Brilliant way to draw a larger crowd to the event, which in turn just makes a larger party attitude, which in turn just makes the event better. Fantastic marketing.
A beer company did this in New Zealand in 2014 and at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. It ended up getting dropped because of the danger of fans scrambling over each other to catch the ball.
Easily my favourite channel on UA-cam. I really enjoy how Jomboy takes a different angle from other sports channels by focusing on the human drama in sports. It makes me feel like I'm connected with the people I'm watching on the field and in the crowd. I really appreciate what y'all do.
That's what I find most sad about football broadcast; we almost never get to see the crowd's reaction to a touchdown or an emotional play. In European football, it's one of the things I like the most, get goose bumps every time. Sometimes I even replay the same goal multiple times to see different people's reactions
I love seeing the crowd celebrating together and having a good time no matter who they’re rooting for. Maybe we (Americans) could learn something from this?
Bruh. MLB needs to do this too. Looks fun af. Plus would increase ball awareness since people are now incentivezed to pay attention. I assume a couple thousands would be a lot less than any potential lawsuits or bad PR
They need to add this to MLB. $100k prize pool at each mlb stadium. Every one hand clean catch during regular season results in a share of the prize at end of season. This would 100% sell more tickets. I know I’d go to an extra game or two for this chance. Plus the excitement.
Amazing content Jomboy. I have been watching your content for a long long time and I want to thank you for bringing us this style of genuine sports entertainment.
Yeah, very different from baseball. Regardless of all the cameras and all the witnesses, someone will try to wrench the ball out of the person's hand and act like they caught it here with baseball. I'm glad there's a sport out there were people can celebrate each others victories instead of celebrating over each others misery.
"someone will try to wrench the ball out of the person's hand and act like they caught it here with baseball." That's because in baseball you get to keep the ball.
I saw loads of negative stuff about SA lately. To see all these people hugging, hi fiving, etc People clearly from all continents... its a beautiful thing.
Our government is a joke, but the people are some of the best you could ever hope to meet. Confronting our racist past has forced us to actually deal with what happened, and it has brought the whole country closer.
It seems there's an average of about 10 sixes per match, so even though there's a share of that $105k, you could have a real slugfest going on and still probably walk away with $25k. Edit: Looks like there were eight total catches, each guy won about $13k.
Americans would probably beat the hell out of each other before the ball got there, then miss the ball. Then sue the guy you beat the hell out of because his blood made your hand slippery. Thus causing you to drop the ball. But at a Toronto Blue Jays game, they would apologize for being in the way, and buy you a Molson.
can confirm, miraculously I was on a golf course and heard tree Russel behind me and turned around to get hit in the eyeball with a drive off the tee. my glasses took the full force and the lens popped out and now there's a scuffed mark with dimples in the square middle of the lens. but if I wasn't wearing the glasses my eye would've been gone. not the socket or the bone around but the eyeball itself everything was black for a bit then came back and was fuzzy but I got minimal bruising from it
There is a very good reason they must throw the ball back. The ball wear and tear is a big part of the bowling sides tactics throughout the game. The bowling side rough one side of the ball and shine the other side of the ball using spit and their pants with the seam separating the 2 sides. This causes the ball to swing when being bowled. Because the wear and tear only happens over many overs (many hours) it's importent to keep the ball in play
I wear glasses and had a pair break when I was working in a PE class, similar situation as the guy early in this video except I got hit by a volleyball when some kid got way too aggressive. I got lucky and it hit me on the side of the head, but when it broke the frames on the side, I got some serious scratches. I can only imagine how bad it was for the guy who got hit in the eye socket.
NZ had this in, was it the 2014-15 summer? Basically a fan at a domestic T20 game took an absurd one-hander reaching down from the front row, and it made enough news that they ran a compeition for the ODIs all summer (which was leading up to the world cup). You had to buy a special orange t-shirt to be eligible. A couple of catches were made by folks without the shirts... Anyway, it was very popular and there were very big crowds all summer long. You couldn't do it every year, but it was great publicity.
Thank you for uploading both episodes one after the other i hate watching pt 1 and then having to wait a week for pt2 which ive already forgot pt1... its just annoying, so thank you
All the money is split between the winners in one season. In this particular season, 8 winners split the $100,000 (USD converted) which resulted each taking home about $13,500.
Probably a person who came with someone with a wheelchair. I had a friend like that and it was awesome going places with him because you get the best seats with the most room and everyone kissed his ass
I never caught an HR ball, or caught one in my eye socket, but I did barehand a screaming baseball full of backspin that flew off the top of Benito Santiago's undisciplined bat in the second deck behind home plate at the Murph in 1987.
i want t20 in anchorage, alaska. i don't have the time or resources to do anything about that desire but if someone else did, i'd be there. maybe instead of the summer drunk softball leagues...
Playing racquetball once I got smacked square in the face with a hard smashed ball, and felt almost nothing. Except my goggles literally split in two and popped off. They took the full force and left my beautiful face unmarked. So yeah, glasses dude was probably pretty lucky...long as the lens didn't shatter and go in his eye, those glasses acted as safety goggles.
awesome breakdown, and it has an intersting sociological dimension to it: even though apartheid was abolished many years ago, there is still a huge inequality between black an white people in south africa. So I thought it was quite wholesome to see very different looking people both win and celebrate together. gives me hope for our species ✌
I am one of the few Americans to actually play cricket rather regularly….and the Biggest Biggest difference is the pure lack of Fundamental Catching with these guys….Playing baseball my entire life…we go through hours of fielding, catching, throwing….they almost exclusively concentrate on Batting and Bowling (pitching). They put the overweight American in ‘left-center’ because I am one of only 2 guys on the team that can clean catch a fly-ball.
Professional cricketers who play at the highest level are very well trained in catching, throwing and fielding. However, unprofessional or semi-professional cricket players do not get proper training in these matters.
I’m aware this would be very difficult but the amount of people that don’t have an idea of how to effectively barehand catch a ball is astounding to me lol
It's not how to effectively barehand a catch that's the issue, that's how catches are done in cricket if you're not a wicketkeeper. You don't get gloves. The issue here is catching one handed when you're used to using two.
The only time Ive actually touched a ball at an MLB game was 2018, DJ (he was a rockie for years and I never managed to spell that stupid frenchy name right lol) fouling a fly ball down the 1B line around the foul poll in RF. I had the perfect shot, saw it right away and only had to move over to in front of my brothers seat (who isn't a big sports fan and wasn't trying to catch it). Camped right under it. Unfortunately, it was 10 PM in late september in Denver, and it had been snowing. If it had been summer i guarantee Id have had no problems. But my hand was so cold and raw the seams actually CUT my palm lol. Had a baseball seam pattern literally embossed in my palm for a few days. It was also one of the only times I didn't have my glove with me when sitting in a location that one could land. Wouldn't have had any trouble then, not like any fans knocked it out of my grasp or anything. Oh well...
I hate when mlb tosses people from the game when they reach and ACCIDENTALLY fall onto the field. Especially when they try their hardest not to not fall because they know the rules. There should be intent for an ejection.
Seems like there is a certain level of drunk you have to be. Drunk enough so that your wrist is supple and you don't feel the pain, but not too drunk that you have zero coordination to get to the ball.
Lol the most ive ever done in a sporting event was make the little basketball in the rims they carry around NBA games it was at a magic game when Kyrie dropped 60 points
Brilliant way to draw a larger crowd to the event, which in turn just makes a larger party attitude, which in turn just makes the event better. Fantastic marketing.
This absolutely electric. Being in that crowd is probably some of the most fun you can have at any sports event
I went to a few of them and it’s an amazing vibe at these games
If they didn't know each other that's a hell of a way to get acquainted, bobbling balls together
it's like two people spilling beers, except you don't have to figure out who buys the next round
Man, growing up in Australia there is nothing that induces unbridled joy like taking a one-handed specie in a crowd of your mates. Love it!
i remember tui doing catch a million years ago, but you had to be wearing a certain shirt
A beer company did this in New Zealand in 2014 and at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. It ended up getting dropped because of the danger of fans scrambling over each other to catch the ball.
Sounds very NZ
That's why they'd never do it at baseball games. People fight for just the ball. Imagine if money was involved, even if it was only like $500
I've learned more about sports outside of the USA in the last 12-18 months just from watching Jomboy than I have in my entire 42 years on this planet
Easily my favourite channel on UA-cam. I really enjoy how Jomboy takes a different angle from other sports channels by focusing on the human drama in sports. It makes me feel like I'm connected with the people I'm watching on the field and in the crowd. I really appreciate what y'all do.
That's what I find most sad about football broadcast; we almost never get to see the crowd's reaction to a touchdown or an emotional play.
In European football, it's one of the things I like the most, get goose bumps every time. Sometimes I even replay the same goal multiple times to see different people's reactions
2,000.000 Rand (South African) is worth about $100000 USD for those wondering...
Or 100 grand (100,000) for those having trouble without the commaa.
Or one thousand hundred dollar bills for those unable to imagine currency larger than they’ve held…
Or 100 racks for those having trouble of making it out of elementary
@@radoverpink or 100k if you dont like the letter "G". Keep it going lol
@@SaltyChipor "comma" for those who are struggle with the double 'a.'
;)
I just love how happy everyone is when someone catches it
Eternally grateful for your love of cricket. This one of your best.
"I was gonna catch it like this.. and then i was like.... ahhh idk what happened actually"
Thanks to Jomboy breakdowns, I woke up at like 3am to watch the Cricket World Cup final. What a fun sport!
The T20 World Cup (shortest format) starts up in June. It's being hosted by the West Indies and the USA. Might be a bit easier on the body clock!
@@goodshipkaraboudjan There is a good chance I'll be at one of those matches. T20 Cricket is so perfect for getting people into the sport!
Aw man, this was fun to watch. Love to see everyone happy for them. Good stuff.
I love seeing the crowd celebrating together and having a good time no matter who they’re rooting for. Maybe we (Americans) could learn something from this?
What are you going to do with the money?
Last bloke: BILTONG!
You doing great crowd reactions, Jomboy, is immensely fun. This really was wonderful.
Bruh. MLB needs to do this too. Looks fun af. Plus would increase ball awareness since people are now incentivezed to pay attention. I assume a couple thousands would be a lot less than any potential lawsuits or bad PR
7:56 I love that even Security is smiling.
There have been examples of police and security going for catches in Australia recently. One constable pulled off a classic diving catch.
They need to add this to MLB. $100k prize pool at each mlb stadium. Every one hand clean catch during regular season results in a share of the prize at end of season. This would 100% sell more tickets. I know I’d go to an extra game or two for this chance. Plus the excitement.
This promotion was first done in New Zealand. Eventually stopped because of the safety issues Jomboy mentioned.
Amazing content Jomboy. I have been watching your content for a long long time and I want to thank you for bringing us this style of genuine sports entertainment.
This is so cool I wish baseball did stuff like that
there'd be too many fights. people already fight over just the ball. someone would get hurt falling over a railing or there'd be a fight and cancel it
This is an awesome contest, but I feel like in North America someone would die trying to win.
Man I love this channel, just fun content all the time
As someone who had a foul ball go into and out of my hand at a Pirates game last year, this compilation makes me feel better
I think the joyless orange shirt guy from Part 1 is still my favorite.
Great breakdown "series" ... I thoroughly enjoyed it!
6:23 hand is all red, looks like it probably hurt to catch it!
Cricket ball is harder and heavier than the baseball's
Holy smokes, even though it's split 9 ways, that's still close to $11,500 in USD - That's a lot of money for a catch.
They double the money if catchers have Betway (sponsor of this event) app installed on their phones with an active betway account.
Double it if you have "bet away" app in your phone
This looks so fuckin fun. It makes me want to go see cricket in this league. What a great idea.
Yeah, very different from baseball. Regardless of all the cameras and all the witnesses, someone will try to wrench the ball out of the person's hand and act like they caught it here with baseball. I'm glad there's a sport out there were people can celebrate each others victories instead of celebrating over each others misery.
"someone will try to wrench the ball out of the person's hand and act like they caught it here with baseball." That's because in baseball you get to keep the ball.
Love Jomboy breakdowns 🙌🏽
Such a great way if encouraging people to turn up to a game, and also it makes that environment so electric!
I'm from the US and don't understand cricket at all. But the more I see of it, the more I love it.
A ball in the hand is worth two beers on the ground.
Underrated comment! 🤣
Ball in the hand is like beer for life. Each of these catches is ~10 grand USD.
I have to aprecciate the fact that jomboy's face was moving like it was the youtube player timeline.
10:00 same energy as Jake’s Captain League catch cele where everyone else drops dead
My favorite sports commentary channel out there.
I saw loads of negative stuff about SA lately. To see all these people hugging, hi fiving, etc People clearly from all continents... its a beautiful thing.
Our government is a joke, but the people are some of the best you could ever hope to meet. Confronting our racist past has forced us to actually deal with what happened, and it has brought the whole country closer.
best thing ive seen lately from s.africa is the strengthening of the EFF!! yalla yalla
is it because SA got ICJ to tell off israel about their version of apartheid??
@@joesmithin smoking your socks, whilst not strictly illegal, is still not advised.
They call South Africa the 'Rainbow Nation'
Loved the Beer to the left, beer to the right, ball in the center! Great Video!
so good. what a great promo.
It seems there's an average of about 10 sixes per match, so even though there's a share of that $105k, you could have a real slugfest going on and still probably walk away with $25k.
Edit: Looks like there were eight total catches, each guy won about $13k.
That's a lot of money for the average South African.
This is of the whole tournament. So total of eight catches taken in over a month (and countless misses)
you double the amount if you have betway account $13K+$13K=$26
Yeah this was one of the more entertaining videos. Loved both videos. 😂😂
Dude in the hard hat kills me. Imagine sitting around a baseball game wearing a hard hat.
what surprises me is that no one tried to steal any ball from someone who caught one. theft is quite prevalent at american baseball parks.
In cricket you do not get to keep the ball. You have to throw it back.
I had a the exact same thing happen to me once at a Braves game where I took a home run ball to the eye. That shit suuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
Average income in South Africa is R25,000 per month. So it's like 6x 1 years income or something for a catch....
That’s about double or even quadruple most peoples monthly incomes, but the 2m gets split between all catchers.
@@NickJacksonZA oh I didn't realise that, thought it was for each one.
What an AMAZING promotion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Literally people who have no clue about the sport are now tuned in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine MLB doing this. There would be a near riot in the stands after every home rum
Would last 5 minutes until the lawsuits start.
MLB… are you paying attention? Would be awesome to see, but I’m sure it would be a legal nightmare to get something like this approved in MLB.
MLB seems to have zero idea of how market itself
Americans would probably beat the hell out of each other before the ball got there, then miss the ball. Then sue the guy you beat the hell out of because his blood made your hand slippery. Thus causing you to drop the ball. But at a Toronto Blue Jays game, they would apologize for being in the way, and buy you a Molson.
can confirm, miraculously I was on a golf course and heard tree Russel behind me and turned around to get hit in the eyeball with a drive off the tee. my glasses took the full force and the lens popped out and now there's a scuffed mark with dimples in the square middle of the lens. but if I wasn't wearing the glasses my eye would've been gone. not the socket or the bone around but the eyeball itself everything was black for a bit then came back and was fuzzy but I got minimal bruising from it
Poor choice of words though. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
There is a very good reason they must throw the ball back. The ball wear and tear is a big part of the bowling sides tactics throughout the game. The bowling side rough one side of the ball and shine the other side of the ball using spit and their pants with the seam separating the 2 sides. This causes the ball to swing when being bowled. Because the wear and tear only happens over many overs (many hours) it's importent to keep the ball in play
Less relevant in T20 but yes.
great videos, super fun breakdowns !
I wear glasses and had a pair break when I was working in a PE class, similar situation as the guy early in this video except I got hit by a volleyball when some kid got way too aggressive. I got lucky and it hit me on the side of the head, but when it broke the frames on the side, I got some serious scratches. I can only imagine how bad it was for the guy who got hit in the eye socket.
NZ had this in, was it the 2014-15 summer? Basically a fan at a domestic T20 game took an absurd one-hander reaching down from the front row, and it made enough news that they ran a compeition for the ODIs all summer (which was leading up to the world cup). You had to buy a special orange t-shirt to be eligible. A couple of catches were made by folks without the shirts...
Anyway, it was very popular and there were very big crowds all summer long. You couldn't do it every year, but it was great publicity.
This made my night. Thank you Jimmy
That was awesome.....some serious body on the line plays.
Love it man. Great idea. Best video of 2024 candidate.
@5:53 white t shirt clears out dude in front of him with a hard shove to the back lolol
Thank you for uploading both episodes one after the other i hate watching pt 1 and then having to wait a week for pt2 which ive already forgot pt1... its just annoying, so thank you
That reminds me of how I became
Legally blind in my right eye. Except dude threw at me on purpose.
All the money is split between the winners in one season. In this particular season, 8 winners split the $100,000 (USD converted) which resulted each taking home about $13,500.
That was the most nimble man in a wheelchair section I’ve ever seen
Probably a person who came with someone with a wheelchair. I had a friend like that and it was awesome going places with him because you get the best seats with the most room and everyone kissed his ass
I never caught an HR ball, or caught one in my eye socket, but I did barehand a screaming baseball full of backspin that flew off the top of Benito Santiago's undisciplined bat in the second deck behind home plate at the Murph in 1987.
MLB needs to do something like this!
1:35 black dude was like "shhhitt." Lol
Not in South Africa that’s American
i want t20 in anchorage, alaska. i don't have the time or resources to do anything about that desire but if someone else did, i'd be there. maybe instead of the summer drunk softball leagues...
Alas, cricket is generally not played in cold weather. I'm guessing anchorage must be pretty cold
For a chance at $100kUS I would probably go to every game.
My favorite quote from this whole thing was,
"It was in my OOOOooOoOHhhhhh"
"OhHHHhhhHhHHHHHHHH"
"ooOOOOoooooOOOoooooOhhhHHhHHHHHHHHh"
Wish there was a reasonable way to apply this to mlb
What was the guy wearing the construction helmet all about?
I think I read somewhere it was a kind of fans joke that they wore it to protect their head from that hard cricket ball in the crowd.
Playing racquetball once I got smacked square in the face with a hard smashed ball, and felt almost nothing. Except my goggles literally split in two and popped off. They took the full force and left my beautiful face unmarked. So yeah, glasses dude was probably pretty lucky...long as the lens didn't shatter and go in his eye, those glasses acted as safety goggles.
we gotta bring this to baseball stadiums, no gloves, one hand, has to be clean on a homer
That one guy looked like he flopped. Wrong sport 😂😂
Wow you promised and came threw almost too quickly 🎉🎉🎉
Dude, did you see that guy's hand after the clean one handed catch??? You missed it! Red as eff.
I love how many stipulations they made to ensure catches didn’t count as catches
I only know what I know about cricket because of Jomboy, but man do the games and the culture look fun.
This is so fucking hype 😆🔥
didnt disappoint
Jomboy,,, how do you not makin jokes about keeping your eye on the ball?
Does it have to be one handed? I would go all out trying with 2 hands
Yes it does.
Could you imagine the lawsuit in America with an injury in this contest?! Litigators in the country chasing these liabilities suck.
awesome breakdown, and it has an intersting sociological dimension to it: even though apartheid was abolished many years ago, there is still a huge inequality between black an white people in south africa. So I thought it was quite wholesome to see very different looking people both win and celebrate together. gives me hope for our species ✌
I am one of the few Americans to actually play cricket rather regularly….and the Biggest Biggest difference is the pure lack of Fundamental Catching with these guys….Playing baseball my entire life…we go through hours of fielding, catching, throwing….they almost exclusively concentrate on Batting and Bowling (pitching). They put the overweight American in ‘left-center’ because I am one of only 2 guys on the team that can clean catch a fly-ball.
Professional cricketers who play at the highest level are very well trained in catching, throwing and fielding. However, unprofessional or semi-professional cricket players do not get proper training in these matters.
I’m aware this would be very difficult but the amount of people that don’t have an idea of how to effectively barehand catch a ball is astounding to me lol
It's not how to effectively barehand a catch that's the issue, that's how catches are done in cricket if you're not a wicketkeeper. You don't get gloves. The issue here is catching one handed when you're used to using two.
$105, 000 USD just for catching a homerun is a lot. I figured the conversion would have been much lower
10k is still good though. 3rd hr of every game is a 10k ball
who else loves CRICKET 🏏🥵🏏🥳
Ohhh so its spilt among all of them? That's still pretty neat
The only time Ive actually touched a ball at an MLB game was 2018, DJ (he was a rockie for years and I never managed to spell that stupid frenchy name right lol) fouling a fly ball down the 1B line around the foul poll in RF. I had the perfect shot, saw it right away and only had to move over to in front of my brothers seat (who isn't a big sports fan and wasn't trying to catch it). Camped right under it. Unfortunately, it was 10 PM in late september in Denver, and it had been snowing. If it had been summer i guarantee Id have had no problems. But my hand was so cold and raw the seams actually CUT my palm lol. Had a baseball seam pattern literally embossed in my palm for a few days.
It was also one of the only times I didn't have my glove with me when sitting in a location that one could land. Wouldn't have had any trouble then, not like any fans knocked it out of my grasp or anything. Oh well...
I hate when mlb tosses people from the game when they reach and ACCIDENTALLY fall onto the field. Especially when they try their hardest not to not fall because they know the rules.
There should be intent for an ejection.
Very interesting because in America there would be a mon for each ball. Here they seem to give room for the guy to catch it
They did this in NZ six years ago but had to stop because it became so much carnage
Swedish rock concert?!?
Now that I've seen your face I can't believe you're not Jake Johnson.
Seems like there is a certain level of drunk you have to be. Drunk enough so that your wrist is supple and you don't feel the pain, but not too drunk that you have zero coordination to get to the ball.
glasses absolutely helped, would've likely had eye socket surgery without glasses on
Lol the most ive ever done in a sporting event was make the little basketball in the rims they carry around NBA games it was at a magic game when Kyrie dropped 60 points
That was hilarious