da bet7： Farcical bowling, the helmet fielder, chess interruptions, batting for pints – ten instances of when matches weren’t cricket
da pinnacle： Ed Kemp02-Nov-201610. Silly Brearley
Frustrated at Yorkshire’s unwillingness to engage in a run-chase, Middlesex skipper Mike Brearley once indulged in a “game within a game” with left-arm spinner Phil Edmonds. Removing the short-leg fielder, they instead placed his helmet at short mid-wicket in the hope of persuading Jim Love or Richard Lumb to play against the spin for the five-run bonus and offer a catch off the leading edge. “Childish?” Brearley asked in , “Probably, but if it were not for the child in us we would never play games at all.” His bit of fun led to the ruling that unworn helmets can only be placed immediately behind the keeper.9. The six-delivery dash
With yet another rain break having annulled any hopes of a result in the County Championship match between Yorkshire and Sussex at Headingley in 2007, the only game in town for the home side was increasing their over-rate to avoid a points deduction. . A compendium of AOC’s best top tens – the good, the bad and the downright weird – will be published by Bloomsbury in early 2017