2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 12, Bangladesh v England
When Jason Roy reached his hundred against Bangladesh, he celebrated by ploughing into umpire Joel Wilson and knocking him flat on his arse.
This bout of slapstick almost certainly constitutes the all-time greatest World Cup hundred celebration. We know this for one simple reason: it was quite funny and we can’t immediately think of any other funny hundred celebrations at the World Cup and funny things are better than unfunny things.
Here’s a bit more detail on why it was funny (and therefore great).
The last one’s our favourite.
So, yes, undeniably a very funny incident, but if you for some inexplicable reason take issue with our conclusion and claim it wasn’t actually all that funny an incident at all, we can instantly disprove that.
Just look what Jason Roy’s collision with Joel Wilson managed to do.
Jason Roy’s hundred celebration made Trevor Bayliss move his face!
Trevor Bayliss did a recognisable facial expression!
(Eoin Morgan, who is very much learning the art of facial immobility from Bayliss at the minute, also did a face. Or possibly a yawn.)
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