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Cricket Announcers Lose It After Mic’d-Up Batter Hits Himself in the Crotch

Liam Livingstone is a cricket player for the Perth Scorchers in Australia’s Big Bash League. In yesterday’s match against the Melbourne Renegades, he took a big bash right in the living stones not once but twice.

Livingstone was wearing a microphone and his audio was being fed directly through to the broadcast, which means we got to hear his anguished “Ooohhhh!!!” when he hit a ball directly off his crotch.

When it happened again later in the same turn at bat, his reaction was even better. The three-person commentary booth all cracked up when Livingstone’s mic caught him yelling, “Ohh, nooo!