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Worst delivery to take a wicket

Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
Carl Hooper's daisy cutter lbw against Hussain.

Simon Katich's full toss that Vaughan swiped down the throat of deep midwicket in 2005. Plenty of full tosses like that do take wickets, so in a sense nothing special about it, but Vaughan had gone into God mode in that innings after passing 100 so was frustrating he fell to such a pie
 

OverratedSanity

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Surely that Swann full toss to Rogers is the winner here by a mile, not least because it was missing leg by like six inches but wasn't reviewed out of sheer embarrassment
I dunno that David Johnson ball almost missed the cut strip
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Surely that Swann full toss to Rogers is the winner here by a mile, not least because it was missing leg by like six inches but wasn't reviewed out of sheer embarrassment
Was the one I had in mind. Pretty sure it was a waist height no ball too?
 

GoodAreasShane

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Literally 90% of Liam Plunkett's career wickets.

Incredible how he pretty much made a career of sending down short slow pies that got caught on the boundary
 

Howe_zat

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Surely that Swann full toss to Rogers is the winner here by a mile, not least because it was missing leg by like six inches but wasn't reviewed out of sheer embarrassment
Yeah exactly the one I thought of. It was part of the worst team innings I've ever seen as well. Multiple other dismissals were bad balls spooned to fielders and there were run outs too.
 

Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
How was this a bad delivery? I would argue that the worst deliveries are those that batsmen should have no difficulty with and would be embarrassed at getting our to. This ball was almost impossible to play and might have got many of the best batsmen in the world out.
I guess a fair point, distinguishing between genuinely terrible deliveries that no batters should be getting out to and ones which take wickets due to some horrendous flukery.
 

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