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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Mr Cricket on March 22, 2011, 05:58:00 PM
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What are the little things that we take for granted during the season? what don't we notice at the time, but we miss during the winter?
I'll start us off by saying a good cricket tea
Picture the scene... it is the 39th over, you've been battered, bruised and frazzled in the field for what feels like an eternity, ruing the skippers wrong call at the toss which plunged you on to the field in this 30 degree heat, diving around, chasing lost causes, fetching balls from beyond boundaries, climbing over fences to fetch balls from neighbouring fields, your knees and elbows grazed from trying to stop that four, swatting away insects buzzing around you, gasping for a drink after the inadequately sized cup of juice you had after 20 overs has provided all of the nourishment that it could... THEN, the last ball is bowled, you finally drag yourself off to the comfort of the clubhouse and pile up a mound of lovingly pre-prepared food on your plate, you stuff your face. Subsequently feeling a touch bloated, you strap up your pads ready to bat, it is cooler now and a breeze is brushing your skin... this is a day at the cricket... and i love it!
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No paragraph but batting. Just batting. During the winter I always convince myself that I'm going to make every second count when batting, I never do, although each mistake helps me improve :)
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The fact you can walk outside in shorts and t-shirt and know you have no chance of being cold. 8)
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the smell of freshly cut grass!!!
nothing like turning up at ground and grass has been cut!
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The fact you can walk outside in shorts and t-shirt and know you have no chance of being cold. 8)
You must be playing in the Caribbean! It's been cricket season when we've cleared snow off the boundary in late April, and everyone fielded in gloves, wearing three shirts and two jumpers. No shorts in sight!
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bit of airball on the outfield before the match.. getting smashed in face with airball of the face of the bat at slip.
ur team mate giving you a wet cloth to put on ur eye to sooth the swelling only to discover the said cloth is used for bleech lol
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I wish I played in the Caribbean. In my eyes cricket should not be played in temperatures below 20ºC with wind or 15ºC without. We need a cricketing equivalent to the Geneva convention.
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Cricket's Geneva Convention
1) Cricket should not be played in temperatures below 20ºC with wind or 15ºC without.
2) There should always be enough tea for both teams to have seconds.
3) ....
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Cricket's Geneva Convention
1) Cricket should not be played in temperatures below 20ºC with wind or 15ºC without.
2) There should always be enough tea for both teams to have seconds.
3) ....
seperate thread Leo - I can add a few and it deserves it :-)
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Cricket's Geneva Convention
1) Cricket should not be played in temperatures below 20ºC with wind or 15ºC without.
2) There should always be enough tea for both teams to have seconds.
3) ....
3) If you score a 50 or more or take 5 wickets you buy a jug. NO EXCUSES i dont care if you are 15 or have to shoot off straight after the game
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Always freaked me out that in cricket you have to buy a jug for performing when surely others should buy you a drink for doing well
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Always freaked me out that in cricket you have to buy a jug for performing when surely others should buy you a drink for doing well
yeah, that always bugged me!
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A game of pin, that is the sign of cricket
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Rule 4. Any player registering a score of less than 15 runs should not be allowed to raise their voice in the field unless spoken to.
I get fed up of opposition players who looked awful and made no runs trying to have a pop at me while i am batting!
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When you look at the fixture list, find a team you don't recognise, google them and find out some of their members are teachers who either used to or currently do teach you.
Also the whole, last few overs with a few wickets before I go in, do I take off my pads or leave them on question.
Usually when you take them off the wickets start tumbling and when you don't nobody seems to get out...
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Rule 5 The same tea should be available for home & away teams
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Rule 5 The same tea should be available for home & away teams
Jesus, what club do you play at?! We have the same teas at every club...
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Rule 6 - Away team gets first shot at tea, really peeves me off when the home team dive in first
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Rule 6 - Away team gets first shot at tea, really peeves me off when the home team dive in first
Again, what?! It's an unwritten rule up our way, the away team always goes first!
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Thats what i thought, until i went to mosely ashfield, where they had starting eating before us, i was disgusted
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Always freaked me out that in cricket you have to buy a jug for performing when surely others should buy you a drink for doing well
In Lancashire you get a collection when you score a 50 or take 5 wickets i hate them buggers running out with the doe and no beers bought
Do you not have home and away tables best way to avoid imbarresment when your fat number 11 eats all the jaffas
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3) If you score a 50 or more or take 5 wickets you buy a jug. NO EXCUSES i dont care if you are 15 or have to shoot off straight after the game
Under 18s don't have to buy jugs at our club. I like this rule as I would have had to buy 14 :)
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Same teas for both at ours remember playing against Banbury Town 1stXI different tea fro them fruit & chicken drumsticks away team standard sandwich's etc
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when your fat number 11 eats all the jaffas
Hey hey! Don't diss the matchwinners!! We deserve all the rewards we can get!
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Know its summer when;
The mozzies come out in force
Look into the cricket bag in the garage to find a mouse nest
When you think, ''its 6.30pm, give it a month and i will still be outside chasing leather''
when you find out who the new additions to your club are
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You know it's the cricket season when you have just had the worst net of the winter.
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Under 18s don't have to buy jugs at our club. I like this rule as I would have had to buy 14 :)
My dad buys my jug for me! One of only a few benefits of having your dad in the same team!
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Apparently I have to buy them all when I'm 18. Will it happen? Not much chance :D
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You play cricket... ;)
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Always freaked me out that in cricket you have to buy a jug for performing when surely others should buy you a drink for doing well
Our team 'Jug' policy:
Home Games:
1. You must buy a jug if you hit 50 or take 5 wickets, regardless of anything.
2. You must buy 2 jugs if you hit 100.
3. Jug avoidance is not acceptable, therefore getting out between 45-50 or taking 4 wickets, is a jug.
4. If anyone hits over 140, it results in 3 jugs, plus another jug for jug avoidance (Not hitting 150).
Away Games:
Same rules apply, just replace jug with 'Crate' for the minibus!
Some poor lad hit 141* away from home, expensive trip to tesco after the game........!
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The first rule of the jug is: you do not talk about the jug. The second rule of the jug is: you DO NOT talk about the jug! Third rule of the jug: if someone yells "stop!", goes limp, or taps out, the jug is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a jug. Fifth rule: one jug at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the jugs are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: jugs will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at the jug, you have to drink!
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We have a jug list, and then run it up at one big pi** up at end of season, so is massive
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We do that with team fines after each game ends up keeping the team in beer for the night
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Team fines is the way forward. We do it every league match. £3 being the smallest and £5 being the most. No one escapes a fine, doesnt matter what you do in the game, good or bad, you will get fined. It is an easy way to get £500 at the end of the season for a lads night out.
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No one escapes fines with us
I knocked a match winning 70 odd not out against run away 2nd place and was fined for batting for my avg cheeky ba***ds
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once i got fined for bowling avoidance........was not impressed !
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We tend to keep fines for tour only. And it ranges from £2 up to £15 if oh doing something really bad. Not all cricket related. Fines build up over thrusday and friday then pay for meals and drinks Friday night. Fines from cricket pay for meals and drinks that night. Sunday fines are a bit more forgivable as it's the last day. Anything left goes towards a meal on the way back.
Fines throughout the season would be brutal! We would have a lot left for the end of season dinner!
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fines at my club are stupid if im honest. very over the top. on one of our lads last game for us, he got fined his PB. a quid a run.
heres his stats
http://bracebridgeheath.play-cricket.com/profile/statistics.asp?id=10780334
however it does lead to several club nights out during the season, messy nights out i may add
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Mark Atkins, 12.5 overs, no maidens, 3 for 155... good lad!
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Skipper too, hope he got a fair old fine for that!
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You know it's summer when that £300 odd quid you had been saving for a few years to spend on a another hobby ends up disappearing in the two months before the start of the season.
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This jug rule doesn't apply at my club not many get 50s
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I am not the most popular at my club at the moment, after scoring a ton I managed to "lose my wallet" but managed to buy myself a Bulmers. No-one was impressed when I offered everyone a sip as an alternative to buying a jug :D
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fines at my club are stupid if im honest. very over the top. on one of our lads last game for us, he got fined his PB. a quid a run.
heres his stats
[url]http://bracebridgeheath.play-cricket.com/profile/statistics.asp?id=10780334[/url]
however it does lead to several club nights out during the season, messy nights out i may add
I sense Felly's involvement here!
I was twelfers for a Lincs game when I was a teen - the fines afterwards were horrendous (luckily I wasn't included) - if you dropped a catch it was a quid a run for every extra run the bastmen went on to make - one opposition batsman was put down in single figures and then went on to a ton - ouch!
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I'm realising that the cricket season is here as I'm sat at my desk on a Tuesday morning and my body aches everywhere from Sunday's game
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3) If you score a 50 or more or take 5 wickets you buy a jug. NO EXCUSES i dont care if you are 15 or have to shoot off straight after the game
Haha yeah I'm 2 down now. Would seriously have bought one on Saturday but my cash card was blocked due to PayPal so I had no money. :( Same on Sunday unfortunately.
Though I can buy beer at my club they don't really care...I did the beer rounds for some people as the 2s captain was at the bar and 1 likely 2s player had been playing in the 1s and got a golden so didn't want the embarassment :D
I'm realising that the cricket season is here as I'm sat at my desk on a Tuesday morning and my body aches everywhere from Sunday's game
Same here, Saturday and Sunday :S - Most cricket I've played in a weekend in that I was out batting for 60-65 overs out of 77.. :)
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how them pads felling mate
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Lovely! :D - I have some SS Pads but at this rate I won't need them :)
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they are nice pads
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I sense Felly's involvement here!
I was twelfers for a Lincs game when I was a teen - the fines afterwards were horrendous (luckily I wasn't included) - if you dropped a catch it was a quid a run for every extra run the bastmen went on to make - one opposition batsman was put down in single figures and then went on to a ton - ouch!
Sounds about right that mate...