over cricket. One of these is fairly recent, while another still gets a laugh to this day.
What is the biggest/best/funniest tantrum you've seen/had during a game.
My top 3 are:
Myself getting an Audi badge!
This was last season, and I am not proud of this
Having got my fourth quacker in a row I went into the dressing room with my teammates all pissing themselves laughing. Seeing this made my mood worse.
I went in an calmly placed my kit on the bench. Disappointed by the lack of bat/helmet throwing a teammate walked in to see why I hadn't thrown a paddy, just in time to see me "Ben Stokes" the door
There are still knuckle marks in the door to this day! As for me I needed medical attention to get one of my knuckles back in the right place. Since that day I haven't assaulted any innocent doors and just laugh when I get out now. Shame it took injuring myself to realise it's just a game (and I'm not very good at it!)
Brothers!
We have a family of 4 play for us, the dad (in his early 50s) and 3 sons (20 year old twins and an 18 year old). They were all in the same team one week. Going into the game the twins were both on the same number of wickets.
Due to getting 4 people and their bags in a Vauxhall Corsa being almost impossible, the mother took two of them to the game. One of the twins dropped a catch off of... The other twins bowing! He'd already taken a wicket so was one ahead too.
The dad and two of the brothers came back to the club in the Corsa, the other twin had to be taken home to calm down, having (apparently) tried to strangle his brother for "dropping that on purpose" and had then been waiting in the changing rooms with a bat!
It's stories like that make me wish I'd been there!
People still get a "I'm going to do a (insert family name here) on you for that dropped catch" once the bowler has calmed down enough to make a joke.
And my personal favourite, this was only a couple of weeks ago.
There's a bit of a back story to this one which adds to the humour.
In the first innings one of our guys took "a catch" off what appeared to be a bump ball. He claimed he'd taken it and their umpire gave the batsman out.
Fast forward to the 2nd innings, and the guy who took the catch is out in be exact same way, and guess who the fielder was! (The cricketing gods work in mysterious ways). He starts walking and gets to the square leg umpire and says "did that carry". The fielding side point out he's started walking so should go away, to which the umpire agrees.
In a temper he throws his glove, and it somehow goes behind him, next to the crowd of players celebrating the wicket. He has to walk back (to more verbals) and instead of picking the glove up, he hits it with his bat. We counted 11 shots to get off the pitch, it was both funny to watch and an embarrassment to the club at the same time.
And there have been a few impressions done every week at training since!
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