Cricket Announcer Loses It When Car Hit By Ball (Video)

Whenever a batted ball leaves a baseball field toward a parking lot, there is that momentary panicked feeling. A cricket announcer in New Zealand lived that moment.

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Jesse Ryder of Otago Volts in New Zealand’s Twenty20 cricket circuit is known as one of the heaviest hitting batsmen in the sport. He didn’t disappoint in a match against the Northern Knights when he belted a ball out of Seddon Park in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Announcer Ian Smith, a legendary voice in Kiwi cricket circles, was rejoicing in the blast by Ryder.

"“That’s out of the ground, that’s gone,” Smith said in a delighted tone."

That is, until the ball smacked the roof of a parked car outside the cricket ground.

Smith’s pain and anguish was real, very real, as he lamented the dent on the roof of what he believed was his car in the parking lot. Seriously, there are men that have not lamented a lost love the way Smith went on about a ding in the roof of a car.

His broadcast partner tries to be supportive when he asks if Smith is insured.

And that is when the sublime went to the ridiculous.

"“It’s a rental,” Smith bleated."

And boom goes the dynamite.

That couldn’t have been better if it had been planned. A rental? Of course, Smith goes on to detail his somewhat sketchy history with rental car companies (here’s an idea—take the bus).

But it ends on a happy, happy note when Smith realizes he might not have parked there at all. In any event, if it’s not a world record for anguish over a rental car, it’s got to be close to it.

Cricket Announcer Loses It On Air When Car Hit By Ball (Video)

By Phil Watson | Nov 13, 2014

Whenever a batted ball leaves a baseball field toward a parking lot, there is that momentary panicked feeling. A cricket announcer in New Zealand lived that moment.

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