Cricket Cheats Caught on Camera

[ankitj]

I think cheating for catches is great. It's such a risky trade off. You either get your man and laugh about it ever after or you get caught and your name is besmirched forever and you officially become a lesser person who probably farts on trains.

How does that make it great?

 

[Victor Ian]

It's exciting. You can not believe someone is having the audacity to claim it. So the oddity makes it great. It obviously is much harder to pull off nowadays.

 

[h_hurricane]

Langer the epitome of elite honesty

 

[h_hurricane]

Haddin ! what a tool..

 

[Aaron510]

U want to find some amazing cricket cheating videos? Just type Ricky ponting cheating in YouTube!! lol

u going to have to watch the entire day and u still a bunch of videos to watch lol ?

 

[h_hurricane]

Rodney Marsh bringing out a bit of football skills. Such a natural ..

 

[BoyBrumby]

This is Australia's dressing room

Oh, jeez that's cringe.

Smacks of Langer. Not a man tormented by how others perceive him, clearly.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

So we've got Australia, India, Pakistan, England, South Africa, West Indies.

Missing: New Zealand, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe. Can we find anything from them?

Various newer countries I'll say are too recent.

 

[Starfighter]

Not a man tormented by how others perceive him, clearly.

Yeah, unfortunately all us Australia supporters have to suffer second-hand embarrassment due to this.

 

[Line and Length]

This is less fun when we try and argue about who cheated worse. Can't we just all laugh at idiots like Matt Prior and Justin Langer who blatantly tried to pretend the batsman was bowled/hit wicket despite being surrounded by cameras?

That was precisely my intention when starting this thread. It certainly wasn't a case of wanting to pick on certain players/countries or to come up with arguments about who's the worst cheat.
I started with a couple of "catches" that were claimed and in that sort of situation, why couldn't the fielder simply appeal with an "I'm not sure," instead of throwing the ball up and celebrating?
They know when the ball has bobbled out of their hands but, in fairness, may not be sure it hits the ground, but to blatantly claim a clean catch when they know there is some doubt is wrong.

 

[Smudge]

taking a catch you know you've dropped and not saying anything when the ump gives it out, that's pretty Dyer

Luckily we Kiwis don't hold a grudge. I definitely don't spit in disgust every time I hear Greg Dyer's name. Definitely not.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

So we've got Australia, India, Pakistan, England, South Africa, West Indies.

Missing: New Zealand, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe. Can we find anything from them?

Various newer countries I'll say are too recent.

There was that Murali run out by McCullum, dunno if you call that cheating though.

 

[ataraxia]

So we've got Australia, India, Pakistan, England, South Africa, West Indies.

Missing: New Zealand, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe. Can we find anything from them?

Various newer countries I'll say are too recent.

Sri Lanka too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

There was that time they bowled the underarm at the poor Australians

Sri Lanka too.

Is chucking considered cheating if it was allowed by the umpires?

 

[vandem]

There was that Murali run out by McCullum, dunno if you call that cheating though.

IIRC the Murali run out was more like poor sportmanship but inside the rules, similar to a run out after the batter was barged down by the bowler or a "mankad" run out no previous warning and an extra stutter by the bowler which is just slight enough to be ignored by the 3rd umpire.

 

[DriveClub]

IIRC the Murali run out was more like poor sportmanship but inside the rules, similar to a run out after the batter was barged down by the bowler or a "mankad" run out no previous warning and an extra stutter by the bowler which is just slight enough to be ignored by the 3rd umpire.

Tbh the 2nd test felt like revenge of some sort when the kiwis were battered by malinga and murali.

 

[DriveClub]

Tbh the 2nd test felt like revenge of some sort when the kiwis were battered by malinga and murali.

Sorry OT not related to this thread

 

[Blenkinsop]

Not cheating, exactly, but the most brassy of brass necks ever:

 

[Immenso]

IIRC the Murali run out was more like poor sportmanship but inside the rules, similar to a run out after the batter was barged down by the bowler or a "mankad" run out no previous warning and an extra stutter by the bowler which is just slight enough to be ignored by the 3rd umpire.

Nothing like a batsman being barged or impeded. More like a mankad.

Cricket is a test of skill, fitness and concentration. To run out of your crease as the ball is only leaving the boundary thrower's arm is a severe case of lack of concentration. Rightly punished, IMO. But, I'm not impartial.

Wicket keeper totally blameless as he is facing third man, not down the wicket, so has no awareness of the context of Murali running.

So, up to the captain to decide whether to recall or not.

If it is the game I'm thinking. Stranding Sangakara on a hundred-odd, best hundred by a visiting team player I've ever seen in NZ. Absolute master class.

 

[ankitj]

Mankad is not in grey region of sorts ethics. It's perfectly legitimate.