5 Completely unbelievable incidents in Cricket

By Shivraj Jadhav

Updated - 10 Aug 2015, 14:36 IST

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5. How long can a bail travel?:

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In England’s 1928-29 tour of Australia, the Poms were playing a match against Tasmania when English bowler Harold Larwood, infamous for the body-line series, delivered a ball that went straight on the stumps of Geoffrey Martin. During this dismissal, one of the bails was dislodged and traveled a whopping 67 yards 6 inches in the air before landing! It was almost equal to 212 feet and still remains a world record.

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