What's the Funniest Thing You've Seen on a Cricket Field?

[worbod]

During a one day game in 1983-84, Eldine Baptiste was having problems with his delivery stride, resulting in five fours being hit off his bowling in quick succession. This prompted Ian Chappell in the commentary booth to state, "And Baptiste has been struggling out there with no-balls."

Wouldn't any man?

 

[Cousin Jed]

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Bingo. I thought it was bloody funny while it was happening in a completely WTF way.

 

[MisterMarcus]

At the work Christmas party, we often have a very social cricket match. Tennis ball in the park, everyone bats and bowls for 4 overs kind of stuff. We're all nerds and only a few of us have played at any level before, so it's harmless fun. Except for this one guy who's a good player and lets us all know it....bowling bouncers at everyone, running down the pitch to smash girl bowlers for six, that sort of thing.

Anyway this Russian girl comes on to bowl to him, never played cricket before but is very fit and athletic. She can't bowl so we say just try to throw it. She comes tottering in on these high heels.....and lets loose this fast vicious beamer that scones Big Ego straight between the eyes. All of us fall about pissing ourselves, even more so when a few balls later throws down a fast yorker that sends middle stump flying. She gets him out 4-5 times in 2 overs and cements her legend status among us all.

 

[MisterMarcus]

U14s, bowling my very military medium pace, a freak gust of wind blew the bails off as the ball went past, and the batsman was given out bowled!

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Playing indoor cricket (6 a side) we were playing a team lightyears better than our team.

They made something like 170 and by the time my partnership walked in (last) we were -25.

So my mate and i just had a goal of geting back to positive....

My brother once had an indoor team with his mates that I played with. Other than my brother and I, none of them had the slightest bit of sporting or athletic ability in any field. My brother and I weren't cricketers, but handy enough at sport generally to hold our own in social indoor.

Every week we got absolutely flogged. The bloke running the centre was really worried that we would stop turning up, leaving the league a team short and costing him money, so he started making offers like a free Coke if we could get our score above zero. He didn't need to worry as the whole thing was just a bit of a laugh for us anyway and nobody was under any illusions about their ability. So we always had the other six spuds bat first, get us to minus 50 or something, then my brother and I would go in last and get us back to zero. We usually made it, as our ability to actually hold the bat the right way up would take them by surprise, plus by then they weren't too fussed anyway as they knew they were going to win.

I also got my nose broken playing indoor once, with a different team.

 

[Yoda_]

Surely the Shikaar Dhawan (mis) celebrated century rates a mention from the last week?

Dhawan faces up against Sodhi, proceeds to move from 93 > 99, takes the helmet off, raises the arms and celebrates like a hundred.
Virat Kholi calmly walks down the pitch, indicates to the scoreboard and points out that he is in fact on 99.
Dhawan goes onto hit the next ball to the boundary and bring up his century at which point he is embarrassed and gently raises the bat for his hundred.

funny, funny stuff that im trying to find a youtube clip for

 

[djrossie16]

Watching drunk guys play an organized (they had umpires believe it or not) game of cricket in a local reserve. There was about 20 people in the field all with stubbies or cans at their feet. Whenever a wicket was taken the bloke out would get swarmed by everyone. A few out batsman were picked up by the mob. Sledging was out of control some very obscene crude stuff. One bloke in the outfield decided to take a piss on the oval during the game. They were running amok!

 

[RobbyRoy]

Surely the Shikaar Dhawan (mis) celebrated century rates a mention from the last week?

Dhawan faces up against Sodhi, proceeds to move from 93 > 99, takes the helmet off, raises the arms and celebrates like a hundred.
Virat Kholi calmly walks down the pitch, indicates to the scoreboard and points out that he is in fact on 99.
Dhawan goes onto hit the next ball to the boundary and bring up his century at which point he is embarrassed and gently raises the bat for his hundred.

funny, funny stuff that im trying to find a youtube clip for

Any luck?

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

This was school cricket, 3rd XI.

Our captain was an off-spinner (though I've never seen one deviate off the straight) and he opens with himself. Did I mention we never won a game that season?

Anyway, once he was fielding on the boundary, ball got hit out towards him, he picks it up near the boundary. We knew he had a custard arm, so one of us ran 20 yards towards him to get the relay throw.

We saw him pick up the ball, and made a hurling action with his arm. However we never saw a ball thrown towards the centre. We found him collapsed near the boundary, ball on the ground next to him, and holding his arm, whimpering like a little baby.

He had actually broken his arm trying to throw the ball.

I LOL'D.

I LOL'd hard.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Was watching my brother play 3rd grade district down in St Kilda a few years ago. It was a one day game and he was an opener and was only 16. Lets just say he liked to get his eye in, so he was copping it from most of the fielding side about his innings, but most of all from one of their opening bowlers.

Watching wickets fall around him, he is still hanging around managing to hold up an end and. At this point, said opening bowler goes off the field for some reason.

Their other opening bowler comes back on to bowl and halfway through his over bowls one in the slot and my brother hits the cleanest straight drive for six you could imagine.

Their opening bowler walks out of the club rooms at the same time and doesn't realise the ball is coming in his direction. It collects him in the side of the head and sends him toppling into the various cricket kits strewn over the ground.

It was perfect.

 

[Zach Package]

Was involved in running a 6 2 seasons ago.

In the middle of a 2 day game a tree had fallen onto the field, and we basically just played around it (ironically because the other side didn't want to bring in the boundary)

Ball goes out to deep square, rolls into the branches and crap that are around the trunk, and we run 6 while they look for it. We actually kept running and got to about 11 while they kept looking before our captain told us to stop from the sidelines and we agreed to call it a 6

 

[Yoda_]

Was involved in running a 6 2 seasons ago.

In the middle of a 2 day game a tree had fallen onto the field, and we basically just played around it (ironically because the other side didn't want to bring in the boundary)

Ball goes out to deep square, rolls into the branches and crap that are around the trunk, and we run 6 while they look for it. We actually kept running and got to about 11 while they kept looking before our captain told us to stop from the sidelines and we agreed to call it a 6

I managed to run a 5 (no overthrows) on a small suburban ground few years ago.

Was a whippet between the wickets, got dropped on 94 by the opposition fat capt'n and went on to 149.

 

[CakeEater]

Managed to get given run out after the umpire mistakenly signaled a 4.

Tried pointing out the umpires mistake, but he wasnt having a bar of it.

Both sides thought it was hysterical.

 

[gfhawthorn]

i hit 42 of 12 balls including 5 6's, hook shots to the short boundary where there was a river just next to the ground, have to thank the inaccurate medium pacer for those haha, i landed 2 balls in the river and was warned not to do it again otherwise i would have to retire, so next ball i promptly played another hook shot and was given out. never got bat on ball as well as i did that day haha. I also know a bloke who managed to break his leg fielding at short leg.

 

[kenneje]

A team mate tried to convince the rest of us he lost his virginity to his hand. Mid-way through an over.

 

[swingdog]

When playing for a club side in Cambridge. One of our blokes was a doctor at the local hospital.

Opposition's opening bowler rips 3 of us out quickly and then turns his ankle in the field. Jim jogs on ("I'm a doctor") and manipulates the ankle (causes more pain) and tells the bloke to get along to hospital. His mate there will have him strapped up properly and back in time for the rest of the afternoon.

While we're all wondering WTF, Jim calmly takes out his mobile and calls his mate in emergency: "Cricketer coming in with ankle injury. Not serious, but hold him for the rest of the day, will you?"

 

[western royboy]

So many stories, so many charachters,....this could be my best.

Two seasons back, playing 2nd XI cricket trying to shepherd some young bucks into senior cricket. Got a short ball and rocked back to play my signature pull only to see the ball keep scarily low and hit me in front of all three. A vociferous appeal ensued from a team known for their rabid appealing and umpire intimidation, but the umpire stood unmoved, incredibly, inexplicably, I walked off and the umpire eventually raised his finger. I didn't think about it it just happened instinctively. As I made my way back to the pavillion, I tried to contemplate what I had just done.................

A short while after a small crowd began to build, the oval was built into a hill and so there was a natural amphitheatre to setting with a large bank at the Eastern end of the ground. There was a party in an adjacent house and a few punters started to flow in to watch a very low standard game.

At the western end a divvy van on patrol rolled in to kill a bit of time as well. With my batting curtailed (and so the entertainment) for the day I ventured to square leg. As I changed ends there was some movement at the top end and all of a sudden two young maidens (one who was exceptionally well endowed) charged towards me completely topless, instead of greeting me they ran to the pitch, nicked a bail and took off back to where they came from. We had a teammate called Streaka who was getting the pads on but he missed the entertainment because he thought by calling "Streaka" we meant a wicket had fallen instead of "streaker" to alert him to the festivities.

In the middle were a young buck and an old hand. The old hand's fiancee or just wife (can't remember which) was watching as well and he packed bricks thinking if he got out immediately after the commotion he would be in trouble at home. He patted back the next as a result. The young buck had taken a hat trick the week before, he declared what he had just seen as the best thing in his life to date.

Begrudgingly the divvy van made a quick trip to the top of the oval, quick enough to watch said maidens putting their tops back on and issue a stern caution.

My playing career is hurtling towards a close - this will be tough to beat for me.

 

[Harry29]

Country First Division game in the late 1990’s, what you would call pretty serious cricket. We are batting and our resident number 11 walks to the crease, he is a Country Vic Rep as an opening bowler however he would be classed as a ferret as a batsman. A local identity and vocal supporter has had a few too many and has ridden his bike down to the game to watch. This supporter then proceeds to yell out to our number 11 that if he hits a 6 he will run nude out to the pitch. After many swishes and swats no 6 is forthcoming so the supporter decides that a 4 will do, still more playing and missing and no 4 has been hit by our number 11 so it becomes 3 runs then 2 runs then any run. Finally our number 11 hits a single and our supporter then drops his strides to his ankles and shuffles out to the pitch as quickly as one can with your strides around your ankles. Once out at the pitch the supporter provides our number 11 with some liquid refreshment and steals one of the opposition players cap who looked dumbfounded and then shuffles back off to resume his seat on the boundary. Fair to say I have never seen anything like this before or since on a cricket field.

 

[Julius Seizure]