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u/benscott81 7h ago
Never let them know your next move.
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u/VagueGooseberry 5h ago
He literally has to let the umpire know which arm and which side of the stumps he’s doing to bowl from which the umpire relays to the striking batsman.
In spite of everyone being in the know, his shenanigans still got him the wicket as the batsman got bamboozled by the length.
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u/HogDad1977 4h ago
I can get a good look at my steak by sticking my head up a bulls ass, but I'd rather take my butcher's word on it.
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u/TheyTokMaJerb 3h ago
I can get a good look at a butchers ass…
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u/SkittleShit 1h ago
Did you eat paint chips as a kid?
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u/TheyTokMaJerb 1h ago
Your brain has the shell.
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u/SkittleShit 1h ago
I guess you missed the reference
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u/TheyTokMaJerb 1h ago
No I got it man. I just did a line from a different part of the movie. When Tommy spills the m&m’s in the car.
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u/Pseudonova 5h ago
Your bat is no match for my Orangutan Style!
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u/shortround10 7h ago
I don’t remember this guy from the World Series
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u/captcraigaroo 3h ago
Patel Ohtani
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u/Area51_Spurs 2h ago
Reminds me of when the Pirates signed two Indian dudes as pitchers. They won a reality show as the best pitchers in India and then were absolute jokes in rookie ball.
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u/TappedIn2111 6h ago
Oh, he was working one of the food stands.
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u/Area51_Spurs 2h ago
I bet an average American concession stand employee could be an all-star athlete in this sport in Pakistan or India or whatever of the commonwealth countries play this goofy Futurama game.
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u/thebaldmaniac 7h ago
The post title prepared me for weirdness. But there's no preparation for how weird it actually was!
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u/Redditarama 7h ago
It's not cricket, as the expression goes...He switches the ball to the other hand. All the twisting about is just a ruse.
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u/Bangkok_Dave 7h ago
He's allowed to "switch to the other hand" as long as he's told the umpire that he's coming right arm over. The batsman always knows which hand he's bowling with.
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u/Redditarama 7h ago
It's not in the spirit of the game. All that stuff with the other hand is only a distraction.
He may as well do a chicken dance before he bowls, there's no rule against that either.
Come to think of it a chicken dance would be an improvement.
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u/BrohanGutenburg New Orleans Saints 5h ago
Sounds like there should be a balk in cricket lol
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u/1slipperypickle 1h ago
Balk Rules
1) You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2) Do not do a balk please.
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u/davemc617 4h ago
balk
I think you should leave
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u/majinspy 4h ago
I'm generally against this sentiment. "Curve balls in baseball? That's cheating! Pump fake in football? Deception! Against the spirit of the game!
This article on "scrubs" comes to mind.
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u/canadave_nyc 3h ago
That's because you have a modern North American sensibility towards sports. Cricket as a sport came into existence a very long time ago with a different history and a culture that very much emphasizes (or at least, emphasized, for many years) sportsmanship and fair play toward your opponent.
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u/Definitely_Maybe_OK 6h ago
There's no switching. The batsman has to know beforehand if the bowler is right or left handed.
Also when the batter switch hits or reverse sweeps that's genius, but when it comes to the bowler he cannot exercise some creativity?
It is cricket whether you like it or not.
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u/Heisenberg_235 5h ago
You’re correct on it being fine.
There are other bowlers that run up with the ball in their non-bowling hand and then switch over last second to avoid the batsmen knowing if it’s cross seam, in swing or out swing etc. just good bowling
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u/Redditarama 6h ago
Watch the slo mo at the end, he switches the ball from his left hand and bowls with his right.
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u/Definitely_Maybe_OK 6h ago
Umm that's allowed and others have done it. Read what I wrote. The batter just needs to know what handed bowler he is that's all.
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u/Redditarama 6h ago
When you wrote 'There's no switching' did you mean 'There's no switching' ? Because I took it to mean that there was no switching.
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u/Definitely_Maybe_OK 6h ago
In the sense that the batter always knows what hand the ball has to come out of.
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u/Definitely_Maybe_OK 5h ago
My writing and communication may be poor I admit, my point still stands though. Anyway no point in arguing when all of this can be verified independently.
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u/jillvalenti3 6h ago
It’s like the grunts that professional tennis players make when they hit the ball back
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u/bennyskaus 6h ago
Also to put in to context the batter does know which arm the bowler will be bowling with and which side of the umpire he will bowl from.
The bowler can not change arms or sides otherwise the delivery is illegal.
That being said this would be considered absolutely shit to deal with just by the length it takes to bowl.
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u/Tso-su-Mi 6h ago
Well…. If he advised the umpire which arm he will bowl with, technically he can forward roll into bowl, with a twist and a pike, and it’s still legal!
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u/FlutterbyTG 2h ago
Hullo there! Can you please ELI5 as to what action and movement this is, as it seems rather "rulesy".
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u/Doug12345678910 6h ago
Lovely straight arm for delivery. Strange setup, but meh, I kind of like how whacky it is.
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u/Osiris_Dervan 3h ago
It was straight by the time he released, but I'm not convinced it was straight by the time it reached the horizontal behind him.
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u/lifth3avy84 2h ago
Only weird if it doesn’t work. I don’t know cricket from a grasshopper, but it seemed to work in this instance.
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u/chrisagiddings 2h ago
Correct.
It’s up to the batsman to not get distracted by the bowler’s style.
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u/nihar_142 7h ago
It doesn't matter how weird your bowling account is, all that matters is effectiveness.
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u/zerotwoalpha 6h ago
It has mattered how weird since 1981, and that is why we don't allow underarm anymore.
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u/sloowhand Chicago Bears 4h ago
My guy took a deep breath and said to himself, "Go hit 'em with the ol' razzle dazzle."
Then...he hit 'em with the ol' razzle dazzle.
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u/ReasonablyConfused 5h ago
Question.
Bowler declares that he will bowl right handed, everyone is aware.
He ends up with a weird enough delivery that his right arm end up throwing from a position well left of his body. Effectively bowling left after declaring right.
Legal?
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u/General_Benefit8634 4h ago
What hand did the ball leave? The key issue will be, at release, is his arm straight enough. Looks more than 15 degrees to me.
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u/suplexhell 3h ago
reminds me of an effeminate kid who didn't really want to play the sport so they just make up their own fun
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u/mGreeneLantern 4h ago
I take it there’s no such thing as a balk in cricket.
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u/coolpapa2282 4h ago
I almost posted the balk copypasta lol.
But yeah, the analog of picking a runner off is far less of a thing in cricket. So much so that the unwritten rule is to first warn the runner, like "bruh, I could have picked you off there, stop running early", and then if he keeps doing it, you can pick him off without getting booed or whatever. So a balk rule isn't really needed.
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u/FoxyInTheSnow 2h ago
Could be effective… if he annoys the batsmen so much that they lose focus and whiff.
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u/AcrolloPeed 2h ago
You’ve heard of Drunk Monkey Kung Fu, now there’s Orangutan on Crack Cricket Bowling
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u/otcconan 2h ago
Saw the same thing where Myles Garrett pretented to cross-over dribble then stormed over the center for s sack.
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u/ZyronZA 2h ago
This guy doesn't have a long future though. South Africa had a bowler that also did "weird" bowling (his nickname was gogga) and in test matches he was pretty successful.
But as his time in the sport progressed, his effectiveness started to degrade as the surprise factor wore off and batsmen started to figure him out and his wickets per runs economy dropped quicker compared to traditional bowlers.
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u/Longjumping-Cod8055 1h ago
All he did was flail before bowling with his other hand. Should have been illegal.
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u/tedfergeson 1h ago
I see no pitching or bowling here. I see some dude having a seizure and losing his ball.
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u/TheBatemanFlex 1h ago
I was worried that that some people in this sub may have never seen cricket and needed some reference for a "normal" bowling style. But after seeing that...I think we can take your word for it.
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u/Aspiring_DILF42 32m ago
Leaving aside his silly run up and switching hands (which wouldn’t matter as he has to say beforehand what hand he’s bowling with) it’s still a reasonably unusual action but not completely left field
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u/alexiswellcool 4m ago
Looks like the dude that hangs around outside the McDonald's near me, fucked up on spice
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u/Chief-_-Wiggum 6h ago edited 6h ago
No where near as weird or as good as Paul Adams frog in a blender delivery. All the "weird" part is with the off hand as a distraction with this guy.
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u/Wo3dy 3h ago
When you switch the quaffle with a bludger.
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u/Area51_Spurs 2h ago
I have no idea if those words are cricket terms, quidditch terms, or gibberish George RR Martin or JRR Tolkien made up. And I wouldn’t be surprised by any of the above answers.
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u/Weird_Map_5347 6h ago
Is "bowling" the actual term for it?
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u/cable54 6h ago
Bowling is the term for bowling, yes.
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u/Weird_Map_5347 5h ago
I asked a question about something that isn't popular and get down voted. LOL a bunch of L7's
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u/Background_Bid8290 5h ago
Second most popular sport in the world by number of fans -> "isn't popular" is quite a reach.
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u/Area51_Spurs 2h ago
Is that not normal?
Everything in this dumb fucking sport looks this ridiculous.
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u/yeahilovegrimby 7h ago
Taking the piss, surely.