A master at Wellington College Prep School, Eagle House, Richard Parsons was umpiring in a match where the schoolboys under his charge were bowled out for a mere ONE RUN by a rival school.
Embarrased rather than irritated, he said to his opposite number between innings, “I’m sorry not to have given your boys much practice. I assure you my chaps are capable of doing better than this.”
They did. They bowled the entire opposition out for NOUGHT
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In a match played in London over two saturday afternoons, the side batting first had lost six wickets by end of play on the first saturday.
One of the not out batsmen got into the train for Kennington instead of Kensington and missed the start and was ruled out by the umpire. So one wicket had fallen and a ball was yet to be bowled !
The first ball bowled was a no ball hit towards mid on and as the batsman ran for a single, the fielder threw down the stumps to run out the striker. Thus two wickets had fallen and a legal delivery had yet to be bowled in the over !
The next ball was driven hard and hit the non striker on the head and rebounded to a fielder who caught it. The batsman was out aand the non striker had to retire with a fractured skull !!!
The last man came in but couldnt bat because there was no non striker to bat with him . Hence all four wickets had fallen for one legal delivery !!!
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In 1838 a match was played on ice at Harewood, Yorkshire, against Stank. The home side scored 486 and the latter replied with 212 for 4.
The high scoreing suggests problems of mobility as does one batsman's (Barrett) scoring 13 runs with one hit !
Why it ended in a draw ? Perhaps the ice melted
Lesson: On ice always bat first
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A match at the South Pole in 1969, had the former Kiwi captain, John Reid hitting a six into the snow and the ball(the only one available) vanishing
The wicket was the Pole itself which at that time was represented by a striped barber's type pole with a silvered reflecting glass ball on top.
The unique feature of the match was that whichever direction the ball was hit, it travelled northwards
Harbhajans chopper-wacks become predictable !!
Another one
George Gunn the Notts and England batsman scored ***(guess how many) in a single wicket match in 1919
A local amateur challenged him for a stake of 100 pounds. Gunn refused. When the amateur persisted Gunn finally agreed but insisted on the stakes being brought down to a manageable 5 pounds !
The match began on the Trent Bridge practice ground and in 2 and 1/2 hours Gunn had scored exactly 300 not out.
By the end of the second session he was 620 not out and his opponent invited him to declare.
Gunn refused but allowed him a concession. The stumps were replaced with a six feet wide heavy roller. It made no difference. Halfway through the evening session, Gunn was 777 not out.