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Ricky Ponting with a bat in his mouth

Pictures like this DESERVE captions:

Ricky Ponting and a bat and the bat's in his mouth

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.

Ricky Ponting uses a Kookaburra Big Kahuna.

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Sachin Tendulkar’s helium-filled bat

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.

Fun but useless - like this site when it pulls out all the stops

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.

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No Holds Barred Cricket

No Holds Barred Cricket is a form rarely played these days. It was introduced in the mid-Nineties as a means of injecting a little bit more excitement into the one-day game. Rather frighteningly and contradictorily, the rules are ‘there are no rules’.

No Holds Barred Cricket featured large amounts of injuries from the outset, so players are rarely asked to partake these days. Nevertheless, occasional exhibition matches are still played.

In this shot, we see Mahendra Singh Dhoni struggling to catch Shoaib Malik. Shoaib Malik’s batting partner, Shahid Afridi, just out of shot, has hold of Dhoni’s leg and is attempting to sabotage the catch.

Rules bring order - rules are good

Afridi succeeded in spoiling Dhoni’s catch but was run out as he was well out of his ground. Then Sachin Tendulkar gave him a wedgie.

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Andrew Strauss and Paul Nixon execute worst ever high-five

Worst high-five ever

Strauss has at least got the basics right, but he has neglected to correctly align himself with the recipient of the five.

Nixon, for his part, has fived himself in a last ditch attempt to salvage the five. His anguished expression betrays his true emotions however.

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Paul Collingwood and Graeme Swann engage in some combat mime sparring

Combat mime is a form of theatrical art whereby two combatants battle one another by expressing certain physical actions without sound.

Here Paul Collingwood and Graeme Swann are locked in a stirring head-to-head, where both combatants are doing ‘the window’.

Shortly after this picture was taken, Paul Collingwood opened his imaginary window straight into Graeme Swann’s jaw, forcing Swann to escape up an imaginary ladder.

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Matthew Hayden attaches a mirror to the back of his bat

It’s to more closely monitor the ageing process.

Matthew Hayden and his bat

‘Still a few wisps of hair at the front there. Not time to retire yet’.

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Captain fails to learn second fielding position

slip cordon

“And you: You go and field at, er, slip.”

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Graeme Swann fails to conquer his bail addiction

For years Graeme Swann has secretly suffered from a rare and debilitating disease. Graeme is addicted to bails.

Graeme’s been through a number of treatments - enforced withdrawal, hypnosis, various types of medication - but in the end he just has to accept it. He’s a bail addict and he’ll never be fully cured.

During the second one-day international between Sri Lanka and England at Dambulla, Graeme fell spectacularly from the bail wagon.

Standing at third-man, he was suddenly overcome by bail lust. He charged in and snatched the bails before the astonished eyes of his team mates.

His latest treatment is to always carry two small pieces of dowel as a substitute for his beloved bails.

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Andrew Strauss given out ‘hunchback at slip’

Pakistan here successfully appeal for the little-known mode of dismissal ‘hunchback at slip’.

As he delivers the ball, Mohammad Sami notices that his team mates have smuggled Quasimodo into the first slip position and asks the question of the umpire.

This means of dismissal was removed from the laws later in the year after Zimbabwe hit upon the ingenious idea of actually selecting a hunchback as part of their first team.

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