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CLUB ROAR WEEKLY: Cricket season returns and a wacky celebration

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11th August, 2017
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This week, Club Roar is looking to the future with the summer of cricket quickly closing in, players dusting off their bats and searching for those whites in the back of the cupboard. This is the best, worst and funniest of Club Roar over the past week.

Cricket season is full of long days out in the Aussie sun, slapping on the sunscreen and hopefully piling on the runs and wickets.

From the sweetest of sixes to the one-handed screamers, cricket season is full classic moments that define your Saturday arvo.

Club Roar is taking a look at some of the best of cricket as we lead into the new summer, plus an added bonus of one of the most spectacular goal celebrations you’re likely to see.

Melbourne University CC

This massive six is as good as they come
In terms of satisfaction in cricket, there are few sweeter moments for a batsman, or spectator for that matter, than the meaty sound of a huge six.

The tonk and echo of leather on wood that resounds across the oval. Well, this just might be one of the best.

Syed Hesham decides to take the fight to the off-spinner for Melbourne Uni, dancing down the wicket and landing the perfect lofted on drive, sending the ball long and high… and almost into the camera, landing dangerously close in the stands.

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The pure power and timing leading to one beautiful sounding cricket shot.

Sensational slips catch that would make Ponting proud
From the stands to the slips, Melbourne Uni is at it again but this time the batsman isn’t quite so lucky to send the ball into orbit, but into the hands of second slip.

Up against the Monash Tigers, this Uni batsman is caught back in the crease looking to push through the covers, only to land a thick outside edge.

The red ball just runs wide of Matt Mulcahy in second slip, only for the Tiger to throw out to the right mit and somehow latch onto a beauty of a one-handed catch low to the ground.

Geelong Cricket Club TV

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Keeper takes a one-handed screamer in mid-air
Speaking of outstanding one-handed grabs, this one has to go down as one of the catches of the year from Geelong Cricket Club keeper James Crosthwaite.

In the last over of the day against Carlton, bowler Jake Reed sends a tired shot ball down the leg side, forcing the batsman to chase the delivery over leg stump.

He can’t quite latch onto it, catching the glove and sending the ball down towards fine leg.

Just when you think the red ball is heading towards the boundary rope behind the wicket, Crosthwaite leaps into action, latching onto an incredible one-handed effort while leaping in mid-air, creating an epic image in the process.

Keeper hilariously stumbles all over the stumps
Moving from epic wicket keeper moments to one with a little less grace and elegance.

Coming up against Geelong, Northcotes keeper Lindsay Hassett, not quite the same former Test great from the 1948 Invincibles tour Lindsay Hassett, makes an absolute meal of this attempted caught behind.

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With the ball popping up off his own chest while keeping up to the stumps, Hassett fumbles the pill and puts in his all to regather it, at whatever cost.

That cost turns out to be flattening the wicket, stumbling over the batsman and falling over. He did hang onto the ball though so that’s a plus.

BONUS – Heidelberg United FC

Great goal eclipsed by even better celebration
Not cricket related, but outrageous nonetheless.

This is one crazy reaction to scoring a goal courtesy of Heidelberg United, unfortunately for them though, they were on the receiving end of this beauty.

Melbourne Knights fan favourite Elvis Kamsoba swooped on some loose defence in the 61st-minute to break the deadlock and take a 2-1 lead in the second half, but it’s the way he reacted that makes this so special.

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Not content with a leaping pose like Ronaldo or punching the flag like Cahill, Kambsoba goes on a flipping frenzy, tumbling his way to the sideline with four flips back-to-back… to back-to-back.

That takes some serious athleticism.

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