Worst Covers??

[Firestorm]

I'm surprised you haven't read the thread properly ;)

OOPS

I had to read through it twice again ! Apologies to SwanseaShrimper....

I blame my age ........

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

OOPS

I had to read through it twice again ! Apologies to SwanseaShrimper....

I blame my age ........

Apologies accepted, it was a bad enough version to deserve mentioning twice anyway

 

[maldon_blue]

Mike Flowers singing Wonderwall or Wacko Jacko doing Come Together...

 

[Groyne Strain]

Do you remember the 1983 B&H cup final, Ray East played but did not bowl and got run out for 0, often wondered about that team selection that day lets face it Ray was not in the team as a specialist fielder was he!!!

The original clown prince of cricket. He entertained whether he was playing cricket or not.

I remember one game against Hampshire when the late great Malcolm Marshall was reaching his peak and had us in terrible trouble. Ray wandered out and had a chat with Marshall, presumably to say he wasn't hanging around so if he pitched it up okay he'd just let it hit the stumps.

Anyway, next ball comes up, a bit slower, pitched up, and Ray just cracks it for 4, much to the amusement of the few spectators and Hampshire fielders alike.

I've never seen a cricketer so angry, I thought steam would be coming out of ears or his head would explode. The next ball he charged in with pent up fury, with the most venomous ball he might ever have bowled, only to find Ray already running past sqaure leg. The wicket, of course, splayed in all directions.

I recall the 83 Final only too well. I'm not sure why we was picked, too, as our other bowlers done their job. Our batsmen just choked. Just 3 days before in the NatWest Trophy, we were 210-1 against Kent, needing 64 off about 25 overs, and lost by 4 runs. I'm sure that played on their minds that day. The last 5 wickets fell for about 15 runs.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I recall the 83 Final only too well. I'm not sure why we was picked, too, as our other bowlers done their job. Our batsmen just choked. Just 3 days before in the NatWest Trophy, we were 210-1 against Kent, needing 64 off about 25 overs, and lost by 4 runs. I'm sure that played on their minds that day. The last 5 wickets fell for about 15 runs.

Lets not forget the 83 final went on until 9pm it was probably one of the most difficult batting conditions I have ever seen.

Anyway lets get this thread back on topic. The worst covers were probably the ones at Southchurch park they always let loads of rain through them and do you remember the 'Brumbrella' by the time they had managed to cover the whole outfield it would quite often have stopped raining.

 

[Groyne Strain]

It was that pitch that cost us the county championship in 1990. We beat Yorkshire in about a day and a half by 2 or so wickets and were deducted 25 points for a sub-standard pitch.

The reaonable argument in our defence, that it was a council owned pitch which they had little control of, and that we'd obviously not gone out to get any unfair advantage as we struggled on it just as much as Yorkshire, fell on deaf ears at the TCCB.

Botham, of course, was at Worcestershire, and even though he was nearing the end of his career, he was still a big money draw that the TCCB desperately needed. Well, blow me down, deduct 25 points from Essex and who became champions? Cheating scumbags to a man.

Just like when we went to Old Trafford, the only team that could catch Lancashire in the John Player League. We pulverise them to the edge of defeat, a light shower comes down, the teams scurry off, and then half an hour later in the sunshine the umpires somehow reach a decision to abandon the game. I don't forgive or forget. The cheating bas.tards.

Anyway, yes, covers .... what about those ones at Edgbaston which went over the entire pitch with a mechanical roller that took about 9 hours?

 

[JoshC]

how did we got from worst covers to cricket?

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

how did we got from worst covers to cricket?

Evolution ??

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

There She Goes- that dopey religious band who's name escapes me (they obviously didn't realise they were singing a song about heroin 'pulsing through my veins')

Yes, the butchering of that number by Sixpence None The Richer was the first one that came into my head as well.

The next one that always comes to mind, that conjures up feelings of "less enjoyable than root canal surgery" is Boyzone feat. Mariah Carey covering Phil "Slaphead" Collins's Against All Odds. It's the sort of song that wants to make you hurl a pint glass at the telly just to make the pain go away.

:guns:

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Just like when we went to Old Trafford, the only team that could catch Lancashire in the John Player League. We pulverise them to the edge of defeat, a light shower comes down, the teams scurry off, and then half an hour later in the sunshine the umpires somehow reach a decision to abandon the game. I don't forgive or forget. The cheating bas.tards.

Anyway, yes, covers .... what about those ones at Edgbaston which went over the entire pitch with a mechanical roller that took about 9 hours?

I too was at the the Old Trafford game, the Lancs groundstaff were so slow they did not get all the covers on by the time it had stopped raining.

Yep the Edgbaston cover was the one I mentioned earlier it was nicknamed the 'Brumbrella'.