Cricketing Clichés

[Burpmybelly]

Team <batting first> will be looking for a good start, while Team <bowling first> for some quick wickets in the first few overs.

Wickets are the key.

What clever cricket that is.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Talk about gimmick infringement!

"Vintage Lara!"

 

[Top_Cat]

Batsman comes down the pitch and bludgeons spinner straight over his head 20 rows back for six:

"He won't be disappointed to see him doing that".

Really? Because I'd be pretty ****ing shattered if I tossed up a reasonable offering and someone had to fetch the ball using a taxi.

McGain must reckon he's around the corner from a 10-fer by that rationale.

 

[bagapath]

Ravi Shastri at the presentation ceremony after every frigging one-day game: "Ladies and Gentlemen. We had a wonderful game of cricket. Over six hundred/five hundred/four hundred/ three hundred/ two hundred runs were scored and the match went right down to the wire"

Could be 115 all out and 116 for 2 in 23.4 overs or 330/6 and 319 all out. but this damn routine never changes.

 

[bagapath]

He's hit the previous delivery for four, and now he's taken the single. Thats good intelligent cricket.

brilliant!!

 

[Jono]

"When he hits it, it stays hit"

 

[nightprowler10]

Yeah absolutely hate that. Because when somebody else hits it it tends to come back?

 

[OnDrive]

Ravi Shastri - Cricket is a funny game. You never know what might happen.

 

[gettingbetter]

Usually by Ian Chappell in regards to Sehwag:

Context: an over before tea, 15-20 session before stumps, India chasing 600. Sehwag gets out cheaply playing an ambitious shot.

"Thats just how he plays."

 

[subshakerz]

"Corridor of uncertainty"...no longer clever, just boring.

 

[inbox24]

People on CricketWeb saying "For mine".

 

[Jakester1288]

"And Pointing told him (Symonds) to be there at the end...and he was."

Who the **** is Pointing?

He's hit the previous delivery for four, and now he's taken the single. Thats good intelligent cricket.

Awesome!

 

[irfan]

Whenever a batsman gets clean bowled:

Michael Holding:
You miss, I hit

 

[fredfertang]

"He's put him down"

For me has always conjured up an image of a vet standing over a terminally ill family pet

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

"The Adelaide Oval scoreboard...."

 

[BoyBrumby]

Boycs saying "As Fred Trueman would've said 'That were too good for the likes of thee, lad'" when a ball goes past the edge of a lower order batsman.

 

[Johnners]

Batsman comes down the pitch and bludgeons spinner straight over his head 20 rows back for six:

"He won't be disappointed to see him doing that".

Really? Because I'd be pretty ****ing shattered if I tossed up a reasonable offering and someone had to fetch the ball using a taxi.

"When he hits it, it stays hit"

"The Adelaide Oval scoreboard...."

Above are 3 of the most annoying for me, particularly the last 2.

 

[Top_Cat]

"The Adelaide Oval scoreboard...."

You go to hell and you die. The Adelaide Oval scoreboard is a thing of beauty and blah blah, ah ****it I can't even fake it.

 

[Redbacks]

Surely it has been heritage listed now, should anyone dare suggest an eventual upgrade

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Can't stand Hussain (who I mostly like as a commentator) employing the verb 'to whack' repeatedly when referring to any batsman who has ever cleared the ropes.

Also, (and this applies to many) commentators who declare the ball 'out of the ground', when it clearly is only in the stands.