Smashing shot!!

[Gob]

Audio link on page, with some lovely Welsh accents!!

Cricket's unluckiest commentator has copped another one in the box with a massive six sending him diving for cover as it smashed into his commentary position.

Edward Bevan was calling a match for BBC Radio Wales at Taunton, south-west England, when Somerset batsman Peter Trego went the tonk against Glamorgan.

"Trego comes down and hits it up towards us, and ... is it going to hit us?" Bevan says, moments before glass can be heard shattering and laughter erupts in the background.


Remarkably, it was the third such incident in the veteran commentator's career, but this one left him a little more shaken than the others.

He suffered a blow to the lower back, and was forced to retire hurt for the game.

Afterwards, Bevan said he thought the box was made of perspex and labelled it the "worst commentary box in the country".

"It's the third time it's happened now - twice in the little box we used to have in Cardiff, not the palatial building we have now, and yesterday of course, which is probably the worst commentary box in the country," he told the BBC.

"There's a bruise there this morning - in fact I couldn't carry on.

"Dear old Steve James [Bevan's fellow commentator] carried on for about a quarter of an hour."

Bevan also paid tribute to the batsman, who apparently punched the air in celebration when he realised he had hit the box.

Trego went on to score a century in a "magnificent" innings

[loCAtek]

When an American, foul ball flys into the stands in the states, things can get bit more physical than just dodging the ball.

We tend to dive and scramble for it, like starving, mad, slavering dogs over a scrap of bone. Why? because.... um, because... I dunno exactly, but I think it's because in American football, a foul ball can be recovered for points. While in American baseball, that doesn't apply, we try to recover the ball for bragging rights, I suppose. I caught it! It's mine! Suck on it, suckahs!


So saying, an acquaintance of mine, nearly sustained a permanent injury catching a foul ball;

It flew towards him and about a bazillion other fans , who dog-piled atop he and it. <insert image of human dog-pile, here>

He should have had the claim on it; being on the bottom and having his hand over it, []WHEN[/i]...

Suddenly, an unknown figure, took advantage of his pinned position, and pulled his fingers backwards up off the ball! ...to steal the sphere from his very grasp, and nearly break his phalange joints in the process. *ouchie*

Full contact fandom, ain't for the faint-hearted!

[oldr_n_wsr]

I took the family to a ball game one time when the kids were 5 and 9. We had box seats and I let the kids sit in front of hte wife and me. The daughter was tired and came to sit on my lap and the next thing you know a foul ball comes screaming from the field and hits the back of the seat she was just sitting in. Lucky day

[The Hen]

I was watching a past boyfriend play football when I caught a soccer ball right on my nose.

To say it hurt would be an understatment.

[Long Run]

. . . when I caught a soccer ball right on my nose.

That is far more talented than those ordinary joes who are able to catch a soccer ball on their foot!

[The Hen]