Send offs given by bowlers

[ankitj]

This one was epic.

Venkatesh Prasad vs Aamir Sohail - YouTube

Gives goosebumps even today. It's funny how Imran on commentary goes from "Sohail is a great competitor" to "Very unintelligent piece of Cricket from Amir Sohail" within a ball

 

[BoyBrumby]

Don't want to be an old fart, but never liked send offs. The job's done, you have your man, no need to be a **** about it. Questioning a batsman's techique/courage/parentage/***uality might serve some purpose before he's dismissed (SR Waugh's "mental disintegration", etc), but afterwards it looks more than a little ****ish, IMHO.

Sidearse was particularly bad with the SOs.

 

[ganeshran]

Gives goosebumps even today. It's funny how Imran on commentary goes from "Sohail is a great competitor" to "Very unintelligent piece of Cricket from Amir Sohail" within a ball

Playing a premeditated shot and telling the bowler in advance is probably the worst thing a batsman can do

btw How can we embed videos in CW?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Don't think you can.

 

[smash84]

Gives goosebumps even today. It's funny how Imran on commentary goes from "Sohail is a great competitor" to "Very unintelligent piece of Cricket from Amir Sohail" within a ball

haha.......so true.....Sohail was bizarre really so can't blame Imran there

 

[Xuhaib]

yeah that was awful from Sohail probably cost us the game at this point, right up there with Misbah and Hafeez scoop

 

[ganeshran]

Don't think you can.

Should be enabled IMO. Very useful feature

 

[smash84]

Should be enabled IMO. Very useful feature

you can request this in the site discussion forum

 

[wellAlbidarned]

When I take a wicket, I never feel any need or temptation to badmouth the batsman. It's just so redundant, you've already beaten the batsman fair and square, the job is done.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Speaking for myself, not a fan of giving sendoffs or being verbally aggressive in any other way. Wouldn't judge someone else for doing it though - guess it's different strokes for different folks.
Personally speaking, always believed that if the ball does the talking, the bowler doesn't need to utter a single word. And that day when the ball delivered from my hand stops talking, I'd pick up a different sport!

 

[Hurricane]

Had two send offs in my club game today. The second one created an incident which I can't divulge on the Internet. Further reinforced my belief that send offs are a bad idea.