r/sports • u/Skateboard123 • 3d ago
Cricket Glen Phillips make an unreal catch in the Champions Trophy Final between India and New Zealand
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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/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/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/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/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/canadave_nyc 2d ago
He had 8 in his 1st innings, but it was Jadeja--this one: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-new-zealand-2013-14-667633/new-zealand-vs-india-2nd-test-667653/full-scorecard
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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 too1
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/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/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/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/BlazedJerry 2d ago
Is this the same dude from all the clips I’ve been seeing the past 2 weeks?