Which bowler would you not want to face in park cricket

[TheJediBrah]

wtf was he doing playing pretend cricket on an astro deck lol

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Brett Lee, especially if a beamer slips out.

I'd be standing at square leg.

 

[SteveNZ]

wtf was he doing playing pretend cricket on an astro deck lol

It was 2011, so he would've been 20 and hadn't played FC cricket yet. In Auckland (dunno if this is the case any more), you play on astro turf in the first month or so, because it's too wet to produce grass decks.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Auckland (dunno if this is the case any more), you play on astro turf in the first month or so, because it's too wet to produce grass decks.

heh that actually makes a lot of sense. would be weird af playing on them though

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

In park cricket, the ball of choice is a tapeball...

 

[Shady Slim]

Brett Lee, especially if a beamer slips out.

I'd be standing at square leg.

tbf with this strategy you could probably get halfway to a target off just wides and noeys lmao

 

[JBMAC]

Having faced both Jeff Thomson and Wes Hall I can unequivacably say either of them

 

[Engle]

Roy Gilchrist was a mean scary MF both on and off the field :

Gilchrist's Test career might have been longer had he not been sent home halfway through West Indies' 1958–59 tour of the Indian subcontinent after disagreements with captain Gerry Alexander. One cause of this was Gilchrist's "penchant for bowling beamers from 18 yards" as Cricinfo has put it, as well as off-field arguments.[1] This involved deliberately overstepping the bowling mark by four yards to come closer to the batsman and intimidate him. In the Fourth Test at Nagpur, after Indian batsman A. G. Kripal Singh had struck three consecutive boundaries and taunted him, Gilchrist deliberately overstepped the bowling mark by six metres and delivered a bouncer which hit the Sikh batsman on the head and dislodged his turban.

In the following match, against North Zone, he unleashed a barrage of beamers against Swaranjit Singh, whom Alexander had known at Cambridge. He ignored his captain's instruction to cease this form of attack. During the lunch interval Alexander substituted him, and he was subsequently sent home, while the other players proceeded to Pakistan for the remainder of the tour. Alexander told him: “You will leave by the next flight. Good afternoon.” This marked the end of his Test career. There were suggestions that he had pulled a knife on Alexander.[2]

 

[Kirkut]

If I was a batsman in a test match, the bowlers I would least prefer to face would be the ones with very short run ups. With someone like Wasim Akram or Jasprit Bumrah you never know if the next ball will be a pacy yorker or a slow off break.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I dare say if you were facing Wasim Akram you could be pretty sure it's not going to be a slow off break

 

[Aritro]

Roy Gilchrist was a mean scary MF both on and off the field :

Gilchrist's Test career might have been longer had he not been sent home halfway through West Indies' 1958–59 tour of the Indian subcontinent after disagreements with captain Gerry Alexander. One cause of this was Gilchrist's "penchant for bowling beamers from 18 yards" as Cricinfo has put it, as well as off-field arguments.[1] This involved deliberately overstepping the bowling mark by four yards to come closer to the batsman and intimidate him. In the Fourth Test at Nagpur, after Indian batsman A. G. Kripal Singh had struck three consecutive boundaries and taunted him, Gilchrist deliberately overstepped the bowling mark by six metres and delivered a bouncer which hit the Sikh batsman on the head and dislodged his turban.

In the following match, against North Zone, he unleashed a barrage of beamers against Swaranjit Singh, whom Alexander had known at Cambridge. He ignored his captain's instruction to cease this form of attack. During the lunch interval Alexander substituted him, and he was subsequently sent home, while the other players proceeded to Pakistan for the remainder of the tour. Alexander told him: “You will leave by the next flight. Good afternoon.” This marked the end of his Test career. There were suggestions that he had pulled a knife on Alexander.[2]

He sounds like he wasn't right