Worst ball you've ever seen take a wicket

[flibbertyjibber]

I can't tell if the ball is good or not but I will use any opportunity to post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pbFpNII8Q

Never seen that before, very good.

 

[listento_me]

Anything Jadeja bowls tbh

/thread

 

[Bijed]

Actually, I was expecting someone to have posted a link to Botham's cricinfo profile by now.

 

[SteveNZ]

I can't tell if the ball is good or not but I will use any opportunity to post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pbFpNII8Q

And made it even better by the fact it's a Kiwi, right? Haha, that is gold I hadn't seen before.

 

[Bijed]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1753852785471221780

Reposted from the match thread

 

[Jumno]

Sarwan short hop to Dravid 2006 and all he could do is get out cutting upwards to point.

 

[WICFan]

Dwayne Bravo managed to get out to Mark Boucher on the road that was the ARG.

Dwight Washington made his test debut in that game and played his last fc/list-a game a few months later.

 

[Chubb]

iirc some bloke in a T20 comp -- may have been English domestic -- basically mastered a double bounce yorker. As such, they promptly banned it in the playing conditions.

Yep, was Warwickshire: ECB outlaws double-bouncing delivery | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

When I saw the thread title I thought of the Nathan Dumelow delivery that inspired this idea.

He was a very average offie who played a couple of seasons for Derby in the early 00s, when they were really weak: just happened to bowl someone with a double bouncer in a televised game. Not just some rando either, Darren Stevens.

Can’t recall if I actually saw it happen on Sky or if it was shown during another match.

Ten years on from the banning of the double-bouncer, the innovation that never was | The Cricketer

Ten years on from the banning of the double-bouncer, the innovation that never was | The Cricketer, cricket news, county cricket, T20 cricket, Warwickshire, England cricket

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[Aidan11]

Technically not a bad ball but Read made it look awful.

 

[honestbharani]

I was once opening the batting for my team, and swept the first ball of the match, a full toss on my legs, straight back to the bowler. Needless to say, I have never again opened in any game since, even in my street or at the beach.

 

[Spark]

I was once opening the batting for my team, and swept the first ball of the match, a full toss on my legs, straight back to the bowler. Needless to say, I have never again opened in any game since, even in my street or at the beach.

I'm genuinely trying to work out how you even achieved this mechanically lol

 

[honestbharani]

I'm genuinely trying to work out how you even achieved this mechanically lol

I kinda wrote it to seem that way. It was just a top/leading edge lol.

 

[sledger]

That time Dwayne Bravo got out to the bowling of Mark Boucher immediately springs to mind.

 

[NZTailender]

Vaguely remember Mark Richardsons sole test wicket to be pretty rank

 

[SteveNZ]

Vaguely remember Mark Richardsons sole test wicket to be pretty rank

Memory serves it as either a low full toss or an HV, that Mohammad Yousuf spooned back to him?

HV. Well caught, too

 

[kevinw]

iirc, Richardson did start his career as a bowler, like KP. So it wasn't like he had no bowling ability.

 

[SteveNZ]

iirc, Richardson did start his career as a bowler, like KP. So it wasn't like he had no bowling ability.

Yes, but got the yips in a ridiculous way. His book details it in pretty agonising detail

 

[Line and Length]

I was once opening the batting for my team, and swept the first ball of the match, a full toss on my legs, straight back to the bowler. Needless to say, I have never again opened in any game since, even in my street or at the beach.

I can relate to this. In my first game of Club cricket I volunteered to open the batting. It was a disaster. Caught behind after being struck in the chest by a bouncer.
I was given a bowl and had just taken a wicket when the fellow who struck me and dismissed me came in. "Right!" I thought, "Time for revenge." The 'keeper went along with it when I extended my run-up (already excessive) and said he was going back a few yards because this would be fast. I charged in, intending to bowl a brute of a bouncer. Sensing this the batsman (well he was a lower order player) took a huge step to square leg as I was about to release. The ball slipped and became a rank (but fast) full toss which just hit the off bail with the batsman well out of range.
My next ball, for a hat trick, was far better but 3rd slip spilt the chance.