You could only bowl a maiden in cricket: Just for laughs 

There’s many a quip between slip and lip in cricket. And cricketers, more so, are renowned for keeping their wits in the most trying of times. But this bitter batter didn’t seem quite humoured by the fair sex at all. Not since he was bowled out in a maiden over. 

But maidens shouldn’t dampen the gamesmanship of a prodigious cricketer as this Eskimo would suggest. “Don’t play ball with the snow,” his girlfriend called after him. “All you’ll catch out there is a cold.” 

But you couldn’t even catch a chill if you came a cropper in the outfield. Like this awful fielder who didn’t quite rejoice when he took the first catch of his life…He dropped it in disbelief. And this batsman didn’t quite brood over the frequent ‘nots’ he got at the crease…He promptly hung up his gloves and opened a duck farm. But none seemed so unfortunate as this hapless bowler. He was so bad that the opposing side counted him on their team. 

But for those who reckon they are wizards of the wicket, here’s a few posers you could bat your wits about with: 1) How could a bird wind up in an insect? 2) What’s the similarity between a trade union leader and a batsman? 3) Why are cricketers considered to be a hardy lot? Answers: 1) When you bat in cricket. 2) Their success is counted by their strike rate. 3) Heard of any cricketer who died of a stroke?