Funny cricketing memories from childhood (and upwards)

[Arachnodouche]

Remember a bloke I used to play with in Maldives who did something similar. He steams in all the way from the boundary line with his arms tucked in and excessively long strides. Fixes you with a nasty glare as he charges in. As soon as he comes to the crease, he stops abruptly, stands still bellows at the top of his voice. With no momentum at all used from his runup he hurls the ball at you with a bent arm and promptly falls to the ground. I remember the only reason we found it hard to put the ball away to the boundary was because we were laughing so hard.

Himannv's post made me smile. My neighbour, some 5 years younger than me, used to run in from very wide of the crease a la Murali/Mushtaq, fling some horribly looping ball that would take ages to arrive, and then literally run away from the square lest he get a smack right back in his face. And he always used to stand there with a **** eating grin on his face.

Have any yourselves?

 

[Daemon]

There was this one time I was keeping and got hit by those 5 rupee rubber balls on the thumb and it required surgery because of torn ligaments, dislocation and hairline fractures. My friend kept laughing at the weird shape my thumb was in while I was crying. It hurt.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

My brother would always get me out with the slowest of deliveries. Very embarrassing.

 

[Chubb]

The time I headed a ball for 6 trying to take a catch on the boundary.

 

[Daemon]

The time I headed a ball for 6 trying to take a catch on the boundary.

 

[hazsa19]

Playing in house matches. My batting partner gloved one up in the air.

The catch was taken, the fielders celebrated, the umpire raised his finger.

The batsman unwisely protested to the umpire, who was also head of year, 'are you ****ing blind? It hit my ****ing glove'.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

My brother's bowling action was 'The Windmill'. Like one of the bowlers in Lagaan that the English can't play until they work out that he grunts just before he releases the ball.

 

[Lostman]

Remember in the early 90's when every cameraman used to show fast bowlers shoes with a hole cut out for the big toe and the sock sticking out?
Then every commentator used to go on about how this was to help relieve stress on the toe.

I managed to convince one my friends that he should do the same for his pair of reeboks as this would let him bowl faster

P.S we were about 7-8 years old.

 

[GIMH]

Bowling in the sports hall in school. Got my release point a bit wrong. Ball hit ceiling, I kid you not.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Was playing at school during games. Hit the ball a long way and ran to the other end without my bat like rounders.

 

[Cruxdude]

Was 8 and playing in my friends driveway. Broke a decorative lamp while throwing the ball to the bowler from the end of the driveway. Was ****ing scared about what was going to happen, that I ran off and hid in a shelf at my place without anyone noticing. My friends searched for quite a while before I cam out some 2 hours later.

 

[slowfinger]

Kind of a tradition but if a player gets a duck we take a photo with them holding a rubber duck

Other than that, my mate got out for 0 run out and his rage was sooooo funny!!!

 

[Eds]

Back in the U14's or so, when you had fillers who were specialist fields, we had one of the second rows from the rugby team playing. Stereotypical dopey ****, about 6foot2 at the age of 13 and built like a brick ****house.

The ball comes looping towards him, he moves backwards, hoping to judge the ball correctly. Horrible moment when the ball gets caught in the sun occurs. In a horrible moment of confusion he runs forward as he thinks he's gone back to far. He was on the boundary, and he takes one right in the mouth.

 

[Cruxdude]

Again when I was a kid, none of us really understood what the LBW rule was. So in our backyard play we decided whenever the ball hits the batsman's leg he is out. Resulted in me batting with the worst possible stance imaginable for some time before we abolished LBW.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

We never played with LBW, since the bowling team would always cry out whenever the ball touched the leg.

 

[Burgey]

Kind of a tradition but if a player gets a duck we take a photo with them holding a rubber duck

Other than that, my mate got out for 0 run out and his rage was sooooo funny!!!

Haha yes. A mate of mine brought a duck to games a couple of years back, one which quakes when you moved it.

He went out to open one game and got shafted first ball lbw, came back in the shed furious and three his bat on his bag in anger....

Quack quack quack quack quack

Even he laughed.

 

[Neil Pickup]

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/3858-fire-alarm-stopped-play.html

 

[Doctor]

I was an opener, and I had scored at a s/r of about 30 until the last over of the day, where we needed 12 to win. Not sure why I left it so long to start scoring though.

I hit the first ball for four, masterly edging it through the slips. Second ball I somehow hit for six over midwicket. I was on 94 at that stage, I believe, so I premeditated a memorable six. I predicted a yorker, which it would have been, but I'd moved out of my crease a little, and I smacked that ball as hard as I could, and by God the leather on wood sounded good... but it hit the bowler in the shoulder, and it bounced off into the umpire’s balls department. Out of shock, I let out a little laugh and everybody thought I was the devil.

Ftr we tied.

 

[Hurricane]

My mate philip was excited about using his feet to the spinners. We were 9 years old and no one knew that a ball over shoulder height on the full is a no ball. Phillip charged down the wicket and the bowler saw him coming so decided he would bowl the ball over phillips head very slowly and clean bowl him as the ball descended. Phil realising he was done for when he saw the delivery jumped in the air and hit the ball while holding the bat vertically above his head. Phillip smiled as he realised he had outwitted the bowler - only to find that he had hit the ball back to the bowler on the full. Out caught and bowled.