Your best bowl

One of my best was to one of my school mates! It pitched a good way outside leg stump and knocked the off stump out of the ground. It was bowled flatter and quicker. It was a real big ripper!!

hmm back a few years now,  Their captain was on strike and wholloped 13 off the previouse over from the other opening bowler. i managed to bowl 2 dot balls to him, 3rd ball i bowled a huge, late inswinging yorker, he was playing a square drive, but just as he planted his front foot, the ball swung back in from outside off to take the base of leg stump. was so funny, i was celebating as he finished playing his square drive. the whole delivery seemed to happen in slow motion.

ha, I am sure he was seething inside at you sorting him out

We were playing against a club from Essex who were reknowned for their strength as a batting team. I was brought on maybe 2nd change to bowl little left arm dobbers round the wicket. After going for a single in my first over I found myself bowling the second at their No 4 who was clearly their star player.

He works a couple away but couldn't hit the gaps then off the 4th ball hit a good drive which point made an excellent save on. The dot balls gave me the confidence to hold the next ball back a touch. It looped perfectly and drifted into the right hander then bounced and straightened. The batsman didn't do a whole lot wrong and had covered up so well that I didn't actually see the ball hitting the top of the off stump, but I'd totally done him in the air to the extent that even the ultra hard to please skipper/keeper was raving about it!

Funnily the effect of seeing their best player dismissed like that reduced them to some sort of paralysis against me and even though I didn't bowl all that well afterwards they were terrified of playing any shots and the only other run I conceded was an edge between slip and gully (6-4-2-2 by the way).


Edited by Clobber - 17 April 2007 at 11:25am

This is a topic about your best ever bowl. A jaffa that beat the batsman all ends up. The one that you think of every time you run in to bowl. I'll give you an example:

My best ever bowl was in the final game of the season. I was called over by my generous captain and he told me to set the field, so my attacking instincts got the better of me and I set the most attacking field ever with no men on the boundary and the furthest back man at square leg. Well my first ball, the guy tried to slog me and it went straight up in the air to mid off and he caught it. It was a good sign.
   Since this was in a 2020 match I needed to bowl well for my field to work. I let away a few boundaries but most balls were good and 3.5 overs later I was 2/18. I was happy although I wanted one more wicket desperately so I thought about using a variation. I decided on the googly as the guy at the other end was on 0 from 13 balls. I told the guy at mid off what I was going to do but he just smiled because he had no idea what a googly was. I ran in to bowl and to my great delight it pitched a few inches outside off, I held my breath because sometimes my googlies dont turn, but this one turned and hit him and it would have knocked leg out if it hadn't hit his pads. The umpires finger went up and I was delightes, my finest ever wicket.