dear cricket, what are your greatest plays?

transatlantic mutual understanding and respect week is *go*

altho obv you'll all agree these pwn baseball's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0M5s7Xugc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waE8Ew5bejM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwl1TsivvXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AV2Oq8Rn2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfPVB4WP5hk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpnjP3hFfYQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dojDT4CtenU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Lg8m4peCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6gPMq9qOTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngNQW1kEVmg

and one for luck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rprz2LEwU

Kieron Pollard's catch on the boundary against Mumbai in the IPL this year was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4WwiW02JL0

This still gives me goose bumps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2UnMxR3IM

The time that I got caught by the newsie-wewsies by a big bottomed bird with my leg stump! It was a square peg according to the silly mid off ball tamperer!

altho obv you'll all agree these pwn baseball's

i dunno man apparently the greatest cricket shot ever was hit shorter than 99.87% of home runs hit this year

I'm on my phone now, but later you shall quake.

I give you Chris Gayle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBPNwge80U

I'm on my phone now, but later you shall quake.

― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Friday, May 31, 2013 8:50 AM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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how many of those home run hitters switched the bat into their other hand and reversed their stance while the ball was in flight?

not many but also their bats tend to not be like 6 inches wide, that's actually against the rules

maybe if yr bats were bigger you could do cool stuff like that, ever think of that??

Baseball bats are much thicker than cricket bats, though of course you have to get a good contact to hit a home run in baseball. I suspect also that cricket balls are heavier than baseballs.

Right. You savages want distance over finesse, you'll get it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHs8fWaz2cU

^^^this is beyond baseball. it's beyond God

I'm going to post Neil's video again, because fuck me, Gayle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBPNwge80U

The ones he hits off the bowler in yellow (Brett Lee) are just insane. Although we're about to see Brett Lee again in a second...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkrD95WfmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8w6pXV7uRU

decent shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LDBe3qaT0Q

right, after that pornographic excess, let's get back to the classy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQFBj-xZwk

ah, you want shahid afridi? fine, have him. but that's ALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljHQaC_7DcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OevSKhYnzQA

RIGHT, fuck this horrible one-day bollocks, back to the purity of Test cricket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMOhHuVq_o

yahh trick yahh

Just spent 45 minutes down an Afridi / Akhtar rabbit hole. Miss watching Wasim tear it up too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihR54KHS70&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Right. You savages want distance over finesse, you'll get it

loooool dude

i'm just yanking yer chain, but come on, it's hitting a ball with a stick

you want "finesse" and "beauty" and "classiness" and other words we all hate bill plaschke for, that's what pitchers have on bowlers about a million times over

i'm just yanking yer chain, but come on, it's hitting a ball with a stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9IKkXxgbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3HlZ7gpYb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbmdqF31KhU

you want "finesse" and "beauty" and "classiness" and other words we all hate bill plaschke for, that's what pitchers have on bowlers about a million times over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyG5wnW7I0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV09NIY2IXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGP-3tbydY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7UOy5thUig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2yv7OIXKIc

I mean, come the fuck on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGgRK2FAaQ

Oh, and let's have a shout-out to the gentle art of wicketkeeping, seeing as it's what I purvey myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKI8P7IDhM4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv1JKr15tsc

^^^these are mindbending

sure but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onT-zjiG04

excellent counterpoint