[Cricket] Roach breaks Sibanda's bat and bowls him at 95!! OMG!! MUST WATCH!

[alekmodi19]

It seemed like, bat was broken by hitting to the ground and NOT because of the ball !!

[pbn360]

fatal ball.........

[jokersmagic]

That bat broke as it hit the ground............

[rockstaraIishah]

LOL I WONDER Y SIBANDA WAS RUNNING AFTER BOWLED N WID BROCKEN BAT LOL

[waleed96hussain]

i dont know whats yous r talking about....that bat is a beauty.....massive sweetspot.... i have it

[trex0021]

@waleed96hussain all bats are different, regardless of the stickers on them, any bat can break

[prinzeraaj]

I bet he bought it from a chinese store!

[sahara7567]

i am cool japanese and my country s people play baseball and soccer but i don t love baseball because baseball is not funneyer than cricket

[Quarker99]

not a bad score anyway. 250-odd is a decent score by zimbabwe

[trex0021]

pretty tough on him, a new bat in zimbabwe probably costs about $3 billion...

[heathirving]

@trex0021

hahahahahaha fucken gold man!!!!

[jigafez]

did he raise the bat for his 95.

[felmultan]

Poor chap couldn't get his 100

[shreekoo]

gray nichols it is....

[abdulraheem525]

ohh very unlucky , sad moment :(

[SLDjkid]

if u look close there is an inside edge...bats usually dont brake where it broke...it happens wen a bat is not knocked IN well..btw bats mostly break at the splice!!

[dstus]

???

i dint get u

[shahry84]

THE BALL DIDNT EVEN TOUCHED THE BAT...!!!!!! :P

[vhdl1234]

the bat broke bcoz he hit the pitch with it, nothing to do with bowling speed

[sonofthedestroyer]

@vhdl1234,

The ball broke it aswell. Bat does not just snap like that because the batsman hit the ground only. Maybe a combination of both effects

[robin6053]

I Like "dannybans" comment,u look clever buddy,good.

[cooldraggon333]

Who won this match?

[dstus]

duuude...!!!!! roach dint break da bat....da batsmen hit da bat on da ground hard man.....U IDIOT!!!!

[aju323]

@dstus look carefully in da beginning.. his bat is broken into to halfs :P

[coolallizwell]

Warning!! he is bowling with grenade

[XxcricketXx1]

Since when do China make bats?

[mattcoll12491]

Do you think it could be repaired?

[mby2011]

lol



[waneeb1]

@dazedmonkeydude. Calm down buddy I bet u couldn't bowl like that

[dazedmonkeydude]

How is the commentator say hes beaten the batsmen ??

If the bad didnt break it would of been a normal defence !!!

Retard commentator

[dannybans23]

@dazedmonkeydude i dont think the ball hit the bat... i think it actually went "through the gate". cuz if u think about it, how can the ball hit the bat, break the bat, and still be able to go through and hit the stumps ?

[jimcat008]

Just like his knife of Aron Ralston....

[rocket1006]

I know they are from Africa, but couldn't they at least afford a decent bat to use? This is international cricket for crying out loud!

[c3vzn]

@rocket1006 Dude it's a Gray Nichols - English made...

[Ahmad12791]

gudness me cheap bat fucked up his inning

[ali500ist]

nice yorkker

[PortandFreo]

Can I point out, that most professional cricketers have hand crafted bats, The company pay the batsmen for the stickers on the bat. But because he is Zimbabwean i dont know if their are any hand crafters over there. So that bat may or may not be a gray nicholls bat.

[RafiqueHassan1]

he hit the ground hard with the bat......no credit to roach.....!!

[Persadish]

@RafiqueHassan1 If you go to 1:11 of the video, and pause it step by step, you'll see that the ball was already behind him before the bat exploded. The swing was late, the ball beat him clean to the stumps, and the bat exploded as a result of it contacting the ground. Great bowl, full credit to Roach for a great delivery.

[billybxox]

Rare for Gray-Nicholls bats to break tbf. MY Kookaburra Blade Runner did the same to me, off a slow spinner :S

[jobclarke]

ah love it......bad mind ;-)

[madclowntapia]

its not the ball that caused it... i think its impact with the ground.

[cfhasib]

Since when China started to make Cricket bats?

[IanGorton]

@cfhasib They don't.They're made in mainly India or Pakistan

[ploppersss]

@IanGorton in Pakistan.. Sialkot. "IHSAN" is the company.

[ploppersss]

@IanGorton but this one is "Gray-Nicolls" powerbow!! (:

[Apex540]

@ploppersss no.... its a nitri lol

[ploppersss]

@Apex540 nitro. lol okay. they all look the same :p

[Apex540]

@ploppersss yeah they do lol

[TheRooster94]

Oh dear. Not the best thing to watch if you've got a GN Nitro (like me)

[MrCricket90]

yeah unfortunatly for you your not hitting balls doing 150kph everyday so i wouldn't worry. 

[TheRooster94]

@MrCricket90 Fair point. lol

[afridi10]

that ball didnt break the batthe batsmen dd it by hittin it on the ground so hard..

[joachimrobinson1]

that bad is no good..i had one i bought a couple years ago and its go split the same way

[thurcombe]

pretty sure it wasnt the delivery that broke the bat, looked like he smashed it into the ground

[rodtorre7]

LOL WHO SAYS BRETT LEE IS FASTEST HAHAHAHA

ROACH UR LEGEND.HE WAS LUCKY DID NOT GOT IS FEET

[Suchitthedude]

Keimar Roach must be in 'quality testing' for bats

[luicoco1458]

that's a weird break. it broke half the bat instead of breaking off at the V

[MrMJ7]

...cheap African wood haha

[Xtatikgtbai]

I think it's actually a great piece of willow. Scoring 95 runs with it is pretty good, but Roach bowls at about 92-93 MPH, so the ball had some major heat coming in.

[randominitializer]

@Xtatikgtbai 95 mph delivery must not be a reason for a genuinely made cricket bat to break down like that!

[MrCricket90]

only other reason could be ... HE USES IT CONSTANTLY AGAINST THAT PACE. its made of wood not titanium.

[wajahat03322183441]

bat hit the ground thats why it brk

[rodtorre7]

@wajahat03322183441

PAKI PEOPLE STINKS, RU PAKISTANI?

[dingoDogMan]

"he's held this inning together". lol, the same can't be said about his bat!!

[sonofthedestroyer]

Sue Gray Nicholls ROFL

[TDC881006]

OHH my gosh what a shame on grey-nichols......nw people would start think twice b4 going with a grey-nichols bat

[oopaulorafael]

@TDC881006 KOOKABURRA rules

[IanGorton]

The bat is no fire wood

[mshk1989]

i'd really luv to see an ultra motion replay of this

[tomi1990]

Pretty sure he breaks the bat by smashing it on the ground rather than the ball breaking his bat

[TheNertsae]

@tomi1990 he must have hit the bat on the ground pretty fuckin hard to snap a 2 inch chunk of wood in half lol...some people are so stupid

[chintureddyk]

I was reading a column on cricinfo where the Zimbabwe's coach was saying that his players don't have quality cricket gear and the bats are of very low quality - not the English Willow generally used.. Such a sad thing that once a very competitive cricket team has to come down to this state... FUCK POLITICIANS

[tomi1990]

@chintureddyk Meant to send that to TheNertsae... my bad ;)

[chintureddyk]

@tomi1990 ..oh ok.. cheers!!

[tomi1990]

@chintureddyk Haha yeah I was agreeing with you ;)

[leomovivo]

so its like baseball with accents?

[bassinvada]

@leomovivo Yes and also less gay.

[ToadiAcceleratio]

He didn't break it though, really. He forced Sibanda to break it.

Actually, I guess, he did actually break it.

FUCK

[thivakar]

this video desevres more views

[spreacus]

If you look 1:10-1:15 you can see that the bat clearly didn't break the bails.

[athull08]

@spreacus If it had done, it wouldn't have been out.

[TheFreeForever]

This bat is completely useless!!!!

There are many bats that have faced 95 mph bowls nearly every ball and they don't break but this one just broke in an instant plus he actually did well to keep that yorker away from the stumps (if the bat didn't break).

[IanGorton]

Yeah terrible way to get out.

[shottaz400]

explosive!!



[therocksownss]

damn was that like a fucking plastic bat the guy was just short 5 runs to a century

[mrscrickey]

poor bloke i would have been so sad

[Yasir2038]

I only found out about this today they showed it on Question of Sport

[shehryar981]

Gray Niccols? I thought their bats were quality?

[jaxpower1]

@shehryar981 probably an imperfection inside the wood, would be near impossible to pick up during manufacturing. If that was the case, it doesn't matter who made the bat. Plus an impact on the toe of a bat at 90 mph would damage most bats.

[ashliski]

Ultimate fast bowlers wicket, the words 'move bitch, get out the way' come to mind. I bet Kemar watches this every day, I would!

[MrEtours]

most unlucky way to get out ever - unplayable

[avengerdaniels]

Did the ball actually break the bat or did the bat break as a result of the hard impact with the pitch? Because there have been faster deliveries than that and haven't seen that happen

[armjay]

@avengerdaniels I've seen it frame by frame and it looks like the ball hits the bat b4 it hits the ground so yea, maybe roach was consistently hitting the bat hard and this is the end result, regardless its awsome also can a rastaman translate what the dude below is saying.

[peaceandamrit]

@avengerdaniels

i think its more of everything happening at the right time or wrong depending wat team ur routing for........the bat prolly hit the ground at the right time when the ball hit the bat, and the pace definitely helped

[zeesham13]

@peaceandamrit, That's what happen's when you don't knock your bat and and apply linseed Oil.

[peaceandamrit]

@zeesham13 but he already had 90 something runs.......its more likely that when he tried to dig out the yorker the impact of the bat on the ground and the ball hitting the bat just shattered it

[mark2kol]

pussy klat star d blood klat man fuck up him bat.. ras klat

[Exfactor44]

That was a very sad moment watching that... such a pity when someone is let down by their equipment.

[peaceandamrit]

didnt let him down for 95 runs

[adi1234556]

@Exfactor44 u idiot..the bat broke coz it hit the ground..he was truly beaten for pace..

[3793806]

@Exfactor44 the ball the didn't hit the bat , and even if the bat didn't brake he would still out because the ball pass under the bat...he actually hit the bat on the ground that cause it to brake ( that's the magic ball)

[amrishr]

thanks a lot criclegend100

[sridharakella1995]

Whoa! great pace by kemar.

[peaceandamrit]

wonder how much that bat would go for in auction

[amrishr]

OMG... what a triple pain ... he loose his wicket, missed his century and he broke his bat worth hundred of dollars.... hahahahaha

[criclegend100]

hahahahahah @ amrishr well said mate! xD hahahahahah

[SLboycricket]

Zim lost. Gave a good fight. Top innings ended with a perfect lame way.

[123brfc]

thats the first time ive seen some1 carry their bat off in both hands

[SumFallGrace]

Thats just ridiculous. Shame on you Gray Nicholls. Cost a fine player a hundred.

[peaceandamrit]

didnt do anything for 95 runs

[BalldinhoVanessa]

I just canceled my order on that Bat....thank god i didn't hit Check-Out on the website!

[norths8]

@BalldinhoVanessa It cant be that bad a bat if a Zimbabwe batsman can score 95 with it...

[Barit0nist]

THIS ONE SICK!!!!

SICK SICK!!!!!

OMG

[Barit0nist]

and they lost ... as usual

[HalberdierMD]

badness still. shame they lost tho..