what is your worst bat experience?

mine was when one bit me on the neck and I suddenly found I had an aversion to daylight and French cuisine

mine was when i was in the nets, batting really well, middling nearly everything and then, hit one on the toe, and the bat split straight up about 3 inches. it cracked straight through.

Originally posted by Ck_spin In one match, i left my bat at home and was forced to use a size 5 kashmir bat from the school. i don't know how to describe that bat, cheap is probably the best word. You just cant hit balls with that bat. I mean that bat is almost as heavy as the cricket ball. It vibrates like hell when is hit by a ball.

I had the same experience. The only thing i could actually hit properly was a leg glance

I have seen my mates new birthday present, a puma, crack in half, at some
important trials! He did end up getting a new gm hero though.

I have been unbelievably unlucky when it comes to bodyline bowls
(especially concerning boxes)If I wear one, i never get hit there, when I dont
wear one, ouch. every single time

so you have never had a bad experience at all the, spin wiz?

sorry, I apologise, ouch that would have hurt!

getting hit in the eye with anything hurts, I got hit in the eye with a
squashball, the first time I played without goggles! and that hurt.

Originally posted by spin wizard I got hit under the eye while batting. A creeper came and hit the stumps and then I looked around and it hit me under the eye and left it black and blue for a week.

Why weren't you wearing a helmet u muppet!

On a strip of mud (susposedly a pitch) I was of course not wearing a helmet because of the pitch condition, got a fuller length ball. Wham, it hit something, just bounced straight up and got me in the head. Luckily it was only a medium pacer. Had a slight headache but nothing serious.

Probably in a 40-over club match with my team chasing 169 to win, I was on 31 from around 45 balls and we needed 16 runs to win from 3 overs with 2 wickets in hand, I decided then to go and hit 2 fours and a 3 from the third to last over taking me to 42 from around 50 balls so we then needed just 5 to win from the remaining 2 overs. From the first ball of the penultimate over (I'm left-handed) their bowler bowled a yorker at leg stump, I sensed it and jumped to my right so I could play a shot on the off-side. I swung my bat back and heard a crunch. I'd hit my own stumps, and not the ball. And then to make it worse we then lost by 2 runs, I felt like I'd let down my team because I could've defended the shot instead of going for the big shot.

My bat got a huge crack in it when I was batting in the nets, but i wanted a new one anyway so I wasn't too annoyed.

I broke my arm trying to beat a beamer out of the ground a few years back - entirely my fault, played early and over it and it crashed into my right arm, breaking it just below the elbow.

The worst batting experience iv'e had was that i was 2 runs away from from my century and i ran the first one hard when it came to the second one i saw the fielder and he played quite slow so i thought i might aswell take the second because my partner was a tail ender and the ball must of slipped from the fielder's hand and came flying on to my lower neck were the helmet wasn't covering i felt like collapsing but i kept on thinking of my century i made it to the crease but then blacked out for about half a minute before having my partner splash some water on me!!!most of all i made my century and after abit of treatment i carried on to make 203* (not out)but still i was thriving in pain

Edited by gagandeep - 04 January 2007 at 8:27pm

but the guy at the other end was a tailender. The bowling must have been truly shocking if you could score even with delayed reactions. You must have had a terrible captain too, I would have declared. However, I think it's just 1 terrible liar here.