Share your personal anecdotes (cricket related)

[vvvslaxman]

Your worst moments/best moments?

 

Let me start with couple of mine

 

1 ball to go 6 to win. I was bowling to a tailender. Tennis ball cricket. I was bowling well. Ball slipped  became an off side full toss.  Batsman wildly swung the ball over point for 6.

 

My best friend was bowling. He was on a hatrick. I got clean bowled.  Interesting thing was he took two wickets in the next 2 balls. 5 wickets in a row. All 5 of them were bowled !.

[sandeep]

semi-final of a league game (tennis ball, nothing too fancy, but still it meant a lot to weekend warriors like me).  Opposition 9 wickets down and need 23 off the last over.  Essentially a formality, guy bowling the last over for us had delivered a clutch 4 over spell in the quarterfinal for less than 4 RPO, in a much tighter game.  Had bowled decent all season.  

 

We lose the game with 4 balls to spare.  He just........lost his bowling mojo.  Bowled massive wide after wide, noball, you name it.  multiple breaks, drinks of water, you name it.  Tried bowling without a runup, just nothing worked.  It was unbelievable.  If I wasn't there, I wouldn't believe it.  And there was nothing shady about it, he was devastated after it was 'over'.  In absolute tears.  

 

Weirdest game I had ever been a part of.

[Throwaib_Chuckter]

There are a few, but this one was probably the weirdest.

Inter club game, I was munching down on a chocolate bar (Perk for those who want to know) at deep fine leg after bowling and zoned out. Suddenly there are shouts of Oye  catch it..catch it. A quick glance at ground level and everyone is looking at me, I panic and look up. The ball is going towards my right (the hand I am holding the chocolate bar in) and I have maybe a second or less to grab it. I just blindly stick my hand out and somehow the ball sticks by sheer luck. But to this day I don't know where the chocolate bar went I just had one bite 

Chuckte Raho

TC

Edited June 5, 2023 by Throwaib_Chuckter
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[maniac]

We used to play building cricket every weekend as kids. We could only hit straight or offside for boundaries and on the on side  there were a line of car garages so if you tap into the garage you can get a single. Sometimes if there were no cars in there we used to smash the ball in the empty garage even for a single.

 

There was this very posh kid in the building. A college student of Jai Hind college (mumbaikars will understand the type), smoking Marlboro reds, hanging out with some of the hottest chicks. He stopped playing cricket with the boys now but he knew some of the older kids. Would once in a while just barge in and just grab the bat and ruin the game. You know the deal, there is always someone like that. I was terrified of this guy as he used to call all the kids including me some mean Nick names etc and display total bully behavior.

 

Anyway one day this guy was sitting  in one of the garages with his girlfriend on the car. Just hanging out as he was friends with some of the older kids. His GF was wearing this shortest jeans shorts (for south Mumbai in 90’s this wasn’t a unique site)

 

The garage next to it was empty. I think my batting partner was trying to impress the chick so he was really trying all kinds of fancy Surya kumar shots. Apne Ko bhi josh chad gaya. It was only underarm bowling with a rubber ball.

 

so I decided to smash the next ball. I got a leg stump short ball so I tried to pulled the ball into the empty space with all my power.

 

next thing I heard was a girly scream of ffffffffrrrrrk. I smashed the ball so hard into the girls thigh that she literally had the mark of the red rubber ball on her thigh  even the best tattoo artists couldn’t pull that off. I was terrified and 100% sure this guy was going to kill me.

 

he left and next day I get a call on the building intercom that this guy wants to see me. I thought I am going to die . I asked for some backup but everyone refused and told me I had to deal with my own ****
 

so I meet this guy and next thing he says “chal mere saat”. This guy goes to a panwala lights a cigarette and asks me “cool drink piyega”. I thought he was feeding me like a bali ka bakra. Anyways we just chatted and he let me go. After that he would always be nice to me.

 

Never found out or asked what happened to the girl

 

True Story.

Edited June 5, 2023 by maniac

[Sean Bradley]

21 hours ago, maniac said:

We used to play building cricket every weekend as kids. We could only hit straight or offside for boundaries and on the on side  there were a line of car garages so if you tap into the garage you can get a single. Sometimes if there were no cars in there we used to smash the ball in the empty garage even for a single.

 

There was this very posh kid in the building. A college student of Jai Hind college (mumbaikars will understand the type), smoking Marlboro reds, hanging out with some of the hottest chicks. He stopped playing cricket with the boys now but he knew some of the older kids. Would once in a while just barge in and just grab the bat and ruin the game. You know the deal, there is always someone like that. I was terrified of this guy as he used to call all the kids including me some mean Nick names etc and display total bully behavior.

 

Anyway one day this guy was sitting  in one of the garages with his girlfriend on the car. Just hanging out as he was friends with some of the older kids. His GF was wearing this shortest jeans shorts (for south Mumbai in 90’s this wasn’t a unique site)

 

The garage next to it was empty. I think my batting partner was trying to impress the chick so he was really trying all kinds of fancy Surya kumar shots. Apne Ko bhi josh chad gaya. It was only underarm bowling with a rubber ball.

 

so I decided to smash the next ball. I got a leg stump short ball so I tried to pulled the ball into the empty space with all my power.

 

next thing I heard was a girly scream of ffffffffrrrrrk. I smashed the ball so hard into the girls thigh that she literally had the mark of the red rubber ball on her thigh  even the best tattoo artists couldn’t pull that off. I was terrified and 100% sure this guy was going to kill me.

 

he left and next day I get a call on the building intercom that this guy wants to see me. I thought I am going to die . I asked for some backup but everyone refused and told me I had to deal with my own ****
 

so I meet this guy and next thing he says “chal mere saat”. This guy goes to a panwala lights a cigarette and asks me “cool drink piyega”. I thought he was feeding me like a bali ka bakra. Anyways we just chatted and he let me go. After that he would always be nice to me.

 

Never found out or asked what happened to the girl

 

True Story.

 

Boss Zakhm tune diya lekin us raat uspe Marham usne lagaya , hence the "cool drink"!!

Edited June 6, 2023 by Sean Bradley