Indeed.C_C said:I say infinite.
Nah, the runner would have to die someday.C_C said:I say infinite.
Not in test/first class matches at leastC_C said:I say infinite.
Ball stuck in a tree?marc71178 said:I think the helmet makes it a dead ball doesn't it?
Anyway, the record in club cricket is over 250.
It was a Norwegian League (West) Division 9A match between Bergen Fish and Trondheim Fish - and the ball was hit into the deep, just as the tide came in.Samuel_Vimes said:Ball stuck in a tree?
No wonder. And the reason they stopped for 250 was because they saw a whale.luckyeddie said:It was a Norwegian League (West) Division 9A match between Bergen Fish and Trondheim Fish - and the ball was hit into the deep, just as the tide came in.
It wedged in a tree which was unclimbable - eventually they had to get a gun and shoot it down!Samuel_Vimes said:Ball stuck in a tree?
Edit: I think Guinness World Records said 19 - ball hit to deep midwicket, where it vanished in the grass...
There are some similar stories in Max Walker's books. One where he and his dad were batting needing 17 off the last ball (if I remember correctly). Being a very small town, the team had only one cricket bat, so Max Walker's dad picks up a fence paling to bat. The ball is bowled, and he plays the shot and no one can find the ball, so they run the 17 needed to win. After the game, they all find out that the when the ball was bowled, it got stuck on a nail on the fence paling that was used as a bat, thus no one could find it.vic_orthdox said:There's like some famous myth/story about a country game of cricket between two rival farms or townships or something, in the 19th century, and one team was screwed, needed 50 runs for so for victory, and then some guy who was just there to make up numbers came in, hit a shot and his dog went and fetched the ball - just like he'd taught him at home when he was practicing - and the opposition went around chasing the dog while the two batsmen ran the 50 odd needed for the win.