Thread by @RandomCricketP1

Had fun on Spaces today with @allaboutcric_ where we discussed cricket photographs. The conversation moved from pace bowling to run outs to crowd banners before the Spaces crashed. Thanks to all who joined. Here's a thread on some of the photos that I talked about
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Since we discussed the pace trio of Akhtar, Lee and Tait, I talked about this particular photo that I find really iconic when it comes to Akhtar. This is from Pakistan vs Sri Lanka match in the 2011 World Cup. And he was still rocking the speedometer.

The conversation then moved to run-outs courtesy my old tweet on Mayank Agarwal's strange run out from a 2015 match b/w India A and Australia A which led us to talk about Misbah's runout from 2007 Delhi Test and then we landed here - Inzi's run out from 1999 World Cup

Runouts also led us to Rob's famous video of Steve Waugh running his mates out which led us to this incident from the 1995 Perth Test where Steve was stranded on 99 in a Test because Mark failed to make his ground running for McDermott. The expressions on those faces tell a story

Then we talked about crowds in cricket and a bit on how hostile the New Zealand crowd is when Aus tours the country and vice versa. But we brought out one sweet little moment from the otherwise hostile history that includes flinging toilet seats and beer bottles. This one

where the vegan man, Peter Siddle, who worships Bananas and dismisses KP, is given one by a member of the crowd while playing in New Zealand. And then we realised that it's just not Aussies who get a spray from the Kiwi crowds, even Hardik Pandya was at the receiving end in 2019

for obvious reasons. Then the discussion moved to crowd banners in Australia in the late 90s and early 00s where people competed for $500 prize due to a contest run by Toyota and Channel 9 and how it led to some really funny and witty banners like this one aimed at Alan Mullaly

and not so funny and witty, and downright atrocious like this aimed at Darren Gough (credit for the hard work though. Rhyme and innovative use of Toyota's slogan 'Oh What a feeling')

And sadly, at this point, the Spaces crashed after 40 minutes of me blabbering about photos.