Annoying wicket celebrations

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Brett Lee cranking up the chainsaw

Imran Tahir's victory lap

The weird thumb thing that England did for a while

Yours, please.

 

[Daemon]

Sreesanth slamming the ground

Champion dance/Gangnam

 

[Burgey]

On the slamming the ground thing. Not exactly a wicket celebration but I recall playing against a bloke who dropped a pretty difficult caught and bowled in his follow through, after which he was sprawled our next to the pitch and punched the turf in anger, fracturing two knuckles on his bowling hand and had to be taken straight to hospital.

 

[Burgey]

And yeah, Brett Lee’s chainsaw was ****ing ridiculous, especially when he did it after being carted around the park because he either bowled too short or too full, then eventually cleaned up a number ten. WAC he is.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's more a send-off than a proper celebration but still

 

[Athlai]

Tahir's is probably the one that I hated the most

 

[Starfighter]

Almost anything these days, but especially any really exuberant celebration from a catch at deep midwicket off a slog from a number nine.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Brett Lee was the worst though. I think there was one time he got Sachin/VVS after he'd scored around 2 million and Lee did a fancy pirouette and did the old heel clicking celebration. Was ridiculous to watch.

 

[S.Kennedy]

The Islamic prayer celebration does not go down too well among the old blokes at county grounds these days. Tahir did it for Derbyshire last season after a five-for and it produced a few more than audible quibbles from the crowd.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Hold on....I always thought that Brett Lee was doing a move of that of an MMA fighter.

 

[vcs]

How annoying you find a celebration basically depends upon how much you dislike the bowler/team.

 

[Gnske]

Any of Shamsi's celebrations.

In comparison, I've become a fan of Hazlewood's stick-up-the-arse fist-pump he does.

 

[harsh.ag]

Am a fan of ostentatious wicket celebrations tbh. Bowlers only get a couple a game on average and should make most of it imo.

 

[harsh.ag]

Having said that:

 

[bagapath]

The Islamic prayer celebration does not go down too well among the old blokes at county grounds these days. Tahir did it for Derbyshire last season after a five-for and it produced a few more than audible quibbles from the crowd.

None of the religious gestures work for me anyways. The kneeling down, crossing, thanking the sun etc.. these people fail to understand that this makes them look a little silly on a sporting field - linking an imaginary grand divine plan to their minuscule achievement on a playground that means nothing to mankind at large.

 

[SteveNZ]

Shane Watson.

Matt McEwen dabbed last week, that was pretty horrendous. Dab has been dead for years, and even then it was only kept alive by 10 year old boys.

 

[S.Kennedy]

None of the religious gestures work for me anyways. The kneeling down, crossing, thanking the sun etc.. these people fail to understand that this makes them look a little silly on a sporting field - linking an imaginary grand divine plan to their minuscule achievement on a playground that means nothing to mankind at large.

All part of a divine plan to play for Derbyshire County.

 

[Dendarii]

Am a fan of ostentatious wicket celebrations tbh. Bowlers only get a couple a game on average and should make most of it imo.

I'd much rather they go for an over the top celebration than giving the batsman a send-off. I'm definitely not a fan of those.

 

[Heboric]

The hackers hack Andrew Flintoff with the 'look at me' pose. Afridi did it as well.

Philander sometimes does this almost non celebration thing which can get irritating

For batsmen David Warner, one day he is going to pull something

 

[vcs]

I liked Flintoff's celebration. It works with his personality. OTOH, if Stuart Broad or Ravindra Jadeja tried that, it would just look crap.