Andrew Flintoff unveils his big surprise
“Voila!”
Brilliant, Fred. It’s a cricket ball. We’ve all seen a cricket ball before.
What’s next in your box of tricks? A bat? A box?
“Voila!”
Brilliant, Fred. It’s a cricket ball. We’ve all seen a cricket ball before.
What’s next in your box of tricks? A bat? A box?
“What did you say, you little bastard?”
KP suffered a dislocated little finger and severe bruising to his fist shortly after this picture was taken.
Bad dog. No Test career for you.
Only his angelic side and his demonic side are BOTH cyclopic yellow bears.
“Go and buy some honey, Liam.”
“Don’t listen to him! Go and steal some honey.”
‘Spot the statistics nerd’ isn’t a game you should play in a cricket ground when it’s anything other than completely empty. It’s no challenge at all.
A game of ’spot the fancy dress drunk’ was abandoned later that same day.
So-called mental disintegration can take many forms. You might play on a batsman’s confidence or you might try and aggravate him into losing his cool.
In this picture, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell and Ryan Sidebottom have teamed up in an effort to make Ross Taylor jealous.
Ross Taylor considers himself something of a looker, but here Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell are visibly expressing a strong preference for Ryan Sidebottom.
Kevin’s cruel, taunting eyes must cut deeper than any mere sledge.
Bang it in short.
Ian! Look down! It’s right there in front of you!
Here we see Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell and Matt Prior desperately searching for the ball while Mahela Jayawardene and Tillekeratne Dilshan complete an all-run hundred for Jayawardene.
England weren’t to find the ball again for three straight days and all the while Jayawardene and Dilshan were running and running.
As the bowler who’d delivered the ball, Matthew Hoggard’s bowling figures were particularly poor in this Test.
Pictures like this DESERVE captions:
This is what we’ve come up with:
(1) Ricky Ponting with a bat in his mouth.
(2) Ricky Ponting eats a cricket bat.
(3) Ricky Ponting and a cricket bat and the bat’s sort of in his mouth so it sort of looks like he might be eating it or something, but he’s not. He’s not eating it at all because it’s a cricket bat and people don’t eat cricket bats. It just kind of looks like he is. He’s just sort of leaning on it being pensive or something.
Everyone knows about Dennis Lillee’s aluminium bat, but Sachin Tendulkar’s experiment with a helium-filled bat is less well known.
Sachin thought the lightness of the bat would allow him to bat freer and longer, but unfortunately, as this picture shows, the excess of helium rendered the bat unusable.
During the course of his career, Philip Tufnell experimented with 32 different types of unconventional bat. He never once made contact with the ball though.