two faves:
The commentary as well
“It’s like a runaway… cart there and eventually took… someone to stop it”
As though he was trying to think of a more colourful description but couldn’t
Stephan FECK!
Love the story about how that hammers mascot came about
F1 fails, like when drivers pull up to the wrong pit crew
I seem to remember this was as Cowboys Stadium had just opened too (there was loads of stupid things going on there too, like people kicking the ball against the giant screen than hangs above the pitch). Partiularly funny given it’s the Cowboys and no one was seriously hurt
Roger Federer, one handed backhand down the line for a winner. Opponent visibly questions the existence of god.
Watching federer in general
Not been the same since he rogered Taylor Swift
Looks at all those crutches
Quite a few of these, but this one’s my favourite…
In keeping with the professional thing descending into amateurishness theme: when a batsman with little to no bowling pedigree is turned to when all the proper bowlers have failed and s/he chucks down some utter filth which results immediately in a wicket.
Root is quite good for this although he bowls often enough for it not to be THAT remarkable; Alistair Cook’s wicket taking comedy delivery was much more fun:
Was playing cricket this evening, and one of the opposition bats hit one of the loveliest straight drives, so those. The kinda shots where the batsman just leans into hitting the ball, without really trying to hit it.
the two greatest things in cricket are:
I once bowled somebody around their legs with a wayward outswinger as they nonchalantly left the ball. Was lovely.
Another cricket one, you don’t see as much now as I think they changed the rules.
Batsmen with a runner, even if injured natural instinct means they set off for a run. Somebody gets run out, chaos ensues
whichever joyless jobsworth ruled out having a runner clearly does not enjoy the dramatic genre ‘high farce’
When Vaughan got Tendulkar through the gate
THIS IS NOW THE CRICKET THREAD
Reverse swing:
