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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Howzat on December 28, 2008, 11:21:24 AM
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Do you guys find that the old guys on your team.... 65+ tend to block and block and block and block then nudge a single and repeat the cycle?
Drives me nuts ???
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Will be us one day Leo....Not for a little while yet though!
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Indeed GreenDog. You have to give them respect playing at that age tbh.
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Yeah it really does piss me off!!
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I played with a guy at my old club, but he's still going, and he's nearly 60. We once shared in a 200+ run partnership, of which I contributed about 70 and he scored the rest. He was very unorthodox but very effective and scored over 30,000 runs for the club.
So no, not all oldies are nudgers and nurdlers
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We don't have any at our club, but i sure don't mind bowling at them. Helps my figures big time!
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Hmmm 60 next birthday and still play from time to time. Due to an old knee injury quick singles are out of the question. I enjoy the young quicks bowling to me. Took 24 off an over of the next best 'thing' in cricket early on this season. Helmets make me still feel invincible, lol.
"Mate I hope you have a good dentist" is still not a sledge to the close in fieldsmen, it's just a piece of friendly advice.
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No Andy they are opening the batting and we are all sitting on the boundary complaining as none of us get to bat
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I've seen a few but a bloke on the gold coast is probably one of the biggest hitters south of brisbane and he's over 60. Apparently he taught andrew symonds how to thump the ball.
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yh i cant sand them. and i hate it when they a batting before you and then when you get into bat with them u cant run the singles or 2's as the are f**ked.
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yh i cant sand them. and i hate it when they a batting before you and then when you get into bat with them u cant run the singles or 2's as the are f**ked.
made me laugh the last bit
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We have 72 year old in our team. Commitment from him is 100% always. Is a spinner and managed to take 2-3 wickets in every match. What he lacks in speed he makes -up in experience.
Though his batting is block, block, block.... that can be helpful sometimes.
In one of the matches we re facing defeat and he managed to block and nudge for 15 overs. When the opposition put in close fielders to catch his block and nudge he didn't mind taking blows on his body.....
How many of us will have this sort of a commitment at that age..... that is if we can still play.....
strengths and weaknesses are subjective and dependent on a given situation... a strength can translate into weakness in a different situation...
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true but there has to come a time when these guys are taking up valuable spots in the team that could be better used giving a young player a start in seniour cricket or moving up to the next level eg 3rds to 2nds or 2nds to 1sts etc there has to be a balance.
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OH yes youth.
As we watch the umpiring ranks being thinned of experienced older umpires because associations are giving 'younger' umpires preference.
Oh and I wonder why the complaints from clubs about the lowering standard of umpiring are increasing. Hmmm. Let's guess at that one shall we.
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Theres a guys a Martinstown in dorset...sheer quality plays for their sunday team....we thought he was a walking wicket
WE THOUGHT WRONG....
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also helps the bowling figures maiden after maiden for me lol
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If you were bowling at a chap i know you wouldnt like your bowling figures.... Hes 62 and ex county.... No slogs just pure class
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Yes, they are useless, they think theyre as good as they used to be, theyre in the team for sentimental reasons, Captain's too scared to drop them !
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lol, true. but quite a few of them are as good as they used to be, but there are a fair few people who are in the team because they have been in the team for x amount of years lol
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Useless hmmm! Must remember that the next few wickets I get. Jeez if you can't hit me now just imagine how bad you would have looked when I could bowl fast!!!!
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Oh yes another measly four, when I was younger they all would have been sixes!!!
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Yes, they are useless, they think theyre as good as they used to be, theyre in the team for sentimental reasons, Captain's too scared to drop them !
Not as good as they used to be but still better than most of the younger guys whinging about it, dosen't say much about the players they are keeping out does it.
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liking the tone of the last 2 posts! I'm not an oldie yet (though sometimes feels like it! I know some oldies who are a lot fitter than me!) but I certainly respect the oldies I do play against. Incidentally, I'm joint oldest player in the team tomorrow and I'm 27!
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I thought of this thread when a guy in his 50s, bowling offies, had me unsettled for a good part of 20-25 mins in the nets yesterday.
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theres quite afew in my club, they have the most shocking techniques . . .
but they no ther game, we played against sum decent oldies this year, but one of them got 24 of 42 overs, that was horrible
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So basically, they're just like cricketers of any age then. Some are good, others not so much.
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pretty much
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yes it annoys me so much about the older players.
it doesnt help that one of them is a (No Swearing Please) as well
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theres a person who plays for my club who is 70+ plus, hes playing in the 4s just coz he always has, we tend to open with him for one reason, he wont last long, but he mite bat for 7 odd overs, and hes there just to take the shine off the ball, its a brilliant ploy
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i played a touring side the other day with an old batsman, our 2nd team opening bowler got tonked around the park and the batsman got 50 in about 12 overs. he was well into his 70's.