Has Anyone Seen A Leave Like This?

[Lebbo73]

John Bracewell leaves a slow-dipping full length ball from Simon O'Donnell in 1991 and is bowled under his backside.

Simon O’Donnell was a magician with the slower ball. Good ODI all rounder as well. I remember watching him and he came in late as usual. Simon had scored 1 off about 12 and I was going off. Dad said be patient. Within no time he raised his bat for a 50 off about 26 balls. They didn’t have powerful bats back then in the 80’s either.

 

[Wallaby]

Ijaz Ahmed


(Cue match-fixing jokes)

 

[worbod]

Looks as though we can now add Stuart Broad to this collection. In the second Test against South Africa recently, he lets go a straight ball which ends up yorking him. It may not look too bad at first but on the replays you can see Broad does not play a shot to the full length ball. (Around the 12:17 mark)

 

[Caesar]

Brad Haddin employing the Maxwell leave to pinch a single off a free hit.

Even better is that going off that scorecard, he'd clearly hit a six off the initial no-ball.

 

[HTPunter]

Even better is that going off that scorecard, he'd clearly hit a six off the initial no-ball.

And then a suicidal run in the first over, just chaos of an over.

 

[melanChronic]

Looks as though we can now add Stuart Broad to this collection. In the second Test against South Africa recently, he lets go a straight ball which ends up yorking him. It may not look too bad at first but on the replays you can see Broad does not play a shot to the full length ball. (Around the 12:17 mark)

About a minute before there is another classic "leave and bowled" from Sam Curran.

 

[dumb]

Ijaz Ahmed


(Cue match-fixing jokes)

Ijaz was a gun but that's a doozy. Must have got the axe stuck behind the pad.

 

[Wallace Johns]

Good clip.
Comes complete with Mark Waugh loving Moises as well...

That was a hilarious leave. Almost as bad a leave as when Lattrell Mitchell left the Roosters!