Your Worst Cricket Experiences

[Hbk4894]

Can be either playing or watching

 

[Shri]

Being hyped up as a good bat and getting pinged in the temple by your college rival first ball in a tennis ball match. Only to get caught in the boundary next ball.

 

[honestbharani]

Telling Ur fiancee that u r gng to bat and ll call back in a couple of hours, chip Ur first ball straight to mid-wicket's hands and call back less than 2 mins after u hung up.


True story as my Mrs. will attest to.

 

[vcs]

Telling Ur fiancee that u r gng to bat and ll call back in a couple of hours, chip Ur first ball straight to mid-wicket's hands and call back less than 2 mins after u hung up.


True story as my Mrs. will attest to.

There's a Maggi joke in there somewhere.

 

[Bijed]

Comically running out my partner in the first game I played for my work team (the first game I'd played at all since I was about 13) was somewhat embarrassing and began a quite weird passage of play where we suffered 4 dire run-outs in 2-3 overs.

 

[indiaholic]

Excellent work on the Lexicon pdf, Bijed!

 

[Shri]

Yeah man. Good work. You should promote it.

 

[Bijed]

Excellent work on the Lexicon pdf, Bijed!

Yeah man. Good work. You should promote it.

Thanks!

 

[Burgey]

Telling Ur fiancee that u r gng to bat and ll call back in a couple of hours, chip Ur first ball straight to mid-wicket's hands and call back less than 2 mins after u hung up.


True story as my Mrs. will attest to.

Had something similar a few weeks back when our game was getting tight. We were defending an ordinary total but the other lot kept losing wickets. Our keeper (dickhead of the highest order) was carrying on and sledging in his usual manner which understandably was getting the batsman agitated. I'd told the keeper to stfu but he kept going.

Anyway, next thing the batsman backs away and started taking his gloves off. Turns out, because this is village stuff, he'd left his (now ringing) phone in his pocket and was giving it to the umpire.

Naturally, being the helpful bloke I am I delivered a very old joke and said "Just tell her you won't be long". **** went ballistic at me! Couldn't believe it. Anyway, he nicked off next ball, which made the whole thing pretty ****ing funny.

 

[adub]

Come on, surely the worst for everyone is getting hit on the box by some innocuous medium pacer and hitting the deck like you've been shot and completely unable to stand up again for about 5 minutes.

or is that just me?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Posted about this in a similar thread, but here it is again.

Lightning bolt kills batsman - www.smh.com.au

I was only 18 at the time, it was surreal. It sounded like the ****ing world exploded. People always asked why they didn't go off but the storm wasn't even close, there was some lightning off in the distance but there was a solid 10-15 seconds between lightning and thunder and it was some distance away. Such an unlucky thing to happen.

Don't think I've ever posted about it on CW before. Seems weird, as it would've been pretty fresh still when I'd joined.

 

[Daemon]

Way to lighten up the thread

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, shocking

 

[Shri]

It literally has the word 'worst' in the title. What did you expect?

 

[fredfertang]

My first day at a Test match - had to get up at 7.00am for the sixty mile drive to Manchester, got there and it pissed down all day - there was never even an inspection but we hung around till tea when they called it off

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah, shocking

you bastard

 

[Shri]

My reflexes weren't too fast. I didn't catch it.

 

[mr_mister]

every dropped catch ever