Most Dangerous Match.

[andyc]

Me and my friends often play mini-back yard cricket. Although not dangerous, I did sustain quite an injury. We were using a white squiggy ball, and my friend was in the garden fetching it. He retrieved and threw it over to me. Unsuspecting the hardness, I went for a catch... with my mouth... and soon found out it was a white hockey ball. Blood splattered around as I floundered, but after a few minutes, play resumed

did you catch it?

 

[Lance]

: I guess if you count my teeth and lips as something used to catch with, then yes.

 

[James90]

I have a habit of injuring myself in backyard cricket. A 10 min grass pitch, with a bowler going flat out is damn hard. I almost collected a few beamers to the temple, I don't know how I kept my teeth. However when you get hit in the goolies it's hard to stand for five minutes.

Another thing I remember is diamond cricket in year 7. I was mucking around and went for a reverse sweep, it bounced over the bat and hit me flush in the eye.

Hopefully one day I'll have a more apinful dangerous memory

 

[lachlan43]

We play on the driveway, and because of the slope (bout 30 degrees over 9 metres) the bounce is hard to judge. In 1 over, i got hit in the eye, the balls, the foot and again in the balls.

I was also playing with my little brother (who, though only 8, bowls almost 60 kph when he fires up) and we were using one of those hard tennis balls, 75 cents for 3 at the local shop type and he psyched up when I needed 4 runs off 3 balls (gotta make it tight so the little fella doesnt feel too bad) and he bowled one straight into my eye from 7 metres out. Pain!!!

 

[Nate]

Heh, every Easter break I go on a camp, and we stay in Katoomba High School for cheap accomodation. Im going again in three weeks...

So, we end up playing in a classroom, which for numerous reasons, is ridiculously stupid to do. Let your imagination run wild...

 

[cbuts]

this was a real game. we were in 4th form and we were playing 7th formers - i dare say some were 2nd or 3rd years 7ths! anyway just of a good length, was a raised soccer line. if the ball hit that it went everywhere. as a 4th former these guys were the quickest bowlers id ever faced, and due to most of the team refusing to bat i got shoved into opening. in aobut the 3rd over i went forward to the ball, it hit this line and started to head for myhead. i got that out of the way but didnt have enough time to move my shoulder. it smacked into it, i batted on - in absolute agaonny. we lost just - i managed 32* next highest score qwas 16 and after that 5. after the game went to the hospital, and i had fractued my shoulder, and was out for the season

 

[Silly_Point]

Night Cricket

Only just noticed this forum and then this thread. A bit stale, but ...

1980.
Ulladulla, NSW.
Saturday night.
4 players, all country district reps, (one *very* fast bowler). All back from the pub and quite drunk.
Staying in a 20 x 10 foot (6x3m) tent at the caravan park, the kind Aussie holidays used to be made of. It was the early days of night cricket and we had a kit with us for some reason. So night cricket it was.

A used six stitcher. One metre run-up. Bowl as fast as possible. No pads. Boxes used maybe. Full-blooded strokes. No keeper, 2 fielders.

What was it like? Well, we all survived and I remember it being a lot of fun but I don't remember a lot else. I do remember some vicious drives. How no-one lost a body part I don't know. But we all got back home to play a game the next day. So it ranks as a success!

 

[Majin]

This one time when I was bout 16, me and three friends were at one of their houses having a bit of a gathering and all getting a bit tipsy. He lived in a flat above a chip shop, too, so there was no garden or anything. So at about 4 a.m we decided we wanted a game of cricket, and seeing as there was nowhere else to play, we went out to play it in the road outside his house, which was normally a main road, but it was empty 'cause of the time of morning. So we got out there, and two of my friends play cricket for the local teams, and me and the other guy were both just nubs. So one of them went in to bat, the other to bowl, I went to wicket keeper and the guy who's house we were at went to field. First ball, the batsman beasts the first ball with this pull shot, and it lands in this bush by the pub. So the fielder goes "I'LL GET IT!" being a bit drunk, runs up and dives into this bush and then just screams when he realises it was a thorn bush. So he's stuck for like 20 minutes, we're all laughing at him and the ball never got found.

That was an amazing game, f'serious.

 

[Robertinho]

You're a monster

 

[Tomm NCCC]

Earlier this year I had a small game, but it was just a couple of months after my broken leg and it was till unstable. My ankel swelled up, and I had to have ice on it for the next few days, any ball into the shin and i wouldve been fudged

 

[NZTailender]

Playing backyard cricket at a friends when I was 10 and he went the big charge but the bat slipped out of his hand (it had been raining) and the bat hit me in the side of the head.


It hurt, but I was fine. Don't think it did any permanent damage, but it'd explain a lot.

 

[fallenangel]

We were playing action cricket at school just the other day. It was in a very small space (and i mean like, squash court size) with bins and chairs as wickets etc. One guy came up to bat, and he's huge. He swung hard at the ball and let go in full swing. The bat went hurtling through the air and hit the cricket coach square in the nuts...luckily that was our last game for the year. I only ended up with a cricket ball shaped bruise on my inner thigh.

 

[33/3from3.3]

lol. That brings back memories. We were against a team of rather large, rather dark skinned, people. Who could give the ball a whack. Got hit 2 while feilding (once on the ankle, once on the thigh) and once batting in the goodys.

 

[fallenangel]

lol..cricket's kinda dangerous...i think the coach would have coped better had he worn a box. But what with it being a small school with non cricket players I don't think he thought he'd need one. :P He probably also didn't take flying bats into his equations. Someone also very nearly fell into the bin acting as a wicket in this game..

 

[JikJak]

when me and my mate went into slogging mode against are other mates, we cracked two windows before legging it away from the park incase being seen by the owners

 

[Stumped]

it was a steaming hot day and the pavement was extremely hot, we all ended up with blisters, not really dangerous buts its my best

 

[DCC_legend]

it was 2day actually!! weve just started playing tapeball in skool and were just gettin to grips with it! anyway standin behind the stumps(bin) (quite stupid seein u get a mile of out an inswing) and one of our schools 1sts players bowls a full toss and it swings strait into the balls! not good was down for about 5 mins and then wen i got up i felt the waves of pain.it lasted about 4 hours before it went away.
last time im ever doin wicket keeper

 

[The Foxtrot]

We play on the driveway, and because of the slope (bout 30 degrees over 9 metres)

you play on a hill, because as you describe it the bowler is bowling from four and a half metres below/above you vertically and the same horizontally

 

[Fiery]

Hallway bottle cricket can be quite dangerous. Shards of glass coming back to you from a straight drive are sometimes hard to dodge. I remember a friendly that began at 541 Castle St, North Dunedin in 1994 which transformed into a game of rugby. I ended up at the bottom of a ruck and broke my leg. My mates thought it was hilarious but I questioned the legality of the rucking

 

[luffy]

Playing Cricket in a tiny hotel with a full sixed bat and a bar of soap. Got hit in the face by a beamer and fell and smashed my head against a wall.