Another retrospective post written on the 29th September 2007. Lightening really does strike twice in the same place. Earlier I blogged about bad sportsmanship when I was playing indoor cricket. If you haven't read the story, I'd advise you to read it first before you read on below.
Yesterday, we played the same team, and because we knew they were tough to beat we entered the game with a stronger lineup than when we previously played them. Unfortunately we lost the game while chasing a very gettable target.
But there was another controversial run-out that happened somewhere in the 3rd partnership. I wasn't keeper at the time, I was fielding on the 3-line, and before the umpire declared over, the batsman walked out of his crease. The quick-thinking keeper knocked the bails over and appealed for the decision, which was, of course, given by the umpire. This didn't go down too well with the opposition. But if they're stupid enough to walk out of their creases while the ball is still in play, and then bitch and moan about this rule or their ignorance of that rule, then frankly those guys should stop playing indoor cricket.
On to the run chase, and we didn't bat well enough to chase their gettable target. In the final over, our wicket keeper was on strike against the very same person who took a swipe at me. The dickhead proceed to bowl all sorts of fast deliveries: some wide and full outside off-stump, some full tosses, some bouncers that would have hit the batsman's head. In a nutshell, our keeper couldn't score of any of those deliveries, and to be fair he is a good batsman, but perhaps he got a bit intimated at the pace or the variety of the deliveries. Though we were playing strike three rules, there were a few extras bowled, so they never reached strike three, even though our keeper couldn't score a single run off his bat.
And as soon as that over ended, the dickhead went up to our keeper and started to mouth off at him. "That's what you get for being cheap!", in reference to that run-out on one of his teammates. No prizes for guessing what our keeper said back at him. To do those sorts of things, which is true bad sportsmanship, just reaffirms how much of a prick and a hypocrite he is.
In future, whenever we get to play this team again, I'll take great pleasure in smashing him for seven, or bowling him through his gate!
Yesterday, we played the same team, and because we knew they were tough to beat we entered the game with a stronger lineup than when we previously played them. Unfortunately we lost the game while chasing a very gettable target.
But there was another controversial run-out that happened somewhere in the 3rd partnership. I wasn't keeper at the time, I was fielding on the 3-line, and before the umpire declared over, the batsman walked out of his crease. The quick-thinking keeper knocked the bails over and appealed for the decision, which was, of course, given by the umpire. This didn't go down too well with the opposition. But if they're stupid enough to walk out of their creases while the ball is still in play, and then bitch and moan about this rule or their ignorance of that rule, then frankly those guys should stop playing indoor cricket.
On to the run chase, and we didn't bat well enough to chase their gettable target. In the final over, our wicket keeper was on strike against the very same person who took a swipe at me. The dickhead proceed to bowl all sorts of fast deliveries: some wide and full outside off-stump, some full tosses, some bouncers that would have hit the batsman's head. In a nutshell, our keeper couldn't score of any of those deliveries, and to be fair he is a good batsman, but perhaps he got a bit intimated at the pace or the variety of the deliveries. Though we were playing strike three rules, there were a few extras bowled, so they never reached strike three, even though our keeper couldn't score a single run off his bat.
And as soon as that over ended, the dickhead went up to our keeper and started to mouth off at him. "That's what you get for being cheap!", in reference to that run-out on one of his teammates. No prizes for guessing what our keeper said back at him. To do those sorts of things, which is true bad sportsmanship, just reaffirms how much of a prick and a hypocrite he is.
In future, whenever we get to play this team again, I'll take great pleasure in smashing him for seven, or bowling him through his gate!
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