>Unluckiest Batsman

Today we had a match under 15 tournament held in a nice area lovely ground lovely crowd full of parents hoping their kids do well in a 25 over match.

The other team won the toss decided to bat first,
In 25 overs they only made some thing around 67 runs,
Then comes our innings I opened the batting with this other guy,
I played the first 5 overs nicely,Then one ball goes down the LEG SIDE hitting my pads,THe bowler shouts howzat not to forget there was also an edge The freaken umpire gives me out,

I was really mad at the umpire it was one awfull decision given by him It was the worst decision by an umpire I have ever seen,

From That day I have keep calling my self The unlucky batsman because I have no luck either I get out Run out or I umpire gives bad decisions,

any of you unlucky while batting because I am The one :

I have been unlucky too at various times when i was playing cricket when young.. i used to mostly get out LBW to bad decisions or i am given out to a caught behind when i did not nick the ball to the keeper.. it once happened that i refused to leave the pitch after being given out caught behind.. and i plucked out the stumps and ran back home with people chasing me!!!

Thats part of the game......just have to accept it.....You are not the only batsman in the world who gets bad decisions from umpires.....In my 2nd season of 1st grade cricket in Newcastle I was only dismissed fairly by the bowler or got playing a bad shots on 6 occasions out 20 innings I played in that season.......after which I did start thinking that I was the most unluckiest batsman in the world, but you just have accept it and move on.......and remember that everything has a way of levelling out sooner or later......so maybe next time you may survive a plumb LBW decision or get survive a caught behind.....who knows!!!

thats cricket. move on and get over it

Well unless you actually did get an inside-edge, I think it would be very difficult for you to judge whether the ball would be going on to hit the stumps. Apart from that, I have no advice. Maybe you can make sacrifices or something.

I was given LBW once (cause that was the only way I would have gotten out) by a biased umpire while playing at Shivaji Park, Mumbai. Later I came to know that the umpire was a friend of the opposition team. The match was set-up really well. I came at 5 down and when the 9th wicket fell, I had scored around 27-30 runs and was batting really well. We required 18 runs to win with one wicket remaining. But we played really well. I remember I also managed getting single (1 was real tight) at last ball of the over to keep the last batsman away from strike. We required 7 runs and there were 2-3 overs more i think left. My partner got a lucky boundary of one ball and then we ran a leg-bye... So now we required only 2 runs. They had all their fielders back so i planned to charge the bowler not to hit but just push at the ball and run two if possible. But i charged and the bowler bowled it down the leg side too and i was good 3-4 ft outside the crease when the ball hit my pads while I was trying to flick it. The bowler went up I was given out!!! I did not know whether to laugh or cry. A big controversy followed later... but the seniors in our team (2 adults) calmed everything and the opposite team won by 1 run. That defeat still hurts me.

P.S. I got my revenge later when I scored 30-40 odd when we required 50+ runs of 7-8 overs left with only 2 wickets left against the same team. I do not remember me running that fast ever in my life.

I was playing cricket with friends and adults, there were 6 of us kids, so 3 kids on each team and 8 addults.

The "Blues" had made a huge total of 306 all out in 48 overs. (they had a pathan like Afridi) I had figures of 5/46 in 9 overs, opening the bowling for 5 overs, and bowling 4 at the end.

So my team opens the innings, and I come at #5, with the Blues introducing their spinners at 54/3 at 13 overs. I play my natural game and i sweep, and slog, and take boundaries how they come.

And then, i was 99* in the 47th over. I had 99 off 110 balls. Score was 286/6.

I go for a big sixer. Guess waht? I had an inside edge onto my pads, and the bowler screams "Howzat!" I was given out.

CLEAR inside edge. Kind of like Shahid Afridi's dismissal in The Abu Dhabi Series in the 3rd match.

99*, and he gave me out.

We still won in the end, and i was Man of Match, but it still saddens me that i was given out for a clear inside edge.

zMario said:

I was playing cricket with friends and adults, there were 6 of us kids, so 3 kids on each team and 8 addults.

The "Blues" had made a huge total of 306 all out in 48 overs. (they had a pathan like Afridi) I had figures of 5/46 in 9 overs, opening the bowling for 5 overs, and bowling 4 at the end.

So my team opens the innings, and I come at #5, with the Blues introducing their spinners at 54/3 at 13 overs. I play my natural game and i sweep, and slog, and take boundaries how they come.

And then, i was 99* in the 47th over. I had 99 off 110 balls. Score was 286/6.

I go for a big sixer. Guess waht? I had an inside edge onto my pads, and the bowler screams "Howzat!" I was given out.

CLEAR inside edge. Kind of like Shahid Afridi's dismissal in The Abu Dhabi Series in the 3rd match.

99*, and he gave me out.

We still won in the end, and i was Man of Match, but it still saddens me that i was given out for a clear inside edge.

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LBW's are evil

lol agreed Lbw is evil...

indiancricketer said:

lol agreed Lbw is evil...

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I'm a bowler, I don't

FreddieFan said:

I'm a bowler, I don't

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Ditto. Infact,LBWs are all I have(you don't get many wickets bowling straight non-swing/seam slowish deliveries). Inside edges and mistimed slogs help too .

ZoraxDoom said:

Ditto. Infact,LBWs are all I have(you don't get many wickets bowling straight non-swing/seam slowish deliveries). Inside edges and mistimed slogs help too .

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I agree that LBW's are all the bowlers have in non-swing/seam bowling conditions but the quality of umpires that we have at the level we guys play... 50% of LBW decisions are wrong and are influenced by the way the bowler appeals (loudness) and other non-cricketing reasons.

rahulk666 said:

50% of LBW decisions are wrong and are influenced by the way the bowler appeals (loudness) and other non-cricketing reasons.

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This is why Hawkeye needs to be brought in. All thats needed is 6 fixed cameras (3 for each end) Decisions are actually given in seconds, it's the rendering of the graphics that takes so long. It's around 99% accurate now, which is a lot better than umpires.

Will the hawkeye technology be able to give the decision (I mean literally the umpire getting a response from thrid umpire) in less than 5 seconds of bowler appealing?? If not then its wasting time. We rather not want a match to halt every ball (worst case scenario where every ball hits the pads and bowler appeals) for minute or two for decision making.

but if we do that, eventually there will be no umpires left, all be done by computers!