Beamers

[King Pietersen]

i tend to bowl a few beamers when i start to tire, the ball just starts to slip out of my hand due to my wrist position or something. It's quite annoying but i'm sure it'll sort itself out. It tends to happen when i try and put more pace behind it. I am starting to generate a decent action via practising in my garden though, getting good pace and bowling with a Brett Lee-esque action, seems to help with pace significantly.

 

[Leicester Fox]

both were in the same test match, on the same day too.

 

[Cricket_god]

both were in the same test match, on the same day too.

Yes ,I Wanted to know if a batsman advances down the pitch and the bowler
bowls a beamer then will it a beamer?

 

[Master Khan]

I think bowler doesn't do beamers deliberately because when they do it
they always apologies

 

[Monty57]

I predict some player do when they get angry but most of the time its an accident-i think you can tell by the bowlers reaction after the beamer

 

[BigCrickNan]

IIRC Sreesanth bowled his bouncer in the ODI series and his beamer in the test series.

No he was getting annoyed in the tests with Colly I think, went round the wicket and deliberatly bowled a no-ball by a yard to try and make the bouncer more...err.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I bowled a beamer on purpose once.

Tennis ball cricket, I was bowling pace, batsman had the gall to dance down the track to my bowling, so I beamed him! Didn't get a stumping, but it wasn't a no-ball as he was out of the crease. Dared him to try it again too. He was a fairly good bat, around my age, and I wasn't bowling too badly that day either, so I figured it would be a nice was to indimidate him
And I'd do it again in tennis ball cricket if I had to.


But in hard ball cricket, it is normally accidentall. Can happen to anyone, even spinners. Doing it on purpose there is stupid and dangerous. Let alone the fact that you could kill the batter, you could kill the keeper too!

 

[angryangy]

There's a big difference between bowling short to get wickets and bowling short to hurt the batsmen

Gosh, we have come a long way in 20 years.

 

[MUFC1987]

Professionals wouldn't do it on purpose, your local club cricketer with a grudge might though I guess.

 

[Left_Hander]

Well obvisouly the purpose of bowling is to get wickets. You can't do that by bowling beamers. You are also giving away runs which you wouldn't want to do just so you can hit someone in the head.

Sounds pretty simple to me. Bowl at the stumps and not at the batsmen's head.

 

[Adarsh]

And I'd do it again in tennis ball cricket if I had to.

That's real aggression there.

 

[irottev]

I've seen some which were obviously accidental. I've seen some which i'd question. I wouldn't put it past Sreesanth to do it on purpose.

Still we can't know for sure, so we can't point any fingers.

 

[CortezTheKiller]

I think some bowlers absolutely bowl beamers deliberately.

Let's be rational about this, international bowlers are the very best in their fields. I personally find it very difficult to believe that any top-class seamer could miss his length by the 20-odd yards needed to turn an ordinary ball into a beamer unless, perhaps, he's attempting a complicated slower ball.

Sreesanth's beamer to Pietersen at Trent Bridge was an absolute disgrace, not only was it head-height it swung considerably in flight and KP did well to avoid it. The irony is that he was actually fined half his match fee for a (relatively) harmless barge on Vaughan; the beamer passed without censure, presumably because intent is so hard to prove.

I don't want to single Sreesanth out particularly, but his beamer was the first one I thought of when I saw the thread title. Brett Lee also has a bit of "previous" in this respect; I remember him beaming Abdul Razzaq, which was a heck of a coincidence as Razzaq had sent a headhunter down to Lee earlier in the game.

We live in litigious times so I'm accusing no-one of malice, but I do think it'd be naive in the extreme to think no bowler had ever deliberately beamed someone.

 

[Almost_Austwick]

I would have to say that a majority of beamers (at any level) are accidental - due to the numerous reasons already posted in this thread.

However, there are certain bowlers who seem to bowl them more than others and more often than not they are the ones who have a questionable temperament.