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S'''''''' He took 4 for 57 and no gst pst ...
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Strange, Funny, Bizzare !!
- Thread starter SJS
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S'''''''' He took 4 for 57 and no gst pst ...
Quoting from the book :
After a liberal two minutes wait, the umpires declared the Midx innings ended, a decision supported by the MCC. Kent then began their innings against two Midx players, supported by a twelfth man as wicket keeper and 8 substitutes provided by Kent.
Another ridiculous finish
http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/f/27/f27513.html
It rained on the last day and Hampshire left early assuming that the match was abandoned. When the match resumed late in the day, no Hants players were around. The match was initally awarded to Glamorgan but the decision was later overturned
http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/f/27/f27513.html
It rained on the last day and Hampshire left early assuming that the match was abandoned. When the match resumed late in the day, no Hants players were around. The match was initally awarded to Glamorgan but the decision was later overturned
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare Incidents # 18
Coping with adversity?
Going for a firce drive, CG Whittaker, playing for Kent in the middle of the 19th century, suffered the loss of half his thumb.
Being a humorous man and with a thrifty streak in him, he had the bone removed from the missing part and converted it into a pipe temper !!
Coping with adversity?
Going for a firce drive, CG Whittaker, playing for Kent in the middle of the 19th century, suffered the loss of half his thumb.
Being a humorous man and with a thrifty streak in him, he had the bone removed from the missing part and converted it into a pipe temper !!
KennyD
International Vice-Captain
a pipe temper? thats not homourous, thats just weirdSJS said:Bizzare Incidents # 18
Coping with adversity?
Going for a firce drive, CG Whittaker, playing for Kent in the middle of the 19th century, suffered the loss of half his thumb.
Being a humorous man and with a thrifty streak in him, he had the bone removed from the missing part and converted it into a pipe temper !!
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Well. Lots of people hold the pipe in their hand and use the thumb/index finger of the same hand to press the tobacco in it. This man, since he had lost the part of his thumb, probably thought he would still use it for the same purposeKennyD said:a pipe temper? thats not homourous, thats just weird
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare History # 19
Painful knocks for Parthiv Patel's spiritual ancestors !!
Once there was a choirboy at the Parish Church in Mitcham. When very young he used to take his lunch and go and watch the Mitcham Club. Sometimes he played in matches with other choir boys.
As a ten year old enthusiastic boy , he used to run in from cover to the stumps to cover the throws sent in from the outfield. The Vicar's daughter, one Miss Wilson, who supervised the matches of the choir boys noticed him taking the throws with his bare hands and suggested to him to become a wicket keeper. He took her advise and played in that position for the rest of his life.
In 1896, at the age of 16, he was asked to go for trial to the Oval. Asked to keep in the nets to the brisk leg break of Len Braund, he got hit on the head and was asked to come back when he was old enough !
Two years leter he went again. Though he impressed enough to be taken on the staff, it was not before Len Braund had split the first finger of his right hand with a quicker delivery. This was the first of a series of injury over the next 30 years ! Scantily protected, his hands were gnarled and misshapen at the end of his distinguished career as one of the game's greatest ever keepers.
His name was Herbert Strudwick.
Gloves for keepers were similar to the batsmen (which were nothing comapared to the batsmen's protection today) and Strudwick was the first to put solid leather tips inside the gloves to protect his finger tips and thumb.
While others were known to put raw steak on their palms for protection, he started the use of moistened inners.
Asked by the Oxford University keeper, A G Pawson, for advise, he said, " Rinse your hands in the chamberpot everyday. The urine hardens them wonderfully."
The pads were similar to the batsmen's and boxes were available only from 1910. The first box was marketed by J.T. Tyldesley, who had suffered a six week layoff on account of a groin injury !!
Frank Stedman, used to protect his chest with a copy of the South Western Railway time able ! On one occasion, after recieving a really severe blow, he remarked to a colleague, [I]" I shall have to take a later train tonight. That one knocked off the 7.30 !"[/I]
Strudwick once had his breatbone nearly cracked by one which exploded from a length on the fast Oval wicket from JN Crawford. but it was his hands that suffered the most. Jack Hobbs said of him, " ...many a times in the early days, I have known that he could not sleep at night owing to bad fingers.." but he had been brought up in a hard school where the remuneration was small but to stand down through injury could mean the loss of one's place (and wages) for a season, or longer !
Painful knocks for Parthiv Patel's spiritual ancestors !!
Once there was a choirboy at the Parish Church in Mitcham. When very young he used to take his lunch and go and watch the Mitcham Club. Sometimes he played in matches with other choir boys.
As a ten year old enthusiastic boy , he used to run in from cover to the stumps to cover the throws sent in from the outfield. The Vicar's daughter, one Miss Wilson, who supervised the matches of the choir boys noticed him taking the throws with his bare hands and suggested to him to become a wicket keeper. He took her advise and played in that position for the rest of his life.
In 1896, at the age of 16, he was asked to go for trial to the Oval. Asked to keep in the nets to the brisk leg break of Len Braund, he got hit on the head and was asked to come back when he was old enough !
Two years leter he went again. Though he impressed enough to be taken on the staff, it was not before Len Braund had split the first finger of his right hand with a quicker delivery. This was the first of a series of injury over the next 30 years ! Scantily protected, his hands were gnarled and misshapen at the end of his distinguished career as one of the game's greatest ever keepers.
His name was Herbert Strudwick.
Gloves for keepers were similar to the batsmen (which were nothing comapared to the batsmen's protection today) and Strudwick was the first to put solid leather tips inside the gloves to protect his finger tips and thumb.
While others were known to put raw steak on their palms for protection, he started the use of moistened inners.
Asked by the Oxford University keeper, A G Pawson, for advise, he said, " Rinse your hands in the chamberpot everyday. The urine hardens them wonderfully."
The pads were similar to the batsmen's and boxes were available only from 1910. The first box was marketed by J.T. Tyldesley, who had suffered a six week layoff on account of a groin injury !!
Frank Stedman, used to protect his chest with a copy of the South Western Railway time able ! On one occasion, after recieving a really severe blow, he remarked to a colleague, [I]" I shall have to take a later train tonight. That one knocked off the 7.30 !"[/I]
Strudwick once had his breatbone nearly cracked by one which exploded from a length on the fast Oval wicket from JN Crawford. but it was his hands that suffered the most. Jack Hobbs said of him, " ...many a times in the early days, I have known that he could not sleep at night owing to bad fingers.." but he had been brought up in a hard school where the remuneration was small but to stand down through injury could mean the loss of one's place (and wages) for a season, or longer !
Craig
World Traveller
SJS said:Bizzare Number 6
can you guess the highest nymber of rins scored of a single ball?
let me tell you. A touring side from Victoria played a scratch side from Bunbury in Western Australia. The very first ball of the match was hit into a three pronged branch of a Jarrah tree which was inside the boundary.
The home side claimed ball lost as the batsmen kept on running but the umpire refused saying the ball could not be lost since it could be seen !!
They tried to get an axe to cut down the tree but couldnt find one. Finally someone got a rifle and after many unsuccessful attempts they managed to shoot the ball down.
The batsman, meantime had run 286 !! They 'stood' on that score (I presume that means they declared) and went on to win the match.
PS I am sure this must be
- the highest score without a boundary hit,
- one of the highest without an extra, the highest proportion (100%) of the
runs scored by a batsman,
- the highest proportion of balls in an innings sent down by an individual bowler,
- the highest strike rate in the history of the game
- the worst economy rate for a bowler and so on and on and on.....
That's amazing.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare # 20
The batsman who couldnt take it !!
City Gymkhana and Nazimabad Sports were playing at Karachi. Former test player Salahuddin and Prince Aslam were at the crease. The Prince was well known for his fiery temper.
An appeal for leg before against the Prince was upheld by the umpire, despite stronng protestations from the volatile blue blooded batsman. The umpire remained firm and the prince had to walk.
Minutes later, after he had smouldered in the pavillion for a while, the prince was back on the pitch, now carrying a loaded revolver which he fired once in the air above the umpire's head. The effect was dramatic. The prince's reputation being well known, the batsman, fielder and umpires fled the field, jumped over the fence and vanished. The match was abandoned.
The batsman who couldnt take it !!
City Gymkhana and Nazimabad Sports were playing at Karachi. Former test player Salahuddin and Prince Aslam were at the crease. The Prince was well known for his fiery temper.
An appeal for leg before against the Prince was upheld by the umpire, despite stronng protestations from the volatile blue blooded batsman. The umpire remained firm and the prince had to walk.
Minutes later, after he had smouldered in the pavillion for a while, the prince was back on the pitch, now carrying a loaded revolver which he fired once in the air above the umpire's head. The effect was dramatic. The prince's reputation being well known, the batsman, fielder and umpires fled the field, jumped over the fence and vanished. The match was abandoned.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare #21
Ganguly's worse nightmare ??
In another match involving the same Nazimabad Sports, a one day game against Clifton Gymkhana, four motorcyclists suddenly roared onto the pitch from different directions.
Leaping off their bikes. they seized the captain of the Clifton Gymkhana, the Test cricketer, Aftab Baloch, and forcibly shaved off his head. Knowing that the assailants carried knives, none of the other players - who included another test player Mohsin Khan - nor the umpires dared to interfere.
Later it transpired that Aftab had been set upon because he had dropped a player who was so offended that he called in the heavy mob to exact revenge.
Ganguly's worse nightmare ??
In another match involving the same Nazimabad Sports, a one day game against Clifton Gymkhana, four motorcyclists suddenly roared onto the pitch from different directions.
Leaping off their bikes. they seized the captain of the Clifton Gymkhana, the Test cricketer, Aftab Baloch, and forcibly shaved off his head. Knowing that the assailants carried knives, none of the other players - who included another test player Mohsin Khan - nor the umpires dared to interfere.
Later it transpired that Aftab had been set upon because he had dropped a player who was so offended that he called in the heavy mob to exact revenge.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare # 22
George Cross winning performance on the cricket field !!
In 1934, Colonel Douglas Brett was playing in a match at Chittagong when five Indian militants - four of them carrying bombs
and the other firing from a pistol - charged onto the field and began attacking both players and spectators. Colonel Brett waded in with a one man counter attack. For his courage he was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal, the holders of which were automatically awarded the George Cross when this medal was instituted in 1940.
George Cross winning performance on the cricket field !!
In 1934, Colonel Douglas Brett was playing in a match at Chittagong when five Indian militants - four of them carrying bombs
and the other firing from a pistol - charged onto the field and began attacking both players and spectators. Colonel Brett waded in with a one man counter attack. For his courage he was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal, the holders of which were automatically awarded the George Cross when this medal was instituted in 1940. 
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare and funny # 23
Two of the most hilarious 'interviews' that I have ever seen on TV/heard on radio are both involving the former Indian Captain late Lala Amarnath.
Here is one. It is better in Hindi but I have put the translation alongside.
Lalaji was the expert and the commentator was an idiot (one of many hoisted on a helpless public by the state owned monopoly , Doordarshan) called Joga Rao. Like others who gave commentary (Jasjit Singh being another) in Hindi Joga Rao's main claim to the position was his erudition in the national language and his stupid conversion of the most common terms to Hindi which was much acclaimed by the politicians who thought this was another nationalistic/patriotic stick to beat the public with
So. On the day, Ajit Wadekar, the Indian captain and elegant left handed batsman drove a ball to covers for a boundary. Here is what followed
Joga Rao : Lalaji. Abhi jo Wadekar ne backfoot pe coverdrive lagaya uske baare main aapka kya vichar hai ?
(Lala ji, What are your views about the backfoot cover drive played by Wadekar just now ?)
Lala : Joga Rao ji, Yeh backfoot drive nahin tha, front foot drive tha, wristy shot tha.
(Joga Rao, this was not a backfoot drive, it was a front foot drive anda wristy one at that)
Joga Rao (not having heard what the Lala said over the din of the crowd and not being one to be ever embarassed by his many faux paus) : Haan haan Lalaji, aap ek dum theek kehte hain. Bahut risky shot tha. Wadekar ko nahin khelna chahiye tha.
(Yes yes Lalaji. You are absolutely correct. It was a very risky shot. Wadekar should not have played it.)
Lala : Joga Raoji. Risky nahin (showing what he meant with a few flicks of his right wrist) wristy, wristy. Kalaai se khela hua. Samjhe ?
(Not risky Joga Rao, wristy, wristy. Played with the wrist, understood ?)
Two of the most hilarious 'interviews' that I have ever seen on TV/heard on radio are both involving the former Indian Captain late Lala Amarnath.
Here is one. It is better in Hindi but I have put the translation alongside.
Lalaji was the expert and the commentator was an idiot (one of many hoisted on a helpless public by the state owned monopoly , Doordarshan) called Joga Rao. Like others who gave commentary (Jasjit Singh being another) in Hindi Joga Rao's main claim to the position was his erudition in the national language and his stupid conversion of the most common terms to Hindi which was much acclaimed by the politicians who thought this was another nationalistic/patriotic stick to beat the public with
So. On the day, Ajit Wadekar, the Indian captain and elegant left handed batsman drove a ball to covers for a boundary. Here is what followed
Joga Rao : Lalaji. Abhi jo Wadekar ne backfoot pe coverdrive lagaya uske baare main aapka kya vichar hai ?
(Lala ji, What are your views about the backfoot cover drive played by Wadekar just now ?)
Lala : Joga Rao ji, Yeh backfoot drive nahin tha, front foot drive tha, wristy shot tha.
(Joga Rao, this was not a backfoot drive, it was a front foot drive anda wristy one at that)
Joga Rao (not having heard what the Lala said over the din of the crowd and not being one to be ever embarassed by his many faux paus) : Haan haan Lalaji, aap ek dum theek kehte hain. Bahut risky shot tha. Wadekar ko nahin khelna chahiye tha.
(Yes yes Lalaji. You are absolutely correct. It was a very risky shot. Wadekar should not have played it.)
Lala : Joga Raoji. Risky nahin (showing what he meant with a few flicks of his right wrist) wristy, wristy. Kalaai se khela hua. Samjhe ?
(Not risky Joga Rao, wristy, wristy. Played with the wrist, understood ?)
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare # 24
Cricket in Verse
Underprepared Wicket
He played his cricket on the heath
The pitch was full of bumps
The fast ball hit him on the teeth
The dentist drew the stumps
Mr Ponting in India
His record, take it all in all,
Was not a very great one;
He seldom hit a crooked ball
And never stopped a straight one
Cricket in Verse
Underprepared Wicket
He played his cricket on the heath
The pitch was full of bumps
The fast ball hit him on the teeth
The dentist drew the stumps
Mr Ponting in India
His record, take it all in all,
Was not a very great one;
He seldom hit a crooked ball
And never stopped a straight one
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Great stuff, SJS. I used to have a similar collection of facts. It was Centrefresh's cricket book but I lost it. 
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Bizzare # 25
There were two surrey players who inadvertantly became instrumental in two major changes to cricketing laws which are so basic that without them the game would be unrecognisable from what we know it to be.
The bowler who, unfortunately, was deadly accurate.
Lumpy Stevens, was so accurate that in a five of Hambledon vs Five of England match when the last man came in Lumpy was sure he would get his wicket before that. But inspite of three deliveries that beat the batsman all ends up and went through his stumps. He was so upset that after that a third stump was added to the two that were used till then !!
The man with a real broad blade !!
Thomas White, another Surrey player turned up at Hambledon, dragging behind him a bat as wide as the stumps !!
The firlders took out knives, not to attack him, but shave the sides of the bat down to a reasonable size.
After that a four and a quarter inch limit was fixed in the laws of the game.
There were two surrey players who inadvertantly became instrumental in two major changes to cricketing laws which are so basic that without them the game would be unrecognisable from what we know it to be.
The bowler who, unfortunately, was deadly accurate.
Lumpy Stevens, was so accurate that in a five of Hambledon vs Five of England match when the last man came in Lumpy was sure he would get his wicket before that. But inspite of three deliveries that beat the batsman all ends up and went through his stumps. He was so upset that after that a third stump was added to the two that were used till then !!
The man with a real broad blade !!
Thomas White, another Surrey player turned up at Hambledon, dragging behind him a bat as wide as the stumps !!
The firlders took out knives, not to attack him, but shave the sides of the bat down to a reasonable size.
After that a four and a quarter inch limit was fixed in the laws of the game.
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The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
amazing
you never realise how rules have stories behind them
you never realise how rules have stories behind them