In a West Indies vs. England match at Scarborough, a throw from the boundary by Michael Holding hit one set of stumps and went on to hit the other set. The batsmen were out of their creases but the umpire was too confused to give either ‘out’. I heard about this today and I remember reading something along these lines about 5 years ago. Can anyone confirm this cricket oddity?
Bonus question -What cricket oddity have you witnessed?
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Knott is the only one showing run out.
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I hadn’t heard of it before, but then I was not following cricket back when he was playing.
A somewhat oddity was when Travis Birt scored 20 runs off 1 legal delivery with 3 sixes and two no balls.
Another was when Australia lost 5 wickets in an over against Pakistan.
Edit: I asked a client at work about this today and he had never heard of it. This client is cricket mad and could tell you who caught Michael Atherton last time he played an innings against Zimbabwe and who the bowler was etc. If he hasn’t heard of it I have my doubts that it happened, but you never know. That client has seen every match in Australia and around the world Australia has played in the past 22 years!
Very strange to hear but I wasn’t even born during that period so probably someone else should have a better idea about whether it really happened.It’s odd that Umpire didn’t gave any one of the batsman out,probably the first set of stumps which was the player who failed to make that end must’ve been given out.
Bonus Question: In an ODI some 11-12 years back(sorry I can’t recollect the teams that were playing),two batsman for running for a couple but that’s not all there was as many as 4 overthrows in that ball and 4 more extra runs by batsman for that single ball,the bowler was failing to collect the ball on three of those occasions although they were simple returns.
I doubt this is true. For one thing, an international match would never have been played at Scarborough. A festival or charity match, maybe – and strange things can happen at such events.
That neither batsman was given out I find hard to credit. It is far more likely that the umpires had a hard time deciding which was out, and that the story grew with the telling.
Haven’t heard of it.
BQ. I didn’t see it but heard it on the radio. Dave Renneberg was bowling in SA and let a bumer fly. The batsmen middled ot straight to short backward square. The fielder, Eric Freeman, missed the ball completely and the shot cannoned off his head for the catch to be taken at 2nd slip. Freeman went off for stitches and came right back on.
i am not quite sure about that story but i happened to have heard this story few years back.
and coming to ur bonus question-i think when bangladesh defeated australia on june 18 25 that’s the weirdest think i know of in cricket (not the weirdest though)
That’s not impossible. Why were the umpires confused? Clearly, the batsman who was at the end, of which the stumps were first broken, was out. Or am I taking this too lightly and missing something?
NEVER HEARD OF IT
BQ:Bangladesh defeating India when Sachin scored 1th century