7 sights in cricket everyone just loves to watch

There is a strong point that cricket lovers can put forward in the game’s defence – it has a number of pleasing sights to offer than any other sport. All other games have a couple of aspects at best that are pleasing to the eye – football impresses you with skills on the ball, tennis can intrigue you with a classic backhand or a trademark serve, basketball has hefty 7-feet tall people pulling off mighty dunks that are good to watch, and the like.Motorsports offer just the one-dimensional thrill of speed, which is also the case with most athletic sports. No other sport has such a varied skill-set on display as cricket does.Now that we have established that cricket is the most aesthetically beautiful sport to watch, here goes a compilation of some of the sights that everyone just loves to see on a cricket field, which makes it a beautiful game. 

#7 Words exchanged in the middle

Okay, this is seldom pretty. But nevertheless, it is very interesting to watch what triggered it and what will follow it. The initiator is the bowling side more often than not, when they want to test a batsman’s patience and want to get him out. How a batsman responds to the banter is a treat to watch. Some cool heads continue playing the way they were; others lose their composure and subsequently their wicket.

It is also interesting to note the dynamics of both teams since the batting side is heavily outnumbered, whereas the fielding side has players from slip, gully and other close fielding positions backing the bowler in case a chat is initiated. Sometimes it is not evident to the crowd present in the stadium, but makes the day for the ones watching it on TV.

One would say it was part of the game plan for some teams. It certainly looked that way for the Australians. Everyone remembers Monkeygate and how spicy everything was for the players involved in it.

Some of the notable instances are when Andrew Flintoff tempted Tino Best to mind the balcony windows, and he ended up throwing his wicket away the next ball, dancing down the track and missing the ball completely. Freddie’s sledging had a negative impact, as well, when his sledge whet Yuvraj into hitting six sixes off Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup.

Here is another hilarious account of sledging – Ian Healy urging Shane Warne to put a Mars bar on good length, which would be enough to get Arjuna Ranatunga coming down the wicket. Another instance is when Javed Miandad called Merv Hughes a fat bus conductor and demanded a ticket from him when he was dismissed by the swarthy bowler a few balls later.