The costliest drops and misfields of all time

[wpdavid]

Haddin dropping Root first test at Cardiff.

Catch that and it could have been a series changer.

Great call.

 

[Slifer]

Easy, Courtney Browne dropping Steve Waugh off of Kenny Benjamin during the 4th and deciding test in the 1995 test series between the West Indies and Australia. Steve Waugh I think was dropped on 60 odd and would go on to put on a series winning partnership with Mark. Oz would eventually go on to win the test and series and become the first team in 15 years to beat the WI. Also, they became the first team since 1973 to beat the WI in the Caribbean.

Damn I hate Courtney Browne lol

 

[Burgey]

Probably anyone who dropped Bradman early in an innings.

Fmd, imagine sitting under a high ball from one of the atgs and knowing if you drop the ****er they'll more than likely just pile it on infinitely.

 

[Daemon]

Probably anyone who dropped Bradman early in an innings.

Fmd, imagine sitting under a high ball from one of the atgs and knowing if you drop the ****er they'll more than likely just pile it on infinitely.

Very negative attitude that, and one that poor fielders generally have.

As someone who is a top class fielder myself, I'd be excited that upon taking the catch heading towards me, the prospect of having to field for the whole day diminishes.

 

[Burgey]

It's not a negative attitude, it's a reflection that you know the importance of what it is you're doing, and have a sense of where the game is at.

 

[honestbharani]

IN a league final, I took 6 catches and none were really straight forward. Yet I dropped the top scorer off what was the easiest chance (guy went for a pull, top edge lobbed up so so slowly to me) and we lost by 15 runs... What he made after I had dropped him. I remember what my captain said after the game - you were goin; to be man of the match till you dropped that dolly. As a keeper, I hate the ones that go high and come so so slowly. It is ridiculously easy to take those with the gloves as long as you have a reasonable ability to judge the trajectory but damn it gives your mind time to think of all sorts of things...

 

[Daemon]

It's not a negative attitude, it's a reflection that you know the importance of what it is you're doing, and have a sense of where the game is at.

I dunno, for skiers I've always found that the only time I've dropped them is when I've entertained the thought of dropping it.

 

[SteveNZ]

Speaking of McCullum, his dropping of Dravid in the '03 WC game was one of the most *** annoying at the time... India were only chasing around 150 IIRC, but if could have been 22-4 when Dravid was put down with a regulation edge to the keeper.

Ugh, I remember this. Bond steaming in, regulation half slash edge to McCullum who absolutely clanged it.

Mind you, same thing happened to Stephen Fleming in the same tournament. Regulation edge to Boucher who dropped an absolute sitter, and Fleming/McMillan/someone else I can't remember got us home easily in a rain-reduced what was originally 300odd.

 

[Jono]

Very negative attitude that, and one that poor fielders generally have.

As someone who is a top class fielder myself, I'd be excited that upon taking the catch heading towards me, the prospect of having to field for the whole day diminishes.

Who is better, Daemon the fielder or Scaly the scrabble player?

 

[vcs]

Easy, Courtney Browne dropping Steve Waugh off of Kenny Benjamin during the 4th and deciding test in the 1995 test series between the West Indies and Australia. Steve Waugh I think was dropped on 60 odd and would go on to put on a series winning partnership with Mark. Oz would eventually go on to win the test and series and become the first team in 15 years to beat the WI. Also, they became the first team since 1973 to beat the WI in the Caribbean.

Damn I hate Courtney Browne lol

Courtney Browne dropped an absolute clanger off Sachin in WC '96 also. I think it was him, anyway.

 

[Burgey]

Who is better, Daemon the fielder or Scaly the scrabble player?

Tougher question is who is more popular?

 

[Zinzan]

Ugh, I remember this. Bond steaming in, regulation half slash edge to McCullum who absolutely clanged it.

Mind you, same thing happened to Stephen Fleming in the same tournament. Regulation edge to Boucher who dropped an absolute sitter, and Fleming/McMillan/someone else I can't remember got us home easily in a rain-reduced what was originally 300odd.

Yup, just after he reached his 50 IIRC. McMillan opened in that game and shared a decent opening stand with Flem, but it was Flem and Astle's partnership who sealed a relatively easy win by 9 wickets under Duckworth L.

 

[Daemon]

Tougher question is who is more popular?

Clearly the guy with 17 CW game titles to his name

 

[Xuhaib]

IN a league final, I took 6 catches and none were really straight forward. Yet I dropped the top scorer off what was the easiest chance (guy went for a pull, top edge lobbed up so so slowly to me) and we lost by 15 runs... What he made after I had dropped him. I remember what my captain said after the game - you were goin; to be man of the match till you dropped that dolly. As a keeper, I hate the ones that go high and come so so slowly. It is ridiculously easy to take those with the gloves as long as you have a reasonable ability to judge the trajectory but damn it gives your mind time to think of all sorts of things...

I once dropped 3 catches in a KO game but caught a stunner of a bloke 2nd ball who had just murdered us in the league game.

 

[Furball]

Was going to go for Giles dropping Ponting at Adelaide.

Probably wouldn't have made much difference to the series but you never know. Australia would have been in deep trouble responding to England's 551, and had England been able to force a win at Adelaide who knows how the series might have panned out, particularly as England had recovered reasonably well from the shock of the 1st innings at Brisbane. Losing that Tesr knocked the stuffing out of the side.

 

[Shri]

I dunno, for skiers I've always found that the only time I've dropped them is when I've entertained the thought of dropping it.

Or when you misjudge the swirl or when it has been drizzling.

 

[ImpatientLime]

that giles drop made even more brilliant for the fact he was in the side over panesar for his superior batting and fielding.

shame about his ********* bowling.

 

[Slifer]

Courtney Browne dropped an absolute clanger off Sachin in WC '96 also. I think it was him, anyway.

Yeah it was the aforementioned Browne again.

 

[Top_Cat]

Easy, Courtney Browne dropping Steve Waugh off of Kenny Benjamin during the 4th and deciding test in the 1995 test series between the West Indies and Australia. Steve Waugh I think was dropped on 60 odd and would go on to put on a series winning partnership with Mark. Oz would eventually go on to win the test and series and become the first team in 15 years to beat the WI. Also, they became the first team since 1973 to beat the WI in the Caribbean.

Damn I hate Courtney Browne lol

This was massive.

 

[Burgey]

Gibbs dropping Waugh in the 99 WC super six game was massive as well.