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u/PeaceKeeperl231
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u/RealBigTree 7d ago
That was like, 3 stooges level failure
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u/Ycx48raQk59F 7d ago
Fuck, Mr Bean would need to have an inpired day to create a fuckup that convoluted and compounding.
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u/knightopusdei 7d ago
Honestly I thought this was r/IndianScriptedGifs
You'd need Bollywood level CGI to get this level of comedic timing.
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u/distructron 7d ago
I especially liked the coffin pose at the end so we knew he truly died inside.
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u/elteza 7d ago
The funniest boundary ever seen
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u/thodgson 7d ago
I haven't laughed out loud for over a minute in a long time.
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u/_Im_Dad 7d ago •
It is illegal to laugh loudly in Hawaii so all I could do is a low HA
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u/evanphi 7d ago
Don't you mean HI?
Yeeeeahhhh postal service abbreviations.
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u/MyThermostat 7d ago
I don’t want to give the joke away so please read it again out loud and really listen to yourself on those last 3 words
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u/Dboy777 7d ago
There is just so much going on! So much to laugh at
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u/notthegoodscissors 7d ago
Everything from the crazily wide bowl, the batmans stance and weird decision to try and hit to the opposite direction facing the wrong way. The fielders antics were just the icing on the cake here!
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u/Dangerous_Speaker_99 7d ago
Funniest amateur cricket moment since Australian Prime Minister and noted cricket tragic John Howard bowling in Pakistan https://youtu.be/0o8by05rtMY
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u/mittens11111 7d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it9u8OeCXyY&ab_channel=ABCNews%28Australia%29
Or this, Aussie PM Bob Hawke smashing his glasses.
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u/mittens11111 7d ago
Reply to self edit, maybe not so funny on a rewatch. Could have been serious damage to his sight.
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u/yankeeFireWhiskey 7d ago
My takeaway was mostly, "Huh. Bob seems like a good chap."
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u/hollis216 7d ago
Man was in the Guinness Book of World Records for seeing off a yard in 11 seconds.
He was one of the great ones.
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u/uwanmirrondarrah 7d ago
I don't know what that means
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u/hollis216 7d ago
50oz of beer out of a stretched out flower vase
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u/Amateur-Prophet 7d ago
That just made me want international policy to be set by competition in a variety of games, but that one especially.
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u/rogue_teabag 6d ago
Darts, pool, yard glasses, arm wrestling, drunken karaoke.. The possibilities are endless.
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u/Formal_Giraffe9916 7d ago
The completely unhidden opinion of “what a fucking wanker” from the reporter there is glorious
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u/I-Got-Trolled 7d ago
The posture of ultimate defeat at the end got me. Dude knew fate was against him and that there was nothing he could do.
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u/kungfoojesus 7d ago
I don’t understand cricket despite having English in laws and watching videos explaining it. But I fully understand the hilarity of what just happened. Universal as man getting hit in groin with football.
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u/Ballcuzzi_Straw 7d ago
This is the single most unathletic thing I’ve ever seen.
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u/poopellar 7d ago
Wait till you see my try to get out of bed.
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u/Efficient-Book-3560 7d ago
The fact that the old man is out there should be inspiring enough!
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u/junk_mail_haver 7d ago
It's a charity match most likely.
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u/shivambawa2000 7d ago
naa these are very common, local tournaments, usually organised by local political parties or just some companies for marketing and people make their teams and enter, usually a entry fees for a team.
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u/jerkularcirc 7d ago
are these professional players?
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u/Michaelhuber87 7d ago
Of course not lol
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u/jerkularcirc 7d ago
i dont know cricket but usually you dont just see amateur sports games being televised unless its with celebrities and clearly for charity or something
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7d ago
It's probably not being televised, I think it has been edited that way to be put on social media like YouTube to share with friends and family. Just people having fun
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u/MercenaryBard 7d ago
Yup! This is what Cricket is at a professional level. The batter (or “cricketeer”) actually put so much spin on the ball if became impossible to handle.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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u/NetHacks 7d ago
So, this is what beer league cricket looks like. Ad a beer league hockey player, I can appreciate this.
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u/WatercressPersonal60 7d ago
My beer league hockey team pays for a service that records all our games using a single camera that tracks the bulk of movement on the ice. It's kind of embarrassing to see how slow we are on video when it feels like the game is happening at pro speeds when we're actually playing.
It's like how do I not dominate every Tuesday night? We are so slow.
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u/mb303030 7d ago
Haha I feel that as a long time ice hockey goalie. I look at some of the replays and in my head I'm like yeah that's broduer level save and then I see the replay and cringe. Sometimes it's cool though when you actually make a nice save or play by the forward. All my son's games are recorded on YouTube too. It's so different from when I was growing up playing. They even have an IG channel with plays of the weeks and highlights. It's wild lol
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u/Ligalotz 7d ago
I’m telling you, it’s the livebarn effect. We have some former echl guys and some D1 guys come out occasionally and even they look slow on the livebarn cam despite completely flying through the zone whenever they’re on the ice. I started bringing a gopro to watch my net play and it looks a lot faster
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u/OrdinaryInternet 7d ago
Wonder if y’all use livebarn, we don’t pay as a team but individuals who want to have access to watch can pay to watch a rink. Neat service, albeit niche.
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u/WatercressPersonal60 7d ago
It is livebarn. I think it is done as an individual but he gives his credentials out to the whole team.
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u/plaidverb 7d ago
I now want there to be an “overweight, middle-aged” cricket league.
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u/Cats_in_my_ears 7d ago
Looks like there already is one
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u/-The-Term- 7d ago
It is called indian premier league.
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u/nomnommish 7d ago
It is called indian premier league.
You can call the IPL a lot of things but calling it a league of overweight middle aged men is just plain stupid wrong. That would be like calling the NBA a league of retired old people.
Sometimes you just get dumber from reading things on the internet and I frankly feel like that after reading your post.
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7d ago
For context, the Indian Premier League is the 2nd biggest sports league on earth by revenue, right after America's NFL.
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u/dirtyshits 7d ago
Lol why are you getting downvoted?
In it's earliest years it was definitely filled with older international players or guys who were recently retired but over the years(as it's popularity and $ have gone up) it's actually now THE premier league to play. Only international level cricket has a leg on it but that makes sense considering you are playing for the country.
The who's who of cricket play in the league. I guess people really don't know a thing about cricket.
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u/nomnommish 7d ago
If I had to guess, I am getting downvoted because people love to get racist and stereotypical when it comes to South Asians and basically anything related to the Indian subcontinent.
I mean, look at the upvotes on the post I replied to. It was a patently absurd and utterly false. It's even more ironical because the IPL has tons of international players and basically represents the "best of the best" cricketers. And the days of unfit cricketers are long gone and fitness is a huge deal for most national level players.
Sure you might have a few unfit players here and there who make up for it with extraordinary talent but so does baseball.
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u/No-Advice-6040 7d ago
Indeed. These days players do well for their country so they can fetch a good salary when it comes to being picked for the IPL.
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u/HairyH00d 7d ago
You sound like you know your cricket. What league is this clip from?
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u/nomnommish 7d ago
You sound like you know your cricket. What league is this clip from?
This is some no-name local league. They're also playing with tennis balls and not cricket balls and the players are clearly not athletic.
Or this could be some local celebrity one-off promotional match.
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u/thodgson 7d ago
Dads who think they are still in "great shape" with "athletic ability" need only apply.
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u/plaidverb 7d ago
Age is a dick; you can’t know that you’ve lost an ability until you try to use it again, usually to hilarious results.
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u/TheGreatZarquon 7d ago
This is exactly how I realized that I had indeed passed my 40th birthday. Tried for a jumpshot, and both knees and my back went out at the same time when I came back down. All I could do was just lie there for a while contemplating the meaning of pain.
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u/hirsuteladiestophere 7d ago
Just wait until you've pulled a muscle in your back after lifting a laundry basket
You'll feel MUCH older than 40
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u/am0x 7d ago
I tried to race my sister a couple of years ago after a few drinks with our significant others egging us on.
I was in my mid 30s she was 40.
I pulled a hammy and went down hard.
Then a year later, I bought a new mountain bike. Second day out I wrecked and broke my elbow.
Only injuries I had before that growing up playing sports was a sprained ankle and broken nose.
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u/Sonofaconspiracy 7d ago
I play local cricket and it's just full of this. You think this is bad, I've seen worse. I once had a teammate have a catch hit of his own bowling. Only had to take a couple steps to reach it. Somehow, on a perfect dry day, he slipped over as he went to catch it and the ball hit his nuts. To top it off, the bloke who had hit it ended up staying in and making 135. Absolutely shockingly bad play by overweight cricket tragics is the norm
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u/SirAdrian0000 7d ago
I think they should just have one regular person in every Olympic event. It will let regular people get a chance to go to the olympics and also let us see exactly how much better they are when all the finishes are farther apart then fractions of seconds.
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u/WoodyMellow 7d ago
How to turn a single into a four.
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u/fatbob42 7d ago
By the time it went over the boundary they might have run 5 anyway :)
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u/nonstick_banjo1629 7d ago
Whose uncle is that lmao
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u/PeaceKeeperl231 7d ago
the way he just accepts his fate and lies flat
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u/an0mn0mn0m 7d ago
/r/therewasanattempt would appreciate this too.
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u/xMeowImDaddyx 7d ago
OPs title shows that this was essentially ripped right from there too
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u/thatHadron 7d ago
Doubt it, it's getting posted there every few hours, don't think they want another one
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u/Dezib 7d ago
Guess where the bot stole the title from?
I don't think it was intended to WatchPeopleDieInside to stop the ball
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u/BrightWubs22 7d ago edited 7d ago
This post hardly fits this sub. We get less than a second of the guy's immediate reaction.
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u/SpacecraftX 7d ago
Once the ball goes out it’s an automatic 4 runs to the other team.
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u/WarConsigliere 7d ago
It'd be four directly from the shot. But once the guy's fielded it the four are overthrows.
The odds are that by the time he's shaping to throw it in the batsmen have run one and turned for a second, so they'd get credited for those plus the overthrow boundary, probably totalling 6.
There was one test where the West Indian player (Joel Garner, I think, but I may be wrong), let the ball slip out of his hand and it went over the fence behind him for six overthrows - making a rare 8 on the shot.
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u/raath666 7d ago
Is it though? Since, the throw never crossed the stumps. I think this should be considered a miss field and not overthrow or byes.
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u/WarConsigliere 7d ago
Yeah, it is. As soon as he chose to throw it in it's a wilful act. Not a good one, but the will was there.
Law 19.8:
19.8 Overthrow or wilful act of fielder If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be:
any runs for penalties awarded to either side; and
the allowance for the boundary; and
the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
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u/ralgrado 7d ago
I think he might be laughing at himself when he accepted what he just did.
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u/MoreCockThanYou 7d ago
That final desperate heave to get the ball back to the infield, only to knee-jerk boot the thing over his own head and under the barrier … truly sublime.
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u/pat_speed 7d ago edited 7d ago
That could have single worse ball played ever in cricket, terrible bowl, terrible shot and that fielding mate
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u/Drongo17 7d ago
Searing outswinger, but gloriously timed to the rope for 4 despite a gallant diving effort from the fielder
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u/soopermat 7d ago
Why is this televised?
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u/Standard-Potato-2067 7d ago
In India people will watch cricket even if it's under 5 tournament lol
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u/TenaciousDumpling 7d ago
An under-5 game would be adorable though, I’d watch that.
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u/Torringtonn 7d ago
As someone who just had my son play under 5 little league...
You don't want that. It is cute. For maybe 20 minutes. And unless you're invested in it because of your kid in it and you know their teammates it gets boring real quick.
However a clip show of an under 5s tournament with the best/cutest plays would probably be amazing.
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u/MercenaryBard 7d ago
Disney+ lost millions of subscribers and everybody blamed one thing or another, but the real reason was that they lost the rights to stream Cricket in India
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u/SnooBooks1701 7d ago
Boy, some American executive didn't understand cricket if they let that one happen
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u/Standard-Potato-2067 7d ago
Not just cricket.. they dropped f1 broadcasting as well... Days are numbered for Disney hotstar in india
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u/crimsonvipor 7d ago
Probably a live stream, not tv. Could be wrong.
But considering the graphics are a knock off of the ICC's, probably a live stream then.
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u/quick20minadventure 7d ago
India has a great number of applications which will facilitate scorecards, teams, live score checking and even live streaming of any user generated leagues.
Like, you can use that app for free to live stream cticlet tournament between your cat and your dog.
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u/elonbrave 7d ago
My laughter has me shaking violently while holding a sleeping baby.
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u/NetITGeeks 7d ago
This is one of best comedy I have ever seen. This is even funnier when it is not scripted.
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u/gizry 7d ago
Can someone help explain the results of this to those of us who have no idea how cricket is played
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u/count_takeshi2 7d ago
The fielder is trying to stop the ball from getting to the edge of the pitch, the batsman stands to gain 4 points if it gets there. And it does.
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u/coppersocks 7d ago
Yeah this guys whole point is to prevent the ball from going over that rope.
When you’re batting you’re essentially trying to score “runs” in one of two ways:
Hit the ball far enough away for long enough to run to the opposite wicks (for every run there it’s 1 run, then if you run back it’s 2, run again it’s 3, etc)
OR get the ball to cross the boundary ( if it crosses without hitting the floor it’s 6 runs, 4 if it does).
So this guys job is three fold
- Try to catch the ball which will get the batsman out of the game.
- Failing that then get the ball back to the area around the wicks as quickly as possible as a batsman can get caught out whilst he is running so doing so will stop him attempting to score any more.
- Failing that than *just don’t let the bloody ball cross the boundary *
As you can see he spectacularly failed on all counts and ends up helping the batsman to an easy 4 points.
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u/PixelForgDev 7d ago
> Try to catch the ball which will get the batsman out of the game.
Just a small clarification for others(probably unneeded), it only counts if the ball was caught without it hitting the ground first
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u/coppersocks 7d ago
No once the ball crosses the boundary then it’s either the 4 or 6 you get. Nothing more. And no, generally in cricket once the ball is in the hands of a fielder it’s a matter of a second or two that it’s back with either the bowler or wicket keeper who can run the batsman out.
Also you generally know whether it’s crossing the boundary or not (apart from freak incidents like this). So no, it’s really rare that the batsman will ever score more than 3 runs, let alone 4. Especially given how good at throwing and catching the fielders are in the high levels of the game.
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u/throwawayplusanumber 7d ago
Baseball was developed from cricket. Basically the fielder is ideally trying to catch the batter out, but since he missed that chance, he is trying to get the ball back to home plate (wicket) and/or the catcher (wicket keeper) as quickly as possible.
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u/account22222221 7d ago
This was an excellent play, worth almost unheard of 15 wickets. A lot of people are misinterpreting this as a fuck up but they just don’t understand how cricket is played!
Similar to curling the fielder can’t TOUCH the ball to control it until it leaves the outer ring. Instead he is using a series of very intricate wiffs to guide the ball to the part of the field he wants.
Then once the ball leaves the outer zone he is allowed to ‘chuck’ the ball, but knowing this was the last pitch of the set he does a trick play to fool the opposing teams watchers. He throws hard to to hard out left but instead uses his foot to deflect it soft right. Just off screen in the original clip you can see the watchers tripping themselves as they dive in the wrong direction!
This not only gives the runner a ton of extra time to score but it also sets the opponent to start of their next go at bad it a really bad spot, not unlike a good billiards player leaving the cue in exactly the spot they want to set up for the next shot!
This dude is one of the old greats of the sport. He’s retired and out of shape, but he’s just that good that he still putting on a fucking clinic of high level cricket here!
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u/RotrickP 7d ago
Inside the park home run if you know baseball, which is 4 points instead of it going over the fence and being six
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u/Calm_State1230 7d ago
that’s so great. the way he just lay down with his hands folded over his chest and accepted defeat.
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u/eyecnothing 7d ago
After it bounced off his foot he threw up his hands and just said, "fuck it" and died. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/SylancerPrime 7d ago
I can not, for the life of me, understand cricket... but that was still the most beautiful train-wreck of a play I've ever seen.
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u/ChocDroppa 7d ago
That's the greatest thing I've ever seen in cricket!
Minus Viv Richards batting.
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u/1800-531-8008 7d ago
How much do these players make in a year? Because... I would like to try out after this display.
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u/ElrondHubbards 7d ago
There used to be professional cricketers with a gut. Those days are long gone. Ranatunga and Boonie are a couple of good examples.
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u/SpectralOperator 7d ago
You're leaving out the glorious Inzamam. It was a joy to see him jog between wickets.
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