Steve Harmison has company. Long has the former England spearhead's wild, opening ball of the 2006/07 Ashes been ridiculed as one of the worst, or at least widest, of all time. It set the scene for the ultimate humiliation - Australia's 5-0 whitewash of the old enemy that summer.
Harmison, then, could at least empathise with the South African quick Morne Morkel, whose own howler of a wide at Edgbaston overnight is suddenly a hot contender for the wildest delivery in international cricket history.
Advertisement In a rain-affected Twenty20 international against England Morkel steamed in and produced a full toss with his first ball. His third was also full, but wide, very wide. Unlike Harmison's ball at the Gabba almost six years ago, which infamously evaded Justin Langer by so far that it landed in the hands of Andrew Flintoff at second slip, Morkel's sped straight to the fine-leg boundary for four.
Bowling to England's Craig Kieswetter, the 27-year-old flashed down the leg side by so far that the wayward ball missed the pitch by close to a metre.
To compound his misery, South Africa were beaten by 28 runs in the third and final match of the T20 series, which ended level at 1-1.
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:38 am
by MajGenl.Meade
I watched that game live (at friends Leon and Tokkie who have DSTV and a wall-size screen). Morkel's delivery was so wide that it broke one of the windows in the right side wall. What a full tosser! 17 runs on the first over as I recall - awful. I enjoyed it. Leon and Tokkie did not.
Meade
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:41 am
by Guinevere
Shouldn't this be in the "Snoozes" board? Or maybe one called "Naptime?"
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:48 am
by The Hen
Ouch.
He must be hurting with humiliation.
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:09 am
by Gob
Guinevere wrote:
Never let a softball, or a chance to educate a Welshman/Ozzie about the USA, fly on by....
If only we had that luxury with the Americans here, but cricket is far too subtle and intelligent a subject for that...
It's a cracker of a shit ball though, I think it's worse than Harmy's ball, as there's not even anyone in the slips to gather it!
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:43 pm
by Crackpot
Hey Most Americans will admit watching Baseball is boring as watching flys fuck How do you expect us to react to something longer and even more convoluted?
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:21 pm
by Lord Jim
The worst cricket pitch of all time was the first one....
It got the whole somnolent thing started....
Of course without cricket, there might never have been baseball, so I guess it's served one useful purpose....
Re: Worst wide ever Meade?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:18 am
by dales
Crackpot wrote:Hey Most Americans will admit watching Baseball is boring as watching flys fuck How do you expect us to react to something longer and even more convoluted?
