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What is Your signature cricketing shot?

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
straight drive, or the sweep. Playing in nets & sometimes for Lanchashire CC you got to be good at these shots sice its a slowish pitch that spins a bit.
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Barney Rubble said:
Over mid-on for 4. :p

Although I played the best leg glance of my life earlier this season - only got 3 for it though, bloody long grass.

I'm a compulsive hooker and puller though - only because I can never get into line quick enough to defend! I played a front-foot pull to a short slower ball earlier this season - missed completely of course, but it looked OK........ :D
Scratch the "over mid-on for 4" bit - I just remembered I got compared to Jacques Kallis earlier this season by my coach, after he saw me play a devastating square cut for 4, so that's probably my best shot. :p I hit one in the nets that would have gone for six over extra cover - best shot I've ever played, and it was in the bloody nets. :@
 

Langeveldt

Soutie
I remember I got compared to Tom Graveny (who?) in the nets because I looked so elegant..

Furious, I smashed the next two balls into the balcony at the top of the sports hall.. First one smashed a door, the second one opened it :)
 

kendall

U19 Vice-Captain
The reverse sweep! although it isnt really as i have always been to scared (sensible) too play it in a real match not that i last too long to do it
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Langeveldt said:
I remember I got compared to Tom Graveny (who?) in the nets because I looked so elegant..

Furious, I smashed the next two balls into the balcony at the top of the sports hall.. First one smashed a door, the second one opened it :)
I always do that - the getting-furious bit, not the hitting-balls-for-miles-and-smashing-things bit. I straight-drove one of my coaches back over his head for six earlier in the season because he was telling me to play straight and "stop slogging". It was only because he insisted on turning his back every time I cut the pace bowlers for four, or played an immaculate defensive - he was always looking every time I lashed the part-timers to cow corner! :@ I had to prove to him I could play straight, and I was so angry there was nowhere else any of his "looping off-breaks" (otherwise known as "pies") were going to go, other than right back over his head! :D :p
 

Sir Redman

State Vice-Captain
Barney Rubble said:
I always do that - the getting-furious bit, not the hitting-balls-for-miles-and-smashing-things bit. I straight-drove one of my coaches back over his head for six earlier in the season because he was telling me to play straight and "stop slogging". It was only because he insisted on turning his back every time I cut the pace bowlers for four, or played an immaculate defensive - he was always looking every time I lashed the part-timers to cow corner! :@ I had to prove to him I could play straight, and I was so angry there was nowhere else any of his "looping off-breaks" (otherwise known as "pies") were going to go, other than right back over his head! :D :p
Haha, you've had coaches like that too? There's this old guy at my club who is a bit of a nutter if you do any non-classical shots. I've had the same problem - I'd have a wog at part-timers in the nets and he'd say something like "now come on, bat properly" in a really annoying voice. Even if I said I was practising my end of innings hitting he wouldn't be happy. Also, if you're in a game and you play even a slightly attacking shot early - well even halfway through - your innings you'll here this voice yelling "Settle down!!". It doesn't really matter what the shot was, it could be dispatching a pie past square leg, but you'd still here it. This one game I played I was in the most incredible form. Everything I played rocketed off the middle for four, even the defensive shots. I had hit 8 fours in a row, then a two, then another couple of fours and he was still saying it. By then, of course, my team were laughing their heads off, and every game from then on someone would be taking the p***.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Perfectly executed front foot cover drive.
High backlift, shoulder turns to covers, left foot to the pitch of the ball, weight onto the front foot as bat follows through, a comlete follow through with the bat face straight till the bat if parallel to the ground at eye level.

Backfoot cover drive off an away moving ball.

Pull and square cut off the new ball.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
cricket player said:
SJS

I heard you played first class cricket is that right?
No. Thats not true. But I got as close to playing first class cricket as one can get without actually playing, including attending selection trial camp :@
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Sir Redman said:
Haha, you've had coaches like that too? There's this old guy at my club who is a bit of a nutter if you do any non-classical shots. I've had the same problem - I'd have a wog at part-timers in the nets and he'd say something like "now come on, bat properly" in a really annoying voice. Even if I said I was practising my end of innings hitting he wouldn't be happy. Also, if you're in a game and you play even a slightly attacking shot early - well even halfway through - your innings you'll here this voice yelling "Settle down!!". It doesn't really matter what the shot was, it could be dispatching a pie past square leg, but you'd still here it. This one game I played I was in the most incredible form. Everything I played rocketed off the middle for four, even the defensive shots. I had hit 8 fours in a row, then a two, then another couple of fours and he was still saying it. By then, of course, my team were laughing their heads off, and every game from then on someone would be taking the p***.
Haha. That does sound very similar to my coach. Except my coach is one of two I have, and the annoying one only turns up to nets so he can criticise, never matches. I had another coach about four years ago who was a big advocate of playing straight and scoring slowly - he used to always tell me that my "unorthodox" style (I'm not a slogger, but I do try and score runs off every ball - my technique's terrible, so I rarely last long when I try and bat slowly) would get my team into trouble one day, and likewise that of my best mate.

Anyway, in one game at Under 15 level we found ourselves about 25-3, and I came out to join my mate at the crease, having been demoted from no1 to no5. The coach was alternating between saying "Consolidate, guys, consolidate!" and telling the rest of the team "we're buggered now with these two in here!", so we had a little bit of a point to prove.

After a partnership of 110 in about 14 overs (a 52-ball 71 from me and a 35-ball 49 from my mate), including 44 off two overs at one point, he stopped complaining. :D :p

We still lost though.
 

Top_Cat

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Top_Cat's signature shot; front-foot planted down the pitch, high back-lift, ball played horribly across the line, end result is runs or dismissal, depending on whether I just wanna get out there and bowl.

:D
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Nnanden said:
:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Haha, quality.
Yeah.......we used to lose a lot. Still do. :D We made about 170-6 in 35 overs in that game, and they knocked it off with only 3 down. Partly because our opening bowler only arrived after 17 overs of their innings - he was watching the FA Cup Final! He bowled 4 overs of crap too when he finally arrived. I even had an over myself (VERY rare occurence!) and the 9 runs I conceded wasn't the worst effort of the day by far - our "leg-spinner" (these days he's a specialist fielder :D ) conceded about 28 off his one over.
 

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
Barney Rubble said:
our "leg-spinner" (these days he's a specialist fielder :D ) conceded about 28 off his one over.
That`s not that bad, I got 32 off an over today in Cricket 2004. :p
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Nnanden said:
That`s not that bad, I got 32 off an over today in Cricket 2004. :p
Our 1st XI leg-spinner, who is actually good (Sussex triallist) got hit for 34 off one over two years ago! It was 666466 apparently. He also suffered the indignity of being swept by me in the nets the other week. :D
 

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
Barney Rubble said:
Our 1st XI leg-spinner, who is actually good (Sussex triallist) got hit for 34 off one over two years ago! It was 666466 apparently. He also suffered the indignity of being swept by me in the nets the other week. :D
That`s incredible!






















...so it was a good sweep? :D
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Barney Rubble said:
Yeah.......we used to lose a lot. Still do. :D We made about 170-6 in 35 overs in that game, and they knocked it off with only 3 down. Partly because our opening bowler only arrived after 17 overs of their innings - he was watching the FA Cup Final! He bowled 4 overs of crap too when he finally arrived. I even had an over myself (VERY rare occurence!) and the 9 runs I conceded wasn't the worst effort of the day by far - our "leg-spinner" (these days he's a specialist fielder :D ) conceded about 28 off his one over.
He should've bowled it flat.
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
marc71178 said:
He should've bowled it flat.
I'm sure if he could bowl anything other than loopy pies which spin about an inch, he would have done! This is a school Under 15 'B' team we're talking about here, remember.
 

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Nnanden said:
That`s incredible!






















...so it was a good sweep? :D
:D

Yeah! One of my best. Completely premeditated, I dragged it from off-stump through midwicket for 4. I don't play the shot very often. I prefer the reverse version. :p

Practising the reverse sweep in nets is so much fun - if you miss, you get to say "ah well, reverse sweeping the opening bowlers was never going to work" and if you succeed, you get to rip the **** out of your opening bowler for weeks. :D
 

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