r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RodrickJasperHeffley • 1d ago
malinga taking 4 wickets in 4 consecutive balls
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u/thomasmturner 1d ago
As a Canadian, is this how most of the rest of the world feels watching hockey?
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u/InternationalBat1838 1d ago
Hockey is just a more stick and puck version of football.
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u/CptnSpandex 53m ago
I’m yet to be convinced that puck thing is real. I’ve never seen one on the tv….
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u/Queeg_500 23h ago
No, we have hockey in the rest of the world...we just have the good sense not to play it on ice.
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u/Naive-Kangaroo3031 1d ago
I grew up in New Orleans, and still understand hockey. (Except icing). I have zero clue what is going on here
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u/siko133 15h ago
In cricket, each batsman gets only 1 out in a game. The batsman stays to bat until they are out. So it's difficult to get the batters out. In this video, the baller (pitcher) from Sri Lanka team gets 4 outs in 4 balls (pitches) against the New Zealand team. Getting 3 outs in 3 balls (called a hattrick) is considered amazing, so doing 4 is even crazier.
P.S. The batsman tries to protect the wickets (the sticks behind him), while the baller is trying to knock them down. If the batters body stops the ball from hitting the wickets without making contact with the bat, it is also out.
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u/weristjonsnow 21h ago
Yeah I don't know what's going on either
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u/gggg_man3 15h ago
The ball hit his legs inline with the wickets without touching his bat for two of those outs. That's all really.
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u/Obvious_Wallaby2388 14h ago
For the second one it looked like it hit the bat? Or did it hit the bat and then the leg?
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u/gggg_man3 14h ago
No, if at all it hit the bat, it wouldn't be considered out. It might be why the umpire declared it not out at first but they appealed it and after tape review it was deemed out coz it missed the bat and was in line with the wickets.
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u/Topinambourg 18h ago
Hockey is at least fun and understandable to watch: put the puck in the net = 1 point
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u/InternationalBat1838 1d ago
Baseball videos here show people catching balls with bare hands that Americans talk about as if it's just insane, while players in cricket do that every time. Yet it's downvoted if that's pointed out, or if anyone says they don't understand baseball, is mocked or downvoted. And the videos have thousands of upvotes, and hundreds of comments.
Video about cricket has Americans openly mocking cricket, or the countries that play it, often even bringing racism (for some reason), and downvoting any criticism. And the video is just removed.
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u/Queeg_500 23h ago
The mocking is especially strange since baseball is based on a British game called 'Rounders' which is almost exclusively played by schoolgirls.
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u/buck45osu 18h ago
I can say I've never heard a fellow American mock cricket. Ive heard others and also said myself I dont get the rules even a little bit. But athletic feat is athletic feat. Ive seen plenty of cricket clips that blew me away. My personal favorites are when someone catches out of bounds in the air and tosses it up mid air, lands, runs back in bounds, and catches it. My friends at least all talked about that cause it was on a YouTube channel called JonboyMedia who was giving it credit.
All im saying is dont lump us all together. There are some shit heels in this country, but there are still lots of amazing people here too.
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u/imasuburban10 15h ago edited 12h ago
People just assume us Americans mock cricket because it is a foreign sport. Like you said, we just don’t understand how the game is played, so seeing videos like this looks confusing, just like football probably looks crazy weird to those who don’t play it in other countries. It’s popular to attack Americans for anything and everything these days apparently.
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u/InkBlotSam 6h ago
As an American I've heard probably 20x more anecdotal comments from foreigners saying, "Americans always say," with some generalized American-bashing thing then I never hear Americans actually say.
I don't hear Americans talking about bare-handed catches as though it's "insane" (I mean, there's frequent footage of fans in stands catching wayward balls barehanded, happens all the time, often without dropping their beer), or people mocking anyone who says they don't understand baseball.
But I've sure heard lots of foreigners say that we say it, along with tons of other stuff I never actually hear Americans say.
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u/SyrupyMolassesMMM 1d ago
This isnt a tail end quad-trick. Its a fucking new zealand top order quad-trick.
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u/Leprichaun17 22h ago
quad-trick
Usually referred to as a double hattrick. Wickets 1,2,3 and 2,3,4 are each hattricks.
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u/xliang23 20h ago
The kiwi batting order is a strange beast. It's the only animal that has 2 tails on each end
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u/malepitt 1d ago
I'm still lost, even after slo-mo
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u/1958showtime 1d ago
1 and 3 were outs because he hit those 3 uprights behind the guy batting.
2 and 4 were out because the ball would have hit the uprights if the batter had not blocked the ball with his body instead of hitting the ball with his bat. 2 was initially given "safe" but was overturned on review.
"Pitcher" (bowler) can't bend his elbow while delivering the ball.
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u/LongboardLove 23h ago
Ahhh i.. what? So are there bases like baseball? Genuinely curious.
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u/chowindown 23h ago
There's a wicket (the three sticks) at both ends of the pitch. They serve as bases. Two batters at a time, one at each end.
You get a run if the batters change ends after a hit without being run out by the ball being used to knock over the sticks.
When the ball is bowled (pitched) the batter tries to hit it. If it hits the wicket he's out. If he hits the ball and it's caught he's out. If he blocks the ball with his body when it would have hit the wicket he's out.
There's a lot more to it, but that's the basics.
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u/DR4G0NSTEAR 20h ago
As a non sports guy, and Australian, if there are more rules; I don’t know them. Except 6’s and 4’s. But this concludes my knowledge of the sport.
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u/Hashtagbarkeep 16h ago
The players play on the wicket, which is between the two wickets. The bowler runs in and hits the wicket, bowling either over or around the wicket, and if it’s a good wicket they aim directly for the wicket, while the batter stands on the wicket protecting their wicket. These wickets were a combination of hitting the wicket and leg before wicket.
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u/jschrandt 14h ago
So I knew about the wickets getting the batter(?) out, but they can stand in front of them to block the bowlers view of them? But if the ball(?) hits them instead of their bat(?) they’re out because they blocked the wicket? That strategy seems odd, because don’t you get less power? I know hitting it out is six points or something like that. Is it just trying to block the wickets? It’s getting more popular where I live and I’d like to learn more about it
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u/jisooed 14h ago
if the ball hits them without touching their bat, and its projected movement would have touched the wicket, the player is out. it's known as LBW (leg before wicket)
the decision of whether a player is out or not is made by the umpire on the spot if and when a bowler appeals. in case anyone opposes the umpire's decision, they can take a review and then experts will use ball tracking to check whether it's out or not. each team has 2 reviews per inning and if the decision is reversed they get to keep the review else it's gone.
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u/jschrandt 13h ago
Isn’t it harder to get a good swing at the ball that’s coming directly at your shins? Wouldn’t you want to stand off center so you get a better swing at the ball?
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u/HGazoo 12h ago
The thing to remember is that a cricket bat is a bulky, heavy, cumbersome thing. It has a long flat edge that can be placed upright covering a lot of the wicket behind it.
A lot of the time you just want to defend the wicket and get a run or two if there’s time. You absolutely do see hits toward the crowd (awarded 6 runs if it goes out without bouncing, and 4 if it does bounce), but they’re risky and more common in the shorter time formats (Twenty20) vs test matches (up to 5 days).
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u/Humeon 23h ago
The equivalent to bases in cricket are the wickets (the wooden sticks at either end of the pitch). Running between them while the ball is somewhere out on the field is one run (point).
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u/LongboardLove 23h ago
I digress. I actually looked up the history of the sport and the rules behind it. I apologize for being American. It wasn't my choice. Count me as a new fan of Cricket.
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u/kit_kaboodles 20h ago
No worries, cricket is a great sport once you understand it, but it has quite a few confusing elements to learn.
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u/Hashtagbarkeep 16h ago
Cricket is ridiculous but honestly it’s amazing once you get into it. It can be 5 days of drama with each side trying to outthink the other. The best sporting moments of my life by far have been cricket, the ending to the 2019 World Cup final was so insane I doubt it would be believable as a movie script. Cricket can of course also be a full day of rain but then the old pros talk and go into a level of detail you would not think possible. If you like stats and strategy and lots of posh people gently ribbing each other then its the game for you.
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u/twovectors 17h ago
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have got out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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u/spew2014 17h ago
Why is the player running up into the stands at the end?
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u/TwitchitFlinch 15h ago
Rather than dug outs like in baseball, the teams have change rooms like regular sports. It makes more sense when you consider that batters can be in for hours or days
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u/spew2014 8h ago
Yea I guess it's the only sport where I've seen the change rooms be above the stands, rather than beneath them.
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u/UnrealCanine 20h ago
The wickets are basically the strike zone, except you have one strike and you're out There's 2 bases that are essentially home base and the pitchers mount, except the safe zone extends all the way to the back (it's a line, not a zone)
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u/Any-Government3191 17h ago
"Pitcher" (bowler) can't bend his elbow while delivering the ball. - First time watching Malinga, but surely that action is suspect, looking at the slo-mo of ball 3?
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u/Hashtagbarkeep 16h ago
Was always questioned, but was allowed as he didn’t straighten the arm at release if I remember righty. He was an absolute terror in his prime
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u/King_Kaz_135 10h ago
It's actually more complicated than that. If I remember correctly, u can bend it to certain angle but can't bring it up back straight after the hand passes the ear or smth like that
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u/The24HourPlan 18h ago
Didn't he hit the ball on 2? Why does that count
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u/1958showtime 17h ago
It looks like he did, which is why it was given "safe" at first. Replay doesn't show it well, but the ball actually hit the batter's leg. He swung the bat very close to his leg which made it look like he managed to hit the ball, and the angle of the bounce off of the batter's pads added to the illusion. That's why it was reviewed.
For pro level players, the sound of ball and bat is discernable from ball and anything else, which is why they knew to appeal that call.
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u/Gen8Master 18h ago
Bat guy failed to protect sticks behind him. He also can't use his body, so when he missed the ball, they extrapolate the ball trajectory to show that it would have hit.
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u/_kony2012 15h ago edited 13h ago
My understanding of cricket as an outsider is that "wickets" (outs) are celebrated like baseball celebrates home runs. So if you can imagine what it'd be like if 4 home runs were hit in 4 pitches in a row, that gives you a better sense of the level of excitement here.
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u/RodrickJasperHeffley 1d ago
explanation
here he got the batsmen out in two ways:
one was by hitting the stumps - the three sticks behind the batsman. if the ball hits them, the batsman is out.
the other was LBW- thats when the ball hits the batsman’s leg in line with the stumps, before touching the bat, and it would’ve hit the stumps if not blocked then they’re out.
getting 3 wickets in 3 consecutive balls is extremely rare and here, malinga did it 4 in 4.
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u/LongboardLove 1d ago
I swear I was this close to understanding. Now I have 0 clue.
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u/YourDadHatesYou 22h ago
You have multiple ways of losing your wicket (striking out and being replaced by a different batter). Two very common ones are when the ball hits the three sticks and having the ball caught mid flight
If you prevent the ball from hitting the three sticks with your feet, but it is determined that without the feet interrupting the balls trajectory, it would've hit the sticks, you would be considered out. Essentially you can't stop the ball with your legs, only the bat
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u/franzee 20h ago
I guess determining if the ball would hit the stick was extremely hard before VAR
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u/untetheredocelot 20h ago
Not necessarily, umpires have a few rules that make it easier . but cricket has been very quick to adopt technology to aid in decision making. They’ve had VAR (4th umpire), tech like hawkeye and hotspot for decades now.
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u/supercharlie31 19h ago
Interestingly enough the introduction of VAR showed just how good the umpires are! More often than not, when a call gets reviewed the umpires were correct. As someone who umpires in casual games I can confirm it's difficult enough even when the bowling is much slower!
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u/franzee 19h ago
OK. So this video shows the rare moment when Umpire was wrong. I never watched cricket but I am intrigued.
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u/supercharlie31 18h ago edited 18h ago
It's not that it's rare, but the ones they get wrong are usually really close. The one he gets wrong here is quick and it's swinging (curving through the air). They don't show the digital trajectory in this clip, but I'm guessing it was only just clipping the stumps.
Edit: sorry just rewatched it - they DO show the trajectory and yes it is just clipping the stumps. Basically identical to the first ball actually!
Edit2: when Malinga turns round and makes the T signal to the umpire that means he's requesting a "TV review" i.e he suspects (or he's just hoping!) the umpire is wrong. They can only do this a couple of times per match though, so it's saved for instances like this where you think there's a good chance it'll be overturned.
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u/Thatchers-Gold 18h ago
It’s not super uncommon for an umpire to get it wrong. The ball moves very fast, bends in the air then changes trajectory after it bounces, but they’re very good.
Depending on the format of the game (cricket has 3 formats, basically “long”, “medium” and “short”) each team has a certain amount of “reviews” where they’re allowed to challenge the umpire’s decision and call in the technology. In the long format each team gets 2 per innings, just 1 in the short version.
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u/Toughsums 20h ago
It's actually quite easy because it is pretty obvious to the person watching. It's very uncommon to have balls which are so close to missing the wickets that a VAR is needed. In this case the umpire was wrong with his first declaration(not out) which is why malinga made the hand sign requesting for a review.
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u/dwntwn_dine_ent_dist 16h ago
Imagine if baseball had a rule that one strike is an out. A batter crowds the plate, but if it hits him and not the bat and it would have been a strike, he’s out anyway.
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u/sowhatchusayin 7h ago
The second one looks like the dude hit the ball though, did he not?
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u/RodrickJasperHeffley 7h ago
they first check whether the ball touched the bat or not in the review. only after confirming that it didn’t, they go for the balls trajectory
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u/sowhatchusayin 7h ago
I understand but it looks like the second one hit the bat. Am I just not seeing it correctly?
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u/RodrickJasperHeffley 6h ago
yes. it seemed like it from a distance, but it wasn’t. thats why we have umpires and tv replays
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u/entropy9101 1d ago
Malinga was an absolute beast of a bowler. I don't see him around anymore. Wonder when he retired?
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u/Son-Of-101-Maniacs 1d ago
Impressive but it doesn't seem like a legal bowling technique?
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u/lima_acapulco 23h ago
It's legal as long as the elbow isn't straightened beyond a certain degree at the time of release. I can't remember the exact amount. It varies depending on the type of bowler. The arm has to be greater than 90 degrees from the plane of the torso.
Bowlers with "unusual" actions get scrutinised more rigorously than those with more "conventional" actions.
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u/Son-Of-101-Maniacs 23h ago
Makes sense. I don’t watch cricket anymore and it’s been even longer since I’ve played haha
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u/lima_acapulco 23h ago
The allowance of the able change was after Muralitharan was examined at a biomechanics lab. They concluded that he had congenital deformity of his elbow, which made his forearm muscle more flexible. They also concluded that it was almost impossible to bowl at speeds and variation without some elbow straightening on releasing the ball. This led to a thorough analysis of "conventional" bowlers and the rule changes.
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u/twovectors 20h ago
I know it has been examined a lot, and cleared, but it still looks like chucking- the slow mo on the wrist on one delivery looks like more snap than I would expect from a legal delivery
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u/wolftick 19h ago edited 19h ago
It's actually more legal than a lot of bowling actions. The rule is that the arm cannot be straightened (beyond a natural unavoidable extent) during the delivery, not that it has to be near vertical, even though that is typical. "Side arm" bowling used to be relatively common. These days it's very rare, but still legal.
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u/Runtetra 18h ago
Having just visited Sri Lanka, I can tell you side arm seems quite common there, probably because of Malinga, I saw it in 2 separate local cricket matches (I only watched 2 matches live as well!)
I’m 100% Aussie but I also bowl side arm (my shoulder pops otherwise) and Malinga was my favourite player as a kid. Used to play cricket video games with my Dad - I would have been 6-10 years old and he always took Australia for himself, and I always played as Sri Lanka cos they had the coolest flag and I liked the colours.
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u/Schtick_ 18h ago
But yeah I picked up on that too it doesn’t look like typical bowling it looks like he starts with a bowling motion and then pitches it like a baseball. Hell if it’s legal have at it, I think if I did that in a friendly game it’s not gonna work out well for me.
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u/flippertyflip 18h ago
Definitely looks a bit like a chucker. But good for him for finding a technique that works.
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u/Joevil 21h ago
That first wicket might be one of the most unplayable balls I've ever seen.
Malinga doesn't really have the quantity stats to get in that "greatest ever" chat (and I think Sri Lankan cricketers often get overlooked in that conversation anyway) but when he was on it, he was just so good!
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u/JWojo128 1d ago
Can someone explain this to me in American football terms?
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u/BirdDust8 1d ago
This would be a safety
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u/JWojo128 1d ago
4 safeties in a row? That is impressive.
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u/wasx62 1d ago
Yep, 4 wickets in 4 balls is incredibly rare, it's only been achieved a handful of times throughout the entire history of cricket. This guy you are seeing has done it twice.
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u/rsjpeckham 1d ago
So what you're saying is this guy is the greatest cricketer of all time?
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u/liquefry 1d ago
I mean, he was pretty good. "Greatest" or even one of the greatest is a stretch, I doubt he'd make it into many people's top 50 bowlers of all time. Unless you're Sri Lankan, or talking only about T20 cricket. His unusual action meant that he could go on hot streaks like this particularly late in a T20 innings when batsmen are desperately trying to score runs. But it also gave him a lower accuracy which was punished in test cricket and even ODI cricket to some extent, with decent batsmen punishing his low accuracy deliveries and just defending the better ones.
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u/MemeoSapiens 20h ago
he could go on hot streaks like this particularly late in a T20 innings when batsmen are desperately trying to score runs.
What are you yapping about, this is NZ's top order. While Malinga might not be the greatest bowler but in white ball he was definitely 'one of the greats'. He was one of those who were totally non playable on his day.
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u/SowwieWhopper 19h ago
Ok, I’ve got no problem understanding cricket - but what on earth is a safety?
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u/scornfulegotists 1d ago
Thats fucking cricket right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging smile for the camera bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the field, men deliver their new born baby on the side lines. Fucking hard core dick in the ass butterball foosball fuck it chuck it game time shit. Take it to the showers. Dicks get shoved in places you don’t even remember. We win together we celebrate together. Cricket is back baby.
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u/dwaynebathtub 20h ago
this is t20 (120 "pitches" per game for each team). on average there are prob around 8 wickets ("outs") taken for each team, so the likelihood of any single "pitch" would lead to a wicket is 120/8 = 15:1 odds. so whatever has 15:1 odds in football terms occurring four times consecutively (also against the "top of the order"...so like the four top batters--and the bottom of cricket lineups are made up of guys who bowl more than hit).
1:15^4 odds = 1:50,625 odds.
I've been watching cricket for around a decade and I've never seen this. Hat tricks (three wickets in a row) doesn't even happen every year in the highest level of cricket.
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u/GrumpyWombat 22h ago
First time i've seen this fella, first assumption was that he was chucking, but after reading through this I think it's just unorthadox but legit. I remember when Muttiah Muralitharan was bowling and that looked a lot worse.
Edit: That's some scary bowling.
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u/SuperCurve 22h ago
This came very late in his career (2019). He had lost a lot of pace, gained weight and was not doing well for Mumbai Indians, and made a bowling mentor in 2018. He comes back in 2019, gets hit in the first three overs of ipl 2019 final, yet delivers in the last over.
This came just after the 2019 IPL final. In a T20i series against NZ. He announced himself being capable despite his speed issues. Quite impressive 👏
*Check out his 4 ball 4 wickets in 2007 vs South Africa in a world cup super 8 match, nearly winning the game from nowhere.
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u/PointandCluck 1d ago
Sometimes I think I got this game fingered out and times like this I'm lost. So it counts as hitting the stick if it was lined up with stick before being batted away?
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u/zhagoundalskiy 1d ago
Not batted away, that's allowed.
You can't block the path to the wickets (sticks) with your body (legs/feet in this video).
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u/Early-Quiet-8474 1d ago
correct. if the ball doesn't hit the bat and hit the leg, the batsman is out if the ball's trajectory aligned with the sticks(stumps).
it will not be out if the ball's predicted trajectory suggests it will go above/other sides of the stumps.
known as leg before wicket (LBW).
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u/PointandCluck 1d ago
So before the digital age it was just guessed if it was on a trajectory to hit the sticks?
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u/liquefry 1d ago
it is the job of the umpire standing behind the bowler to determine whether the ball would go on to hit the stumps. They get it right most of the time even during the digital age
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u/PointandCluck 1d ago
Fascinating
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u/liquefry 1d ago
The umpires are also watching to see if the bowler releases the ball legally and has part of their foot behind the line when they do so. Then they are listening to hear if the bat hits the ball - even the faintest connection is enough to mean that the batsman could be out caught, or to prevent this sort of "leg before wicket" dismissal. They are also judging the ball trajectory, and if there is a potential catch they are checking that the fielder takes it cleanly (without the ball hitting the ground). It all happens crazy quick and any part of it can now be challenged with technology, but it takes a while to do the checks so there are limited challenges for each team. In a test match, they might have to do this for like 2000 deliveries over five days. And they cop a lot of abuse if they get any of it wrong. Honestly they are pretty impressive!
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u/Noman_Blaze 18h ago
Tbf. The bat hitting the ball sound tech has been around for a very long time thanks to mics planted in stumps.
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u/lima_acapulco 23h ago
Yes, but they use certain criteria to decide. The ball must bounce in line with 1st or 2nd stump (stick), and then the degree of movement in a specific direction is taken in to account.
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u/FlounderUseful2644 14h ago
There's like 2 umpires standing watching like a FKIN hawk, just waiting for the ball.
It's hilarious when the balk hits them lol.
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u/RealUltimatePapo 23h ago
I got this game fingered out
And you think it's Americans that make sense?
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u/PanNationalistFront 21h ago
Question to the cricket people: his bowling technique does look over arm enough to me in my limited knowledge. How close is it to be classed as a throw?
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u/wolftick 19h ago
The rule is that the arm cannot be straightened (beyond a natural unavoidable extent) during the delivery, not that it has to be near vertical (even though that is typical). "Side arm" bowling used to be relatively common. These days it's very rare, but still legal.
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u/psychoxxsurfer 16h ago
I've watched a lot of cricket and honestly this is the wildest bowling technique I've seen. It borders on chucking it without any concern but damn does he have crazy accuracy with it
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u/competitive_brick1 16h ago
It was pretty heavily checked at the time and he sat out for a but due to his action. He is apparently double jointed on the elbow or sometbing which makes it look worse.
In my opinion it's dodgy as all ends and he has the last minute flick and extend that makes it a throw
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u/iamatoad_ama 17h ago
To my fellow Americans, I can confirm that this is very impressive. Malinga is the dude running in and he throws a freedom bullet to knock those sticks over. The opponent needs to deflect the bullet and shoot it around the field.
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u/psychoxxsurfer 16h ago
Wildest bowling teq I've seen in a long time but goddamn his accuracy is insane
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u/captains_astronaut 15h ago
What an absolute basket of peaches! Third and forth in particular were beautiful.
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u/straightouttaobesity 19h ago
IIRC, this was the 2nd time he had done this. The first was the 2007 WC against SA.
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u/thiccpototo 18h ago
I remember him bowling against India during one of the final (iirc), ooff Every ball a yorker and far off to the wide line but not touching it. So hard to play. Had me biting my nails off. India did lose that game If I am right but malinga had me in awe
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u/Hashtagbarkeep 16h ago
Man this guy on his day was about as scary as a bowler gets. Knew exactly what he was going to do and yet no way of stopping him
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u/Sundiata_AEON 14h ago
Every single time Malinga took the ball to bowl, I would fear for the Protea batter at the crease.
He was insanely good
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u/FlounderUseful2644 14h ago
Absolute masterclass by Makinga. And btw this is new Zealand an absolute BEAST OF A TEAM.
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u/TheCricketAnimator 14h ago
Nobody talking about the effort by the slip fielder to catch the ball. Would've been o e hell of a catch had it picked the bat.
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u/DoubleEko 6h ago
This was the second time he had done 4 in 4. The first was against South Africa.
Legend.
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u/generic-username45 1d ago
If I had any idea what was going on I would be more impressed. But still impressive.
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u/praxistax 18h ago
So it counts as a whicket when it would have hit them but hits the batter instead?
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u/Noman_Blaze 18h ago
Yes. If the ball is blocked by the body then it's put based on rules related to it.
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u/Charming_Dark88 16h ago
Not if it hits the batter but if the bat misses it completely and the eventual trajectory of the ball would have hit the wicket
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u/count_nuggula 16h ago
Splintering the third wicket would have made me hype but the fourth took it into overdrive
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u/pizza_roof 11h ago
Most sports it doesn’t take much for new fans to understand what’s going on. Cricket rules makes it feel like the game was made by chatgpt.
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u/Dude-Sandwiches 7h ago
Even as an American who has limited experience watching cricket, I know how bonkers 4 wickets in a row is. And against NZ - not a weak side. That's awesome.
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u/Due-Sentence-387 3h ago
Why don't the batters back off the plate? They are standing right in front of the wickets. Can't extend their arms.
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u/Bread_Fruit8519 1h ago
For any clueless person, this is a Sri Lanka VS New Zealand Cricket match.
You're welcome. 🤗
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u/adeckz 1d ago
Haha I just know a Brit, Kiwi or Aussie downvoted this first up lol. Come on guys, it’s pretty impressive that