Who Says Cricket is not a Funny Game

Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 ounces."
Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground and replies, "Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it!"

(Incident described in "From the Pavilion End" by Harold "Dickie" Bird)

"Bomber" Wells, a spin bowler and great character, played for Glocuestershire and Nottinghamshire. He used to bat at No.11 since one couldn't bat any lower. Of him, they used to paraphrase Compton's famous words describing an equally inept runner.

"When he shouts 'YES' for a run, it is merely the basis for further negotiations!" Incidentally, Compton was no better. John Warr said, of Compton "He was the only person who would call you for a run and wish you luck at the same time."

Anyway, when Wells played for Gloucs, he had an equally horrendous runner as the No.10. During a county match, horror of horrors... both got injured. *Both* opted for runners when it was their turn to bat. Bomber played a ball on the off, called for a run, forgot he had a runner and ran himself. Ditto at the other end. In the melee, someone decided that a second run was on. Now we had *all four* running. Due to the confusion and constant shouts of "YES" "NO", eventually, *all* of them ran to the same end. Note - at this point in time, the entire ground is rolling on the floor laughing their behinds out. One of the fielders - brave lad - stops laughing for a minute, picks the ball and throws down the wicket at the other end.

Umpire Alec Skelding looks very seriously at the four and calmly informs them "One of you buggers is out. I don't know which. *You* decide and inform the bloody scorers!"

Playing in a cricket match I was standing at the non-striker's end. The batsman at the other end was batting on 49 and was quite anxious to get to his 50. The bowler bowled a fast full toss ball and in his excitement the batsman hit him for a straight drive. I saw the ball coming at me like a runaway train. Realizing I couldn't get out of the way of the ball, I put my bat infront of the ball. The ball hit my bat and popped up for an easy catch to the bowler. To this day he hasn't forgiven me for getting him out at 49.

When India visited England 1986( I am not sure about the year, but Kapil smashed 4 sixes in an over to avoid the follow -On ) Raman Lamba (as a 12th man) was substituting K. Srikanth. He forgot to go back to pavilion even after Srikanth was back on to the field. Meanwhile India was having 12 fielders on the field for complete one over.

I remember this incident from the Indian tour of West Indies in 82-83. Actually, it was in the Indian tour of Windies in 97 that either Charu sharma or Harsha Bhogle, I'm not sure which of them, related it. Anyway, here it goes. It was the second test match at Queens Park Oval, Port of Spain. We had lost the first test match, though thats hardly related to the incident. One of the guys in the crowd had a bet with two others that Sunny would score more than Greenidge and Haynes combined!!! The day began and Holding breezed in to pack Sunny back, though not before he score a single. This guy who waged all his savings on Sunny that the best thing to do was to leave the venue and never to be seen again. India went on to go ahead and make all fo 175 before making the Windies bat again. The other two who were for the greeny-haynes combo were enraged that the rat had slinked off after what had happened, not honouring the bet. As it happen, Sandhu came in to bowl and before anyone could realise what had happened, both Greenidge and Haynes were back in the pavilion on individual scores of 0 and 0!!! I really dont know what happened to the bet though.....

There's this anecdote aboutt Chandrashekar, once in England, getting a batsman plumb in front twice. Both times, he was turned down. A ball later, he sent one through and bowled the batsman. Chandra goes, Howzaaat? The umpire looks puzled and says, he's bowled. Chandra's reply was a classic: "I know he is bowled, but is he out?"

Hi Prem you missed two funny incidents by Indian umpires one was in Titan cup match between India and SAfrica when the umpire went to the boundry to check for a sixer or four without asking third umpire.Another one was when the umpire while raising his hand to give Jadeja out stopped midway and adjusted his hat.This match between India and Srilanka

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