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[Rob580]

I'm sorry, I don't have anything to add to this thread, but the Subject was doing my head in!

[meats]

I've never been dropped. Ever.

Every time I'm caught it's an absolute blinder.

That and I have an annoying habit of letting the ball hit the stumps.

As far as I can tell, the only reason I don't have a 1.9M pound IPL contract is crippling bad luck.

Haha sounds like a guy I used to play with!

He was never out LBW, everytime he was bowled it was a jaffa or the umpire was a cheat for not calling a no ball. He was deadly serious about this to the point where he would go and sulk for the rest of the game and into the evening in the bar too.

The worst part of it all is that he was a genuinely bad cricketer only playing 1s because no one else wanted to bat 11 and not bowl yet thought he was the best player in the league!

[Bats_Entertainment]

People who go to cricket once a year to get drunk are usually the best players never to do well. They know, because they said so.

James Vince is a fantastic player. Not only has he scored many thousand more first-class runs than any of us; he  has done so in a manner that makes him possibly the most attractive batsman to watch in the country.

Clearly he has a temperament issue at Test match level, but he wouldn't be the first.

[Seniorplayer]

Do most of the worst players play with worser players which makes them look good.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Do most of the worst players play with worser players which makes them look good.

Can also work the other way, funnily enough. As a relatively technically correct batsman, it's nice to know roughly where the ball might be pitching. Or at least the number of times it's going to bounce!

[Bats_Entertainment]

And imagine the fear associated with the possibility of getting out to a 14 year-old girl?

[ppccopener]

This is a very amusing thread!

 

[Bats_Entertainment]

Steve Smith quite possibly got one that rolled along the floor playing in someone's 3rds? You know, one that not even, er, Steve Smith could have kept out?

[Bats_Entertainment]

Now I think of it, imagine the fear of getting out to a 14 year-old girl, when using a GN 50+ with full matching softs?

[meats]

Steve Smith quite possibly got one that rolled along the floor playing in someone's 3rds? You know, one that not even, er, Steve Smith could have kept out?

Having played at the ground in question I can confirm the ground had better decks than a lot of first team pitches at the time, most definitely would not have rolled along the floor.

[iand123]

Evidently this is true.  When I was playing modest level league cricket in Kent in the mid 90s, Richie Richardson (who was a pretty decent bat  ) came to play a season for Lashings in the same league as us, when they were a "proper" club and not just playing charity games.  I didn't play against him but I recall that his returns were very poor and he said in an interview how difficult the pitches were for him.

Where did/do you live felix? I remember going to watch Richie i that season where he came to play against the team closest to where I grew up (New Ash Green)

[edge]

Seen plenty of pretty shocking looking players score big runs or people get lucky and ton up after being dropped 4 times early on or something, more power to them!
Who's to judge, particularly if someone scores a ton then go tell them well batted, that's what cricket's about isn't it. Worst fifty I've ever scored - on a dog of a pitch, I came in towards the end of an innings with us below par and slogged viciously, got dropped a bunch of times including a dolly on the shot that got me to 50, was amazed when the whole opposition generously applauded and a few even came to shake hands at the end of the innings and said how well I'd batted (even as the abuse rang out from my own team ha). Their sportsmanship made my day far more than the poor quality runs I'd scored, more games should be played that way.

[edge]

Worst looking player I've seen do well is easy - once put on 360 in a 45 over game, went in for tea feeling pretty happy with ourselves. Even more so when the oppo skipper opened batting like a right handed Chanderpaul, fully face on to the bowler in his stance. A chanceless 140odd* from him later to take the win and he didn't look so bad! Best innings I've ever seen in a game I've played in.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Just thinking about this is making my head hurt.

There was a county T20 game on TV last year in which a medium pacer (possibly Ravi Bopara) was, in the modern way, bowling 'pace off the ball' crazy variations, in order to frustrate the batsman. The commentator (possibly Nasser or Rob Key) suggested that the best way for a batsman to practise facing this type of bowling would be to go and play some club 3rd XI cricket.

[procricket]

all the people talk about technique smith got this got that look at the head just the head of players it will show you who has what.

Technique is mainly associated to body movement but in truth look at the head that's where the best players score there runs both inside and the usual stillness of the head.