Your irritating moments during a cricket match

[IAJ]

I am usually very patient when it comes to sports and all other matters in life, but when watching a cricket match involving the team I support there are a couple of things which really irritates me, especially when I watch Pakistan;

1) Egdes that fly to boundary towards third-man region. It's very seldom I see the thirdman from Pakistan stop a boundary there. Ant those runs really irritate me.

2) Spinners bowling and not watching feet movement of the bowlers. Previously we had spinners who would throw a wide one once the batsmen are down the track and then being stumped. But with our current spinners (both Shadab and Nawaz) I hardly see this. We have a spinner as heach coach, surely he can make them be more aware of this no?

Feel free to add your irritating-moments.

 

[cerebralrattlesnake]

ptv and it's excessive ads

most of the times they come back after break when the shot is already played in the new over!

 

[IAJ]

ptv and it's excessive ads

most of the times they come back after break when the shot is already played in the new over!

LOL yeah)

Remember those days, but thankfully there are many more options now so don't need to watch PTV. But I noticed they have better quality now finally.

 

[TeamPak95]

ptv and it's excessive ads

most of the times they come back after break when the shot is already played in the new over!

I swear if I see that break dancing dude drinking whatever bootleg energy drink to power the city while getting attention to the girl one more time, Imma lose it.

 

[Markhor]

Wides given for balls going a mere fraction down legside. Batsmen can move around the crease so much yet bowlers have no margin for error.

Long delays during DRS. Do we really need to check ultraedge when bat is nowhere near pad ? Go straight to ball tracking.

Going off for bad light. When you have floodlights, just switch to a pink ball.

 

[IAJ]

Wides given for balls going a mere fraction down legside. Batsmen can move around the crease so much yet bowlers have no margin for error.

Long delays during DRS. Do we really need to check ultraedge when bat is nowhere near pad ? Go straight to ball tracking.

Going off for bad light. When you have floodlights, just switch to a pink ball.

The umpiring today was very good, and there was a delivery which Mohammad Wasim bowled, and most umpires would have given wide, but the umpire today saw the movement of the batter and kept his arms close.

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

Interviews on the sidelines while the game is still in play. Have those interviews lined up during the innings break. Not a rocket science.

 

[Gayle_Force]

Whenever a Pakistani player misfields or drops catches.

A non-cricketing one is the cringey dad jokes by some of the commentators, mostly the subcontinent ones. For eg, Wasim and Waqar asking David Gower to bring in his laundry every single time they showed the giant washing machine in Pak Eng series.

 

[asifh96]

When Waqar/Wasim literally repeat every point made by a different commentator because they can’t think for themselves.

 

[Hitman]

Nothing is more annoying than a dropped catch. Next would be a no-ball or a wide.

 

[MenInG]

People asking you to come out for a coffee KNOWING FULLY WELL that India and Pakistan match is happening at that time!

 

[Hitman]

People asking you to come out for a coffee KNOWING FULLY WELL that India and Pakistan match is happening at that time!

Maybe they secretly know you love a cup of coffee more than an India vs Pakistan match

 

[MenInG]

Maybe they secretly know you love a cup of coffee more than an India vs Pakistan match

Haha!

It's truly irritating when people say that to me during the match - as in they are living in a parallel universe.

 

[asadee]

Interviews on the sidelines while the game is still in play. Have those interviews lined up during the innings break. Not a rocket science.

Bingo. Absolutely hate them

 

[Hitman]

Haha!

It's truly irritating when people say that to me during the match - as in they are living in a parallel universe.

Maybe they do it intentionally to poke the bear? Just a thought. During the time of Sachin, Dada, Dravid, etc, I wouldn't miss an India vs Pakistan match even if a big time female celebrity asked me for a date

 

[ChTab]

Definitely national anthems. What's the point? I can understand if it's a WC final but now a days they do that in almost every game.

 

[Gayle_Force]

Another thing I find irritating is when umpires call shows up on DRS. Just show it as out of not out, don’t need that what if scenario.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

1 - Plumb LBW or Huge Edge to the keeper and Imran Farhat making the review signal before the umpire has even completed raising the finger.

2 - Day 5 of the final test match where the series is drawn 2-2 and Test Cricket world championship title is on the line.
90th and final over of the day to start. Batting team requires 2 to win and 1 to tie.

Tendulkar facing, Viv Richards, Rahul Dravid, Jack Kallis, Rick Ponting, and Sangakkara to come.
First ball - Tendulkar, Clean bowled!
Second ball - Viv Richards Clean bowled!!
Third ball - Rahul Dravid, clean bowled !!!
Fourth ball - Jack Kallis, clean bowled !!!!
Fifth ball - Ricky Ponting, clean bowled !!!!!
Six ball - Sangakkara, Clean bowled !!!!!!

This is how Imran Tahir celebrates after he takes the wicket of some last man of Kenya team.
Absolute cringer!!

 

[Suleiman]

Pakistan dropping a sitter

Cringe celebrations

Cringey sledging

Seeing more than 1 Pak batsman get out to a short ball

Captain of the team showing his panic in his body language and excessive yelling. Sarfraz is prime candidate of it, Babar showed it a bit too when Hasnain got tonked for 20 runs in the over. You’re supposed to go to him and console, leave yelling for later.

A good example of what to do is shown in Shoaib Akhtar’s first few tours to Australia and he kept bowling the ball wide or something again and again, and Wasim put his arm around him and adviced him.

On field ads. That Tepal nonsense during the Pak v Eng series was mad annoying and blatant. If you’re gonna use the crowd to advertise, at least do it creatively, like Sensodyne did. They gave random audience members an ice lolly or soft drink with the slogan on screen “life is too short for soft teeth”- that’s at least remotely entertaining. Or the Dawlance stationary bike with the washing machine.

 

[Suleiman]

Interviews on the sidelines while the game is still in play. Have those interviews lined up during the innings break. Not a rocket science.

Yeah this too. Also the thing NZ and Australia media do where they hand a random player an ear piece and then interview them mid game. I’m p sure it definitely hurts their concentration on the game. Phillips last game in NZ Vs Pak did some major blunders in the field that imo may have been due to lapse in concentration.

 

[todfod 11]

Having games on Sunday evening then Saturdays.. annoys the F out of me.. this subcontinent mentality of having games on Sunday.
If you play games on Saturday you l have more viewership. I m in NZ so Sunday evening games starts 2.30 am on Monday mornings.

 

[Kriketer]

Matches in subcontinent. Nothing ticks me more than seeing those roads and dustbowls of subcontinent. And Pakistan is sure master of terrible pitches.

Next will be free links of PTV, terrible broadcaster with silly ads.

Third will be seeing Tuc biscuits or Ding Dong billi bubblegum etc sponsoring Pak tournament, like h*ck there are good technological/industrial/financial entities in Pakistan too so get it through them.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Interviews on the sidelines while the game is still in play. Have those interviews lined up during the innings break. Not a rocket science.

Oh yes. That’s HORRIBLE!
Not sure who came up with this idea and who approved it?
Both should be sent to jail.

Couple of others
When non-English speaking third umpire has to review and speak English.

Oh my goodness - the cringeworthy accent when they try to act angraiz.

Sri Lankans pronouncing the word “decision” as Deshicion and “wicket” as wiKKATT.
And Indian Pak third umpires? Don’t even make me start.


And then, as mentioned above
Pakistan has the most dumb, shallow, boring and cringeworthy tv advertisements.
There is absolutely NOTHING witty, funny, creative or an interesting glimpse in our ads.

Frigging LOUD, blunt, abrupt, stupid and boring themes trying to sell Bubble gum, detergent powder, mobile phone packages, dandruff shampoo, chooran to relieve gas, and whatnot from a pansari ki dukaan.

India on the hand has produced some remarkable ads - lots of good examples on YouTube.

 

[zacattakk]

The cringey over the top rehearsed celebrations that our players had started doing. After getting smashed around the park then finally dismissing a tailender and celebrating as if you had knocked over Brian Lara for a duck (eg Hasan Ali). Seriously embarrassing.

I had the misfortune of watching a game on PTV sports the other day after a while and like always missed almost every first ball of the over due to their ads. Its been decades and they still havent figured out how to get this right.

Also seeing the same ad over and over again on every commercial break.

The recent "innovation" in the past few years (which I mainly see in games in Australia/NZ) of putting a microphone on a player on the pitch and talking to him in the middle of a game between balls. Its just a gimmick, they provide no useful insight, I really just find it annoying.

Poor quality commentators. The new generation Australian commentators suck. A far cry from the likes of Benaud and others including Tony Greig (yes i know hes of english origin)

Biased commentators - most recent eg is there is one NZ commentator who is incredibly biased. I dont know his name but he commentated throughout our last tour there and is also at it again during this current triseries.

The terrible dandruff dance in the crowd during PSL. Extreme cringe. I have too much self respect to do that.

The forced inclusion of female commentators to make up a female quotient for the woke generation. If they are good I have no problem but honestly most are terrible and we all know who they are.

 

[Markhor]

Those in-game ads in Pakistan matches for washing machines, Sensodyne and Tapal Tea are utterly cringeworthy.

I understand doing them in T20s but during a Test ?

 

[Babeikh]

Cringeworthy ads
Product endorsements which even the commentators seem to have to do
'Trademark' celebrations, especially Hasan Ali's one.

There are other things that happen which annoy me too e.g. when batsman call for change of gloves, take ages to be ready to face the ball.

Ramp shots annoy me too largely because they generally happen against us and we are not as successful playing them.

 

[TeamPak95]

It's a tie between (when it happens against Pakistan):

- When slip is taken out and then the ball edges to that vacant area for four
- When catch is dropped (or an easy run out chance missed) and then the next ball goes for four or six

 

[mon858]

for pakistan hosted: washing machine, sensodyne, and all similar ones, completely overdone/artificial, annoying.

for foreign hosted/ game wise: not converting ones to twos, twos to threes, especially on big grounds. fielders not going for catches, not calling. rain.

 

[WengerOut]

Indian umpires simply mimicking foreign slang words like ROCK N ROLL during DRS.


Shikhar Dhawan thigh slap after a catch.

Virat Kohli pseudo aggression when opposition batsmen get out.


VVS Laxman fake smile, acting like he is calm and cool as a coach when things dont go Indias way.


Dahani Histrionics.


Rizwan "friendship" with opponents.


Avesh Khan grunting and bowling 130 kph thunderbolts.

 

[IMMY69]

Coming to PP to follow the match thread only to see some posters incessantly criticising a particular player.. even if the player is doing well or has yet to bat...

 

[Smbhayi]

I thought Rizwan will tops this list considering lot of complained here in other threads about his dramebaaz.. surprised to see no one metions it yet..