Gary Baxter Cricket Umpire Hit

[dazbop68]

At least he stood up and did`nt roll round the floor like the soft fuckers who play football like pansies. The fukin lot of em !!!

[ankurmvit]

What happens if the batsman hits the ball in the air, the ball hits the umpire, lobs up and the fielder catches it. Will it be given out?

[AlexJamesSmith123]

@kiwiboy2012 Umpire ARE HUMAN. Humans make MISTAKES. Don't like it don't play or watch it.

[jbonsaiw]

Gary Baxter played a lot of top grade cricket in christchurch and pretty sure he represented Canterbury at Rugby league, he was a good sportsman in his day, but to be fair in is in his late forties or early fifties and would imagine his reactions have slowed down from his playing days. Plus a leg stump full toss smoked by an international batsman good luck trying to catch it let alone avoid it at his age and he would not have been expecting it, so respect to him I say

[damaged2]

@jbonsaiw Is a leg stump full toss a pitching move?? seriously, I know very little about cricket, I'd like to know.

[jbonsaiw]

@damaged2 not really, it is not somewhere you should be aiming really far too easy for an international batsman to hit. Plus you have less fielders on the leg side so want the ball out side the batsmans off stump. the full toss itself is a legal and sometimes used delivery but not that much margain for error

[kiwiboy2012]

finally umpires get a beating they truly deserve thats all for the bad decisions they have ever given

[jpcrabtree1]

He'd have been better of cathcing the ball. The commentator gets his priorities right, saying how he's got NZ a four! :L

[TheWheelofLife100]

he probably had just about a bit over .50 of a second to react.

[DesiR3prznt]

OMG bangladesh just cant get a break

[BritTechGuy]

he wasn't trying to catch it, that's what umpire do to prevent getting hit in head or chest.

[mancity1000]

Why did he try to catch it? As umpire, he should duck

[vickk777]

bangladeshis cant hit at proper place ,thats st the boundary;so they hit at the umpires

[Mr12inches1]

@vickk777 The batsmen might have thought that the umpire was a fukin indian due to his gay gestures, so he wanted to get the fool out of the way and show him his proper place.

[shahrukh2k9]

lmao looks like he was trying to crocodile snap it

[Squinch24]

goes to show the reaction speed players have to catch there

[Hamish808]

rofl.. i no why he doesn't play cricket.. cuz his reaction is shit

[28PaulS]

To be fair to the umpire, the ball did curve in the air, so at first he would have thought it's going past him. Then the ball started to curl and it was too late to react.

[charlieisgone]

First he though to catch it, then he realize ohh damn I am umpire

[hamzie11]

@charlieisgone LOL

[bazoski1er]

what slow reactions

[reubenw59]

shouldave just caught it, would of maybe been called a dead-ball...

[uncontrollableriot]

lol only if he could catch

[hawty0boy]

haha thats why he never got into cricket

[WRESTLINGFANATIC2450]

He should be on the off side anyway. His fault.

[montypanesar111111]

no its not umpies are supposed to stand at square leg

[skullrust23]

haha worst comment ever

[gorby751]

@WRESTLINGFANATIC2450 LMAO! u know so much abt cricket! haha!

[woodamler]

Thats why they call it the SQUARE-LEG umpire

[fendweller]

Looks like he made to catch it then remembered he wasn't a player but an ump and tried to abort. Result - he looked like a social team fielder, who routinely drop dollies like this!

[mrbennnn]

That was a dolly!

His eyes weren't following the ball, terrible commitment from Gary Baxter there.

[Hughesyhfc]

what a dickhead, he should've got out of the way!

[hayul1]

Very nice one

[SouthWestTrains455]

It does look like he tried to catch it!

[IanGorton]

inadvertantly yeah. I dare say eh was just doing self preservation. Also notice how you can hear in the background the MASH theme playing

[harshhegde]

rvfharrier... did u make any sense? U dick head.

[rvfharrier]

Hmmm, wonder what would have happened if he'd have caught it. If he did what he did then no one can blame him since he just didn't react to it, probably didn't expect it xD. But if he caught it then I suppose people are going to start saying "he did it on purpose", "if he had time to catch it he could easily have gotten out of the way", "he purposefully obstructed the game" etc.

[punkdrummer444]

how fast do those guys throw

[Frenzy786]

if you mean the bowling, up to 100mph, but most internatonal fast-medium bowlers bowl at 85mph

[ruff22]

would of been better in the face

[thisisinstant]

He should have caught it, the fucking asshole

[smackthedonkey]

Did it break his wrist or what??

[DumKopfNZ]

Na, he was ok.

[maikelclifton]

lol i was there it was so funny but convinient

[mhull13]

That should be Anil Kumble's game plan for the third test, if the umpire makes a poor descision break thier arm.

[dew87]

Would have been more funny if he caught it.

[shafi1989]

OMG!

[squeekme]

lol yea it was pretty funny when they put on the MASH music :)

[cricketnz1]

Almost caught him out, heh.

[bagh98]

OUCH!

[DumKopfNZ]

lol at M*A*S*H music :)