Repulsed by this storyI remember as a kid going to watch our club's A grade side play the final. They were chasing 210 to win and were 9/150 with numbers 10 and 11 at the crease. They started to put on a few runs, and our supporters, of which there were a few hundred, started to get a bit excited. Eventually with the score on about 190 or so and the crowd going nuts, our number 10 hits this massive high catch from the bowling of the other team's skipper, who was a star import having been a gun first grade spinner for many years. He hit it in the direction of a young kid at mid on who was playing his first year of A grade for the opposition. The poor kid dropped it and our team went on to win.
The captain from the other side absolutely sprayed this kid (rightly so) and the young bloke never played cricket again. It was pretty awful to watch, but it did serve the purpose of weeding out the weak before they established themselves at his club.
yeah real top bloke lolI remember as a kid going to watch our club's A grade side play the final. They were chasing 210 to win and were 9/150 with numbers 10 and 11 at the crease. They started to put on a few runs, and our supporters, of which there were a few hundred, started to get a bit excited. Eventually with the score on about 190 or so and the crowd going nuts, our number 10 hits this massive high catch from the bowling of the other team's skipper, who was a star import having been a gun first grade spinner for many years. He hit it in the direction of a young kid at mid on who was playing his first year of A grade for the opposition. The poor kid dropped it and our team went on to win.
The captain from the other side absolutely sprayed this kid (rightly so) and the young bloke never played cricket again. It was pretty awful to watch, but it did serve the purpose of weeding out the weak before they established themselves at his club.
Jayasuriya did this to a kid when he played a random t20 series here. He plays for Singapore now though so luckily it didn't have any lasting damage.I remember as a kid going to watch our club's A grade side play the final. They were chasing 210 to win and were 9/150 with numbers 10 and 11 at the crease. They started to put on a few runs, and our supporters, of which there were a few hundred, started to get a bit excited. Eventually with the score on about 190 or so and the crowd going nuts, our number 10 hits this massive high catch from the bowling of the other team's skipper, who was a star import having been a gun first grade spinner for many years. He hit it in the direction of a young kid at mid on who was playing his first year of A grade for the opposition. The poor kid dropped it and our team went on to win.
The captain from the other side absolutely sprayed this kid (rightly so) and the young bloke never played cricket again. It was pretty awful to watch, but it did serve the purpose of weeding out the weak before they established themselves at his club.
He now plays for Singapore. That is lasting damage.Jayasuriya did this to a kid when he played a random t20 series here. He plays for Singapore now though so luckily it didn't have any lasting damage.
Very costly drop, this. CW has suffered ever since.An argument can be made for the fact that I never truly recovered after being dropped on my head when I was less than a year old.
Well I was going to mention the Space shuttle challenger disaster of 1986 now you mention if, but thought better of it.Dropped a coffee mug this morning just before I was about to leave the house. Pieces of ceramic everywhere. No good.
i already made that joke about sledger in this thread ya buttheadVery costly drop, this. CW has suffered ever since.
Interesting choice of insult here. If a butthead was dropped as a child, he would probably bounce right back up.i already made that joke about sledger in this thread ya butthead
Only 2s cricket in England so order of magnitude lower standard but one of our fast bowlers, the type who rocks up late with a hangover and his entire personality is based around his cocaine addiction, absolutely destroyed a 14 year old who dropped a simplish catch at mid wicket. Our captain sent him off the field and told him to never come back. We ended up getting destroyed (the other team lent us a fielder but we were a good bowler down) but it was well worth it.I remember as a kid going to watch our club's A grade side play the final. They were chasing 210 to win and were 9/150 with numbers 10 and 11 at the crease. They started to put on a few runs, and our supporters, of which there were a few hundred, started to get a bit excited. Eventually with the score on about 190 or so and the crowd going nuts, our number 10 hits this massive high catch from the bowling of the other team's skipper, who was a star import having been a gun first grade spinner for many years. He hit it in the direction of a young kid at mid on who was playing his first year of A grade for the opposition. The poor kid dropped it and our team went on to win.
The captain from the other side absolutely sprayed this kid (rightly so) and the young bloke never played cricket again. It was pretty awful to watch, but it did serve the purpose of weeding out the weak before they established themselves at his club.