Cricket things that annoy you

[peternorth]

The distinct lack of collars in cricket shirts

 

[BrownYouGun]

Untucked shirts

 

[Gethelred]

Yeah this bloke was wearing a baggy.

My folks bought me a lid when I was a young bloke after I lost a second front tooth as a 12 year old and had some dental work but I hated wearing it, I couldn’t get used to looking through it and being a country kid I got sledged a lot for wearing it so i ditched it and never wore one again.

It cost me big time once, I was about 18 and hooked the quickest bowler in town for four, he bowled another bouncer and this one I wasn’t good enough to even see and it absolutely smashed my cheekbone, f**k it hurt: I still have a depression like a ball in it to this day. I didn’t rub it - it was the proudest and stupidest moment of my cricket life. He felt a bit sorry for me I think and said ‘are you ok’ and threw up a little half volley next ball and I hit him for another boundary - the next one I didn’t even see, and my middle stump went cartwheeling about 20 metres. I went and sat in the car nursing my jaw and cried for a bit. I was in agony.

I always tried to play with a bit of false bravado even though I was often shit scared, I think bowlers could tell it was a front most of the time. You can spot the real ones from the fake ones I reckon. I generally handled short stuff pretty well, though. As in, I could at least make sure I wasn’t in TOO much physical danger, at the very least.

I think that would change drastically at 41 if I were to play at any level higher than park grade now

I grew up on stories from my dad, concerning how he had to reteach himself not to play the pull shot after he'd top edged the ball for the nth time into the bridge of his nose and eyebrow, and how he'd wake up at the hospital, not remembering how he got there. I played in a game a few years back where an old bloke was just smoking them; left hander of a reasonable height, and our bowler for whatever reason kept serving them up. He was on about 60 odd before he misjudged one - was through the shot too early - and it got him full on the cheekbone. There was a hole where his cheek used to be; I can still remember seeing it before he got his hand in the way and his children took him to hospital.

Played the bloke later in the season, and he was still batting without a helmet.

It's something I'll never ever do. I don't care if it's inconvenient; I don't care if it's hot or if it's harder to see or you feel claustrophobic. It doesn't matter if you're playing a spinner or a quick; you are at all times able to top edge that ball into your face faster than you can react. It's even worse now, with people trying to play ramp shots.

Wear a helmet.

 

[Gough]

Once the cages came along helmets became more much user friendly, those old plastic visors were horrible.

 

[eddiesmith]

I play in a couple of comps that mandate helmets for batsmen and keepers standing up. Although one may only mandate for fast bowling when batting.

But I’ve taken blokes to hospital who don’t believe in helmets before and another keeper who had $10,000 worth of dental bills missing one from the spinner on a turf deck.

 

[Black Diamond]

Yeah I always thought it was a silly aspect that you didn’t have to get a foot back in the field of place first before touching the ball again. Makes no sense to me

Yeah, of your last contact with the ground was outside the boundary then it should be six runs.

Zero logic to the current interpretation and seems to be just because it looks cool.

 

[Black Diamond]

I play in a couple of comps that mandate helmets for batsmen and keepers standing up. Although one may only mandate for fast bowling when batting.

But I’ve taken blokes to hospital who don’t believe in helmets before and another keeper who had $10,000 worth of dental bills missing one from the spinner on a turf deck.

I can cop players not wanting to wear a helmet, but a keeper without a mouth guard?

I play hockey with guys who don’t wear them. Absolute madness IMO.

 

[PhatBoy]

I can cop players not wanting to wear a helmet, but a keeper without a mouth guard?

I play hockey with guys who don’t wear them. Absolute madness IMO.

I’ve never played a game of hockey in my life but used to have to cover it for work and I thought it was insane that there weren’t more sticks to faces or deflections up into jaws, mouths and noses.

 

[Black Diamond]

I’ve never played a game of hockey in my life but used to have to cover it for work and I thought it was insane that there weren’t more sticks to faces or deflections up into jaws, mouths and noses.

It is a lot like batting in that if you watch the ball you will naturally move or duck.

I can only recall seeing one player hit in the head/face playing 1st grade having been around the game all my life.

And while some of the swinging looks wild and tackling can seem risky, everyone knows what they are doing.

The real risks are being hit hard by the ball on the hand (Kookaburra Matt Dawson had part of his ring finger amputated before the Olympics) and the knee cap (players have had careers ruined this way).

 

[nobbyiscool]

It is a lot like batting in that if you watch the ball you will naturally move or duck.

I can only recall seeing one player hit in the head/face playing 1st grade having been around the game all my life.

And while some of the swinging looks wild and tackling can seem risky, everyone knows what they are doing.

The real risks are being hit hard by the ball on the hand (Kookaburra Matt Dawson had part of his ring finger amputated before the Olympics) and the knee cap (players have had careers ruined this way).

I used to play against a guy who literally had his face caved in, he later became a Kookaburra too.

I remember another kid copping a ball square to the junk, it was a blood curdling scream I'll never forget.

 

[Black Diamond]

I used to play against a guy who literally had his face caved in, he later became a Kookaburra too.

Can you share who without doxing yourself? Guessing Tim Deavin.

I remember another kid copping a ball square to the junk, it was a blood curdling scream I'll never forget.

Lol. I was hit flush once and no air or sound was getting in or out.

 

[PhatBoy]

It is a lot like batting in that if you watch the ball you will naturally move or duck.

I can only recall seeing one player hit in the head/face playing 1st grade having been around the game all my life.

And while some of the swinging looks wild and tackling can seem risky, everyone knows what they are doing.

The real risks are being hit hard by the ball on the hand (Kookaburra Matt Dawson had part of his ring finger amputated before the Olympics) and the knee cap (players have had careers ruined this way).

Most of it I could sort of envisage ‘yeah I could see myself giving that a go if I was fitter and had a taste for it’ (it just wasn’t a sport I was into) but watching short corners and the speed of them and how the players would just willingly attack the ball with little if any regard for what was coming (but obviously as you say a sense of how to handle it) was a pretty impressive display of bravery to me as someone who generally looked at rugby league as the ultimate test of it in team sport terms

 

[Black Diamond]

Most of it I could sort of envisage ‘yeah I could see myself giving that a go if I was fitter and had a taste for it’ (it just wasn’t a sport I was into) but watching short corners and the speed of them and how the players would just willingly attack the ball with little if any regard for what was coming (but obviously as you say a sense of how to handle it) was a pretty impressive display of bravery to me as someone who generally looked at rugby league as the ultimate test of it in team sport terms

I discourage adults from taking the game up. Not wise having not learned the skills from childhood. Unsafe for them and for everyone else. The lower grades are where the injuries happen.

Some of us would do away with short corners or at least modify them. Although the players now where a lot more protective gear for those than in the past. There have been plenty of hand and knee injuries from those.

 

[PhatBoy]

I discourage adults from taking the game up. Not wise having not learned the skills from childhood. Unsafe for them and for everyone else. The lower grades are where the injuries happen.

Some of us would do away with short corners or at least modify them. Although the players now where a lot more protective gear for those than in the past. There have been plenty of hand and knee injuries from those.

I have good hand-eye but yeah, not that kind of good and not conditioned for that.

 

[big_e]

Helmets are required, under the playing conditions, to be worn by wicketkeepers standing up to the stumps in all tests, ODIs, T20Is, all professional cricket in Australia (shield, one-dayers, T20s), and all CA-organised junior comps (national u19s, u17s, etc).

If there are suburban or country comps that don't mandate it, it would be completely bizarre. If it's in your comp's playing conditions but not being policed, then report it to the association. Nothing's more important than your brain.

 

[Black Diamond]

Anyway, two things that really annoy me.

"Red ball" this and "white ball" that. He doesn't have the technique for the red ball. He is a good white ball bowler.

Give me a spell.

The correct terms are long form and short form (or limited overs) cricket.

I also hate the "Asian" stuff. You need three spinners on tour in Asia.

We are not English. The term is subcontinent or Middle East, depending on where the tour is.

 

[magpie_marty]

Going off for and early tea due to bad light at grounds that have lighting.

 

[Black Diamond]

Going off for and early tea due to bad light at grounds that have lighting.

Going off for bad light at all these days is a joke.

If day one of a test is overcast they should use a pink ball the whole match.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Anyway, two things that really annoy me.

"Red ball" this and "white ball" that. He doesn't have the technique for the red ball. He is a good white ball bowler.

Give me a spell.

The correct terms are long form and short form (or limited overs) cricket.

I also hate the "Asian" stuff. You need three spinners on tour in Asia.

We are not English. The term is subcontinent or Middle East, depending on where the tour is.

Or even better, "Cricket" and "Hit'n'Giggle"

 

[31550]

Anyway, two things that really annoy me.

"Red ball" this and "white ball" that. He doesn't have the technique for the red ball. He is a good white ball bowler.

Give me a spell.

The correct terms are long form and short form (or limited overs) cricket.

I also hate the "Asian" stuff. You need three spinners on tour in Asia.

We are not English. The term is subcontinent or Middle East, depending on where the tour is.

It annoys me that different coloured balls perform differently. I get WHY they do. It just annoys me that they do. Having different coloured balls for different playing conditions make sense - I just think the construction should be standardised so that they all perform pretty much the same as each other (under the same conditions that is).

 

[nobbyiscool]

Can you share who without doxing yourself? Guessing Tim Deavin.

Correct! It was him.

The other kid I spoke about's name escapes me, but I'm pretty sure he went on to play for Tassie.