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Title: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 06, 2011, 04:50:59 PM
Being one of the members of my team who is a regular for boundary patrol at either cow corner, deep square or deep point, please wish me luck for this weekends game.
i say wish me luck as i am playing on a pitch that is directly next to another pitch that where the boundary overlaps. i could be fielding deep point or deep square on our pitch and at short square or short point on the next pitch. I may have to field in the deep with a lid!!

Ive even done a self portrait to show you where i may be. (must admit, i am quite arty!)

(http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z340/richardlucyburd/Cricketpitch.png)
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Liam-SCCC on July 06, 2011, 04:56:36 PM
It surely can't overlap that close to the square. Are you sure there is 2 games on there this weekend?

I played on a ground with 3 squares, if there are 2 games on they they USAF the outside 2 with the boundaries going up to the middle square and if there is only one game then they use the middle wicket
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 06, 2011, 05:05:42 PM
I can promise you that the boundary stops at the square on both pitches. I have played at both of these pitches for a number of years. I am sure that Canners has also played here in his time in the league.

And yes, there are always 2 games going on as both of the squares are owned by 2 different teams
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: langer17 on July 06, 2011, 05:18:46 PM
I can safely say that that has never happened to me, fields I play on are always big which means I rarely hit 6's, ahah lol.
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: stevie_94_ on July 06, 2011, 06:28:13 PM
This is similar to Leigh on Seas ground where their 4ths and 5ths play, they overlap sometimes
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 06, 2011, 06:45:47 PM
The ground is Leigh on sea and Westcliff, didnt know there 4th - 5th teams ground does it also. Think i may try and sneek into the slips the weekend
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Canners on July 06, 2011, 07:20:41 PM
might overtake you on the way there mate we're playing old souths this weekend
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: 19reading87 on July 06, 2011, 07:22:37 PM
Kenilworth wardens is similar....ish to this.
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 06, 2011, 07:26:50 PM
If you skittle them out for not many Canners pop over on the way through, you may even see a rare sight and see me bowling!!  >:( ok, maybe not. might go and do the sarf'end circuit on the seafront
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Byo on July 07, 2011, 07:40:16 AM
Got the same situation myself this weekend - both pitches share the same boundary!!!  Luckily I have a jelly arm and dont find myself patrolling the boundary that often  :D
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Simmy on July 07, 2011, 07:42:37 AM
as if you can play like that wtf?
id just refuse to play absolute joke!

i get mad enough when playing for nicks team when we have no upmires lol

propa village
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: 12man on July 07, 2011, 07:46:17 AM
Kenilworth wardens is similar....ish to this.

Similar but dont overlap
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: uknsaunders on July 07, 2011, 08:40:58 AM
for the slow people here, are you saying that the boundaries meet or actually overlap ie. you are standing on another teams pitch and they are fielding on yours?
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Simmy on July 07, 2011, 08:41:58 AM
nick by the looks of things the boundraie on the right pitch is practically on the square!! of the other so they over lap lol
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: johan95 on July 07, 2011, 10:24:30 AM
nick by the looks of things the boundraie on the right pitch is practically on the square!! of the other so they over lap lol

Yes that's right. What he is saying is that where he could be standing is deep square leg on his pitch and short point on the other pitch. On the same token deep cover on the left square pitch is short point on the pitch Burdy is playing on.
Never seen that before, we've had shared boundaries but never overlapping boundaries. Odd.
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Red Ink Cricket on July 07, 2011, 10:28:15 AM
 i played a handful of games in perth WA where the boundaries would overlap by 5-10m or so. we were always told to field on your side of the other teams boundary. never seen something so close before. must play havoc
takes me back to being a kid! ' can we have our ball back please'
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: ajm90 on July 07, 2011, 09:57:45 PM
Must be one of the only pitches where it's safer to field at silly point than mid wicket  :)
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: ianbuchanan on July 07, 2011, 10:03:26 PM
I wouldn't play on a ground like that! Imagine seeing players from another game standing at cover facing the other way!
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: uknsaunders on July 07, 2011, 10:14:20 PM
how can it be safe to field with your back to another games batsman?
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: tim2000s on July 08, 2011, 09:01:34 AM
Surely it's fantastic if both teams don't have enough players? Then you can have one guy covering the area for both teams!
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 08, 2011, 08:51:49 PM
i won't be playing at this ground now as i have been called up to the 1's. Was looking foward to playing 2's as i am in need of some batting time as i have been out of action for a while, but i am not complaining. i get to play against Canners mate again, see if I can do him a nice turn and get him some bragging rights.
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Canners on July 10, 2011, 05:51:46 AM
i won't be playing at this ground now as i have been called up to the 1's. Was looking foward to playing 2's as i am in need of some batting time as i have been out of action for a while, but i am not complaining. i get to play against Canners mate again, see if I can do him a nice turn and get him some bragging rights.

burdy

you let me down...... what happened?
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 10, 2011, 12:43:49 PM
Not only let u down, let ourselves down. We bowled well, but fielded and batted like a village team. Jason and bip batted well. Was an incident that happened in their batting that changed the whole game in their favour, they bucked their ideas up and we thought the game was ours.
I got cleaned out for 4 only facing 2 balls with a peach of a delivery.
Again, umpiring was interesting in regards to lbw's and caught behinds.
Another great day in the league! Lol
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Canners on July 10, 2011, 12:49:51 PM
we had an eevn worse batting performance...

one of our bowlers bowled out of his skin to achive figures of 9-70, we couldnt chase down a target of 160 whish was really frustrating...

what was this incident?
Title: Re: Wish me luck
Post by: Burdy on July 10, 2011, 01:01:22 PM
Will send u a pm