Your Favorite and Most Dreaded Cricketing Sights ...

[adharcric]

As ardent cricket lovers, we appreciate great displays of strokeplay, hostile spells of bowling and awe-inspiring catches in the field regardless of who is involved.

As cricketing fans, with loyalty towards a particular team perhaps, there are some sights that we truly enjoy and others that instill fear and anxiety in our minds.

So, what is your *favorite* and *most dreaded* sight in cricket today, or for the old-timers, in the cricket that you've witnessed?

fiery bowling by the west indian pacemen of old, viv richards murdering attacks, waqar ripping reverse-swinging yorkers, the english attack running through the aussies in the ashes, warne and murali generating ridiculous deliveries ... whatever you want

To start ...
favorite sights ... Yuvraj & Raina producing cracking off-side drives & Dhoni's innovative strokeplay in the slog overs
dreaded sights ... Asif moving the ball like crazy against Indian batsman & Sehwag trying to play short, incoming deliveries

I've made it obvious which team I support, but your choices don't have to indicate that; I love to watch Gilchrist and Symonds blast as well, just not against India

 

[GotSpin]

Favourite:

Warne bowling someone around the legs
MacGill getting hit for six
Sachin in mucho mode
Mcgrath scoring runs
Afridi going crazy

Dreaded:

The opp. of above

Im sure i like alot of other things, but you know...

 

[andyc]

Favourite:
Mcgrath scoring runs

Definitely! The fact that I didn't get to see McGrath's 50 is one of my biggest cricketing regrets.

 

[Smudge]

Definitely! The fact that I didn't get to see McGrath's 50 is one of my biggest cricketing regrets.

The fact McGrath's 50 was against New Zealand is one of my biggest cricketing regrets.

 

[honestbharani]

I certainly don't like to see matches being played in front of an empty Eden Gardens stadium.

 

[RolledOver]

fav's

1,Sehwag hammering Pak pacers, which is the norm!!
2, Dhoni going crazy
3 Munaf clean bowling the opponet with an express delivery.
4Inzi getting runout.

Dreaded:

1,The two Y's hammering Indian attack.
2,Afridi cutting loose
3,Hoggard mesmerizing our batsmen.

 

[Arjun]

FAVOURITE:

• Justin Kemp and Shaun Pollock smashing late-over sixes
• Batsmen having trouble getting Justin Kemp's deliveries away.
• Kaif and Raina pinching singles at will in the middle and late overs
• The Pollock-Ntini combination in action
• Dogs fetching the ball on the field

DREADED:

• Pigeons getting hit by flying balls
• Short-leg fielders getting injured by shots
• Brad Hogg taking five wickets against top batting sides
• Change the name to Agarkar
• Short boundaries in small grounds

 

[adharcric]

FAVOURITE:

• Justin Kemp and Shaun Pollock smashing late-over sixes
• Batsmen having trouble getting Justin Kemp's deliveries away.
• Kaif and Raina pinching singles at will in the middle and late overs
• The Pollock-Ntini combination in action
• Dogs fetching the ball on the field

DREADED:

• Pigeons getting hit by flying balls
• Short-leg fielders getting injured by shots
• Brad Hogg taking five wickets against top batting sides
• Change the name to Agarkar
• Short boundaries in small grounds

What's with the discrimination? Dogs fetch balls but pigeons can't take a blow?

 

[Arjun]

What's with the discrimination? Dogs fetch balls but pigeons can't take a blow?

Dogs still stay alive, in good health, and do it just for fun. I have no idea when it happened (late-80's or early-90's) but I saw a clip of that very long ago, in the early 90's. The other incident was in a Super Six match between India and Australia, when Ajay Jadeja lofted a Steve Waugh delivery and took down one pigeon.

 

[oz_fan]

Favourite
Lara 100's
Gilchrist, Jayasuriya rampaging
Most Dreaded
Mick Lewis ever bowling for Australia again.

 

[TT Boy]

Batsmen having trouble getting Justin Kemp's deliveries away.

When has that ever occurred?

 

[luckyeddie]

Favourite - Inzamam getting dismissed a few minutes before lunch. The dilemma is palpable. Does he:

a) Stroll off slowly, looking disappointed, and head straight for the restaurant with his pads on, confident that he will be first in the queue for lunch (and with bat to hand just in case Woolmer's got there first and there's only one treacle pudding)

b) Race off, heading for the dressing-room to shed his pads and box BEFORE heading straight for the restaurant, doubtful as to whether he will be first for lunch but still prepared to do battle with Woolmer if there's only one treacle pudding.

 

[open365]

Best
Micheal Vaughan playing well
KP doing the impossible
Harmison bowling like he cares

Worst
Vaughan playing badly
England playing one dayers
Rikki Clarke
Runouts where both players end up in the middle of the pitch

 

[Barney Rubble]

Best
KP taking on a bowler and winning
Brett Lee charging in and bowling at 95mph+
Shane Warne tying a batsman in knots
Sachin Tendulkar in full flow
Steve Harmison playing the reverse sweep
Matthew Hoggard playing an attacking stroke
Freddie celebrating a wicket in style

Worst
James Anderson walking out to the wicket
Shane Warne tying an English batsman in knots
Another trademark England batting collapse
England players getting injured
Ian Blackwell's international uselessness

 

[Zinzan]

Favourites........
A fit Shane Bond
McCullum in full flight
Afridi Cutting loose
A Stephen Fleming straight drive
Sehwag getting away (except against NZ)
Warne weaving his magic (except Vs NZ)
Pontings legside play (except Vs NZ)
Laras quick hands

Dreaded.............
Gilchrist and Hayden getting away with LBW's or generally having luck
Hamish Marshall as test opener
Bond being injured again
NZ's 2nd innings batting collapses in tests
James Franklin in ODI's and Kylle Mills in tests
Chris Martin under a catch
Graeme Smith smiling
Rain

 

[Langeveldt]

Favourite
A packed Wanderers/Newlands/St.Georges Park
Allan Donald steaming in
Andre Nel bowling with his mouth shut
Shane Warne bowling with his mouth shut
Fidel Edwards bowling well
Michael Vaughan in full flow
Any nice weekend day on the grass banks watching the cricket with a braai
Whenever Australia make one of their useless selection calls and get tapped

Dreaded
Any form of "mental breakdown" (IE cricketers whingeing like spoilt babies before a series)
The ICC's blundering and spineless control of many world affairs
The MCC just being pointless
Listening to the Twenty20 "DJ" mis-pronouncing the names of well known cricketers, and nobody noticing
Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[Goughy]

Favourite
- Fast bowlers hitting their straps and feeling the hairs on the back of my neck stand up (Lee, Shoiab and even Harmison on a good day)
- Quality quicks and determined batsmen indulging in modern trench warfare (eg Donald vs Atherton)
- Batsman treating spinners with the disrespect they deserve. "Oh, you bowl slow....fetch"
- Batsmen getting hit by a fast bowler
- Harmison batting (comedy pull shots)
- Seeing smaller nations eg Holland, Scotland, Ireland and Nepal progress. Makes me very happy
- Great and clever bowling (eg Cairns slower ball to Read where he ducked a 'beamer' but was actually yorked)
- Tests that last 5 days

Dreaded
- Andre Nel
- Steve Bucknor
- Indian crowds (a little too hectic and not enough personal space for my liking. I always worry that if someone has a contagious disease that tens of thousands will catch it)
- Batsmen who bat like they have ADD. Concentrate and build an innings rather than just bash the ball around.
- Politics, Politics, Politics

In all honesty there are thousands of good points and a fair few others I dont like but this is just off the top of my head.

 

[SpeedKing]

Favourite

-Shioab Ahktar's tantalizing slower balls,
-James Anderson running in, i don't know why
-Yuvraj Singh's straight drives. WOW. I wanna bat like that
-A good well contested game.
-Chris Gayle in full flow.
-Engalnd's fearsome foursome fit and hunting as a pack.

Dreaded

-MS Dhoni's slapshot for six. He can do it to any ball.
-Inzaman ul-Haq, Jaques Kallis and Rahul Dravid. Nasser hussien-like dtermination with alot of talent and not english

 

[SpeedKing]

fav's

1,Sehwag hammering Pak pacers, which is the norm!!
2, Dhoni going crazy
3 Munaf clean bowling the opponet with an express delivery.
4Inzi getting runout.

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That is a good one, priceless moments those are

 

[GotSpin]

Actually, i find it funny in a runout where the two batsmen end up in the middle.