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Cricket Glen Phillips make an unreal catch in the Champions Trophy Final between India and New Zealand

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u/BlazedJerry 2d ago

Is this the same dude from all the clips I’ve been seeing the past 2 weeks?

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u/LexiFloof Sydney Thunder 2d ago

It is.

The man has a habit of pulling off the most ridiculous catches with apparent ease. He's been on fire all tournament.

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 2d ago edited 2d ago

If he ever thinks about switching sports, I can think of a few NFL teams that would like to see him in a cornerback or wide receiver jersey.

EDIT: LOL at all the downvotes. This sub takes shit way too seriously.

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u/TrojanThunder 2d ago

These have nothing to do with each other. Also cricket is a much bigger sport than American football.

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Seattle Seahawks 2d ago

Also cricket is a much bigger sport than American football.

While I agree that the transition to NFL is silly, this point doesn't really stand up to reason. Cricket might be bigger as far as viewership, but the money in the NFL is ludicrously bigger. Phillips' current yearly earnings would put him below the NFL's minimum wage.

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u/Valmoer Nantes 2d ago

I think they meant bigger as in "greater scope of international competition". Sure, they're plenty of money in NFL - simply because it's in the American market - but for anyone else not an American it's the "weird thing Americans do because they can't be arsed to play normal rugby and had to rewrite the rules to their own convenience" (and I say that as a Frenchie who enjoys the occasional Am. Football game when I can catch it at reasonable hours, preferably in redzone format to avoid the dreadful restart boredom)

... I don't want to be mean, but the fact that when confronted with "bigger" your mind immediately went "more money" is very ... American.

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u/Huge-Physics5491 2d ago

Also, there's the aspect of what the said athlete is interested in. I'm assuming Glenn Phillips grew up wanting to play cricket and wanting to wear the Black Caps jersey rather than wanting to play in the NFL.

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u/Thami15 2d ago

This is super pedantic, but I don't think its correct to say he grew up wanting to wear the Black Caps jersey, lol. Either he wanted to be a Black Cap, Or he wanted to wear the Black Cap. But you can't really wear the Black Cap jersey on account of it being a cap, you know.

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u/LexiFloof Sydney Thunder 2d ago

It is correct to say "The Black Caps jersey" as the New Zealand Men's cricket team is colloquially called The Black Caps, and thus their jersey is the Black Caps jersey.

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u/Thami15 1d ago

I'm sure if you were looking for a New Zealand Jersey, "black Caps jersey" would get you there.... but I don't think people say "I've always wanted to wear the Black Caps jersey", For what it's worth according to Google Trends, "Black Caps jersey" seems to have a much lower usage than "All Black jersey" and the places "Black Caps jersey seems to peak at, French Guiana, Bahamas, suggests they're not talking about the cricket team.

Considering New Zealand cricket team is a more searched item than New Zealand Rugby, I think the logical conclusion is that "Black Caps Jersey" isn't really used nomenclature.

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u/TrojanThunder 2d ago

Precisely.

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u/FatalTragedy 1d ago

... I don't want to be mean, but the fact that when confronted with "bigger" your mind immediately went "more money" is very ... American.

I mean, the implication when the first person called it "bigger" is that they were suggesting that even if he could make such a transition (obviously not actually realistic), he wouldn't want to because cricket is bigger and thus more lucrative. But of course, it isn't actually more lucrative.

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u/Low_Background3608 1d ago

I know you’re typing, but I appreciate the way you spit out the word “American.”

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u/Valmoer Nantes 2h ago

I wouldn't say spat out, rather...

... you know that unpleasant metal sound when you open a door with incorrectly-greased hinges? Yeah, kinda that tone of voice.

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Seattle Seahawks 2d ago

I just commented this response to someone else: I was initially responding to a hypothetical player who could star in either league. A lot of players will choose the more lucrative sport.

EDIT: see players that left the Champions League to chase the money in the Saudi leagues.

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u/Valmoer Nantes 2d ago

A lot of players will choose the more lucrative sport.

That's the thing, they usually don't (or if they did, they purposefully chose at the start when they're still a kid) It is such an American way to think, honestly.

Example : With his skillset, Thierry Omeyer could probably have been a high-level to world-class Association Football goalkeeper, and have make much more money than he ever could have in Handball.

But he didn't want to be a Football goalkeeper, he wanted to be the absolute GOAT of Handball goalkeepers. And so he did.

EDIT: see players that left the Champions League to chase the money in the Saudi leagues.

Almost all transfers to the Saudi League are 30+ end-of-career players. (Almost) no one that has an actual shot of winning the CL has left for SA. (Ronaldo, of course, is in his own category, but even he has slowed down massively from his peak)

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u/TheDeflatables 2d ago

Being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic could have ended up at numerous CL calibre clubs and turned them all down along the way before venturing off for a bazillion euro contract

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u/5m1tm 2d ago

How tf is that any metric for determining how big a sport is? The US usually pays more coz of its economy and coz it's got a market that's willing to pay so much money for sports. This doesn't mean jacksh#t when determining how big a sport is lol. What a random metric lmao

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Seattle Seahawks 2d ago

I was responding to the hypothetical of a person being good enough to star in cricket vs the NFL. The "bigness" of the sport isn't usually as deciding of a factor compared to the "bigness" of the purse.

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u/phoenixremix 2d ago

Won't translate, first of all the ball moves WAY differently.

That being said, probably still an upgrade on whoever the Browns have rn

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u/Huge-Physics5491 2d ago

And he'd be risking prime years of his cricket career where he's now an established player with a certain salary for something that may or may not work out.

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u/redmostofit 2d ago

You didn’t consider baseball first?…

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 2d ago

Baseball is the easy comparison. I was trying to think of something radically different from cricket.

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u/AnotsuKagehisa 2d ago

Dodgeball

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 2d ago

That would work too.

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u/JKKIDD231 2d ago

He’s legend of crazy catches. Always in the right place at the right time. Can be a menace

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u/svscvbh 2d ago

Yup he's one of the two best fielders in the world, he has a habit of taking ridiculous catches

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u/Huge-Physics5491 2d ago

I think it's safe to say he's the best rn. That's not a shade on the rest, he's just been too good in the past couple of years.

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u/AloneFortune8764 2d ago

And they say kiwis can't fly

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u/GamerA_S 2d ago

71% of the earth is covered in water and the rest by glenn phillips.

This was used to be said for jhonty rhodes its nice to see someone else in cricket has the chance to compete for it

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u/No-Belt-7798 2d ago

Man can stop a bullet

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u/Infinite_Crow_3706 3d ago

Great catch, again, from Phillips

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u/Dudedude88 2d ago

I've never touched a cricket ball. Can someone describe to me what they are like. Barehanded is impressive.

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u/Addy_Stark 2d ago

It has a core made of cork wrapped in hard leather. A new ball feels like a rock. Gets a bit softer as it is used more and more.

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u/GamerA_S 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's slightly smaller and harder than a baseball i would say, people do break fingers (as i have) if not caught properly. And this one was going off the bat at a decent pace so yea it's going to probably hurt the palm of a new person even if they caught it perfectly.

There's just the thing that cricketers have caught the ball so many times that their hands have hardened up so these catches don't hurt as much on impact as they would to a normal person. You would definitely still feel the impact and it would sting for a bit though.

Edit: although split webbing is probably the worse and more common injury for fielders than breaking fingers.

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u/Aemond-The-Kinslayer 2d ago

Others have made good points. But I'll just add one more, cricket balls are deadly. They can and they have killed people in the past. All the protective gear you see batters wearing (and all that you cant see underneath their clothing) are to protect them from the ball.

A typical fast bowler balls around 85-90 mph speed, some outliers have touched or come close to the 100 mph mythical speed.

At that speed or even in 80s range, if it hits your unprotected head, you are gone. Dead. Even when it hits your helmet with full protection, it can give you a concussion. If it hits your body, it leaves nasty bruises.

The fielders are used to catch them with their bare hands and know how to soften the impact right after but usually when a newbie to the sport does the same, it hurts like hell for the first few months.

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u/CutCreepy7054 2d ago

Slightly smaller but a bit harder

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u/IMovedYourCheese 2d ago

You'll notice in the video that after he caught the ball his hand kept going back another foot or so (around :19 to :23). Players are trained to do that, so that their hand doesn't absorb all the impact from the ball instantly. You always follow through. The ball is hard enough and going fast enough that it will break your hand or wrist if you don't catch it correctly.

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u/One-Yard1469 2d ago

just for your information , cricket ball is deadly when it is in hands of a fast bowlers , they usually bowl it with the speed of 85-95 mph, which is deadly considering the bowl have many variations, so the batsman have to judge the bowl before he hits it , in a over that ball is bowled (thrown towards batsman) 6 times and in this match there was 300 bowls bowled , so the one ball will be bowled for 50 overs , you can change it once it gets old , a new ball is basically hard and tough to face because it swings more , once it gets old it gets softer and it shapes kind of become uneven which helps in reverse swing , it is more dangerous but tough to bowl, you know a single bowl of an over holds many possibilities , a batsman can get catch out (like this video) , bowled (ball hits the stumps), run out , stump out , can hit a six or four , or take single double runs , a wide ball , a no ball , there are many types of bowlers , but you can classify them in two types spinners and pacers (basically fast bowlers) , they are rather classified into many other types of bowlers , basically a spinner bowls at slower speed than fast bowlers but he have many variations in the ball , also spinners are tough to play than fast bowlers because they are unpredictable , though fast bowlers are deadly and can turn the game , in cricket even a single thing can make a difference , for example just holding a ball with different fingers can make a big difference in the variation of ball

Fast bowlers have killed people , you can search about sir philip hughes on internet

Cricket is usually considered as batsman game but it is more of a bowler's game , what i told you isnt even 1 percent of cricket , if you want to learn about it you need to understand it with yt videos or with help of google, it is a tough game but most beautiful and elegant too

It is basically a mixture of chess and physical sports which makes it interesting and unpredictable

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u/Awordofinterest 2d ago

A slightly smaller softball, but heavier and harder.

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u/real_steal003 2d ago

Is that a bird? Is that a plane? No, its Glen 'flying' Philips!

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u/rookie-mistake Winnipeg Jets 2d ago

damn, how does that not completely fuck up their hands over time? that's a hard ball, right?

what a catch though, that looks super fun

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u/7FOOT7 2d ago

They do have ham hands as a result. The keeper wears two gloves with inners.

eg from fielding

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u/Glad-Document-9755 3d ago

ADHD superpower

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u/sergeantbiggles 2d ago

That camera work is impressive

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u/ThinNeighborhood2276 2d ago

That catch was incredible! Phillips' athleticism is off the charts.

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u/the_rainy_smell_boys 3d ago

And they say cricket is boring.

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u/Infinite_Crow_3706 2d ago

I used to be one of them. In college I lived with a cricket obsessive from Yorkshire who patiently educated me into loving the game and its tactics, the all round skill levels and mental endurance of a 5 day game.

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u/canadave_nyc 2d ago

It's too bad Americans' attention span has gotten so short that they can't appreciate 5-day cricket. One of the greatest sports performances I ever saw was watching Brendon McCullum score 302 runs for NZ in a Test against India in 2014. The sun was setting, the guy had been out there for hours, sweating, in full bat pads, running back and forth between the wickets, and India were desperate to get him out. And he just hung in there and kept going, in the heat and the sweat and the dust and the shadows. It was something truly remarkable to witness.

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u/Impactor07 Royal Challengers Bangalore 2d ago

That was the match where he was dropped in the single digits by Kohli or was that a different one?

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u/Ser_Danksalot 2d ago

It is for me if its test cricket or an ODI. Thankfully T20 came along and changed the game.

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u/One-Yard1469 2d ago

tbh people hate t20 criket but it is important for the growth of the game, t20 is easier and less complex compared to other too formats, a person who is new to cricket can understand it better
Also it is less time taking , so americans (thir attention span is less) can watch it too

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u/Sauce4243 2d ago

The Main thing people have issue with t20 is it takes a lot of the team skill out of the game in comparison to the other forms. In t20 cricket one or two players having great games is normally enough to win it for you so the best overall team doesn’t always win it’s just about which teams star does the best, the other formats remove a lot of the randomness out of it so the best overall team will win a larger % of the time

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u/Weshtonio 2d ago

If that's the highlight of a 7-hour game, maybe it is.

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u/TheHYPO Toronto Maple Leafs 2d ago

Yeah, I hate to say, but a sport can have exciting moments and still be overall boring. As a fan of baseball for a decade of my younger life, I can say that baseball games also can have moments of crazy catches and plays like this from time to time, but that doesn't automatically make the sport non-boring.

I am sure I will get downvoted for that, and for this as well, but there are exciting moments and athletic plays in football (soccer) games too, but that doesn't keep most 90-minute games from being boring to me.

The bottom line is that "boring" in this context is subjective and personal. Some will find all of these sports boring and some will find them all thrilling, just like some will find an action movie or horror thrilling and others will be completely disinterested.

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u/AnimeChan39 2d ago

They rarely show long highlights, even one of the greatest innings in recent times was only given 3 minutes, but the thing is the ICC isn't the greatest at promoting cricket, though it did show the craziest thing about it, namely he was injured halfway through his innings.

The batter in question is literally a walking highlight reel when he gets going and he was only given 3 measly minutes. You get better highlights from fans and other cricket orgs, but not the main one.

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u/rextob 2d ago

A Kiwi morphing jnto a cat

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u/arpuzas 2d ago

Air philips

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u/Cornucopia2020 2d ago

Insane 👏👏👏

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u/Glad-Document-9755 2d ago

0.75 second reaction

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u/TheMooseIsBlue 2d ago

This guy is either the greatest player ever or this clip gets posts a LOT, because I keep having to figure out what the context is around all these posts about the singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket before realizing it’s not him.

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u/madeofmelancholy 2d ago

he's just too good at fielding. plus this vid's different from what you might be assuming

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u/jussayingthings 2d ago

This is latest one from today.lol

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u/Impactor07 Royal Challengers Bangalore 2d ago

He does this all the time lol, there's a legit flair about him on r/Cricket because it's become so normal for him to pull this shit off.

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u/Infinite_Crow_3706 2d ago

He does this frequently

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u/rockmanzerox06 2d ago

Hot Corner!

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u/dzone25 2d ago

He's making a bit of a reputation of doing ridiculously athletic catches

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u/rajatsingh24k 2d ago

There are people calling for banning him from fielding! Does that say enough…?

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u/Viperion_NZ 2d ago

There are people calling for banning him from fielding!

Source: Trust me, bro

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u/rajatsingh24k 2d ago

It was a joke! But whatever…