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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Howzat on December 23, 2011, 02:26:33 PM
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What's the most "Village" moment you've seen at your club?
Last year we somehow ended up playing premier league Brondsbury in a sunday Chess Valley League game the day after they beat Ealing who hadn't lost a game for about 4 years.
I lasted 3 balls against their opening bowler (all short at my ribs). No word of a lie the number three was a quivering wreck in changing room was wearing 2 long sleeve jumpers for protection and had shoved a thigh pad inside his jumper as an arm guard... goes out to the middle, plays and misses at 3 balls then walks off with bat under his arm going "I knicked it didnt I, i always walk if I edge it"
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really? what team does your no3 play in on sat?
This happened last year, quite similar to the ind v eng test match.
One of our opening batsman thought he had hit a boundary, and as the fielder jogged to retrieve the ball, the 2 batsman decided to have a talk in the middle of the wicket. The bolwer threw the ball to the bowler and he ran out one of our batsman.
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We had a thing that was very similar to the Bell incident. One of our batsmen smashed the ball through cover and the umpire signalled 4 before it had gone over the rope, and their fielder managed to collect it before it crossed the rope. But the batsmen, seeing the umpires signal of 4 were talking in the middle of the pitch, and their player ran one of them out. He refused to go because he said the ball was dead because of the umpires signalling of 4. After a long argument, we resorted to someone looking up the MCC laws on their iPhone and it was given as 4 runs.
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my club's most village moment was 2011. All season.
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We had 12 players one game last year and skipper did not realise till 5 mins before game after warm up
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really? what team does your no3 play in on sat?
This happened last year, quite similar to the ind v eng test match.
One of our opening batsman thought he had hit a boundary, and as the fielder jogged to retrieve the ball, the 2 batsman decided to have a talk in the middle of the wicket. The bolwer threw the ball to the bowler and he ran out one of our batsman.
4th team haha but he got called up late... I play in the 2's and I was scared facing him!
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We had 12 for a midweek game once as well.
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We turned up to a 3rd XI fixture which, according to our club fixture handbook was 'away'. When we looked in the league handbook we were supposed to be playing at home......good job the two grounds were only 10mins away from each other!
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We played on a League game on a Sunday once, we turned up at the away ground and they turned up at ours!
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What's the most "Village" moment you've seen at your club?
Last year we somehow ended up playing premier league Brondsbury in a sunday Chess Valley League game the day after they beat Ealing who hadn't lost a game for about 4 years.
I lasted 3 balls against their opening bowler (all short at my ribs). No word of a lie the number three was a quivering wreck in changing room was wearing 2 long sleeve jumpers for protection and had shoved a thigh pad inside his jumper as an arm guard... goes out to the middle, plays and misses at 3 balls then walks off with bat under his arm going "I knicked it didnt I, i always walk if I edge it"
This makes your whole team sound village Haha!!
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We played on a League game on a Sunday once, we turned up at the away ground and they turned up at ours!
That sounds like parry
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Leo was that Byron Vermaak?
The most village moment I've seen was playing against Acton 3s for my club's 3s on a Saturday. Their number 9 was giving it a whack, and missed one off our toilet leg spinner. He sort of wandered out of his crease overbalancing a while after, and our keeper naturally took the bails off.
Square leg (their player) gave it out, but the standing umpire (also their player) proceeded to start arguing about it - eventually the guy was given out. Don't know why he went for a walk but that was pretty village. :D
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Yeah! Haha how did you know Johan? He looks like a beast!
Heres the scorecard... for some reason it has all the wrong names in it and I've gone down as "Malkeet Dhaliwal" which is annoying as I also clean bowled Will Vanderspar this game haha ???
http://uxbridge.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11215595
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I've spent too long looking at the Prem Scorecards lol! :-[
I remembered your Sunday League is a good standard so they must have had a sharp opening bowler bowling. What pace is he at, late 70s/early 80s I presume..
Not suprised - it's funny how a bowler's mind works though. He knows it's a Sunday so bowls bouncers to scare the batsmen shitless (at least your No 3..) - pretty funny.
Did he bowl many fuller balls that day?
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Haha well the first two balls were both short in at my ribs, I guessed the third would be an attempted yorker but he just banged it in again and I was set on the front foot and couldn't get out the way haha. Yeah he was fairly sharp although not quite as quick as Reading CC's opening bowlers in the national this year!
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We had 12 players one game last year and skipper did not realise till 5 mins before game after warm up
Nah can top that - a Uni first XI game at Chester in 96 and they got through 40 overs in the field before we spotted that they had twelve men on there!
Same game, one of their lads chose to call our skipper something that might be getting John Terry in trouble. Skipper came in off the fullest run I've ever seen and bowled near enough the speed of light - the lad, who was batting three, took the first on the lid, second on the breast and then threw his bat down and walked off! :D
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My first game at York Uni was for the 2nd team away at hull. We lost but I got 5 wickets, 5 catches and a golden duck on debut (mixed bag but a trend for my entire Uni career).
The village moment involved our skipper turning up worse for wear after a heavy night out and following through on a fart when he was waiting to bat. He sort of went pale then had to run off to find a loo. Ended up batting with less than clean whites.
What made it worse was the hull women's cricket team was on the sidelines with us and saw it all. Then about 5 weeks later we wondered why a load if girls were laughing near us at a home game and realised it was the same hull women's team and they'd recognised our skipper.
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Hahaha thats quality... I didnt even make the uni squad at Brunel lol
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We were playing a sunday friendly and only ended up with 10 players. The 1st team game got rained off and when they arrived back one of them volunteered to play for us, he we was also next man in. He didn't have long to get changed by the time he arrived and then the wicket fell, so the number 3, who was still padded up went out to bat again.
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i retrieved a ball which had been hit for four and tried to underarm it to someone on the infield... i held on a fraction too long and instead of the throw going to my teammate it went straight over my shoulder, over the fence behind me and in to a bunch of trees!
felt like a massive r-tard
new balls please
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my club's most village moment was 2011. All season.
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Hahaha thats quality... I didnt even make the uni squad at Brunel lol
Did you try? I thought you said a mate of yours who played in a lower team was in the 1s lol?
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Yeah he is haha and yeah I did, just not in favour with the powers that be I guess
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Hahaha thats quality... I didnt even make the uni squad at Brunel lol
how the feck did you manage that?
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My first game at York Uni was for the 2nd team away at hull. We lost but I got 5 wickets, 5 catches and a golden duck on debut (mixed bag but a trend for my entire Uni career).
The village moment involved our skipper turning up worse for wear after a heavy night out and following through on a fart when he was waiting to bat. He sort of went pale then had to run off to find a loo. Ended up batting with less than clean whites.
What made it worse was the hull women's cricket team was on the sidelines with us and saw it all. Then about 5 weeks later we wondered why a load if girls were laughing near us at a home game and realised it was the same hull women's team and they'd recognised our skipper.
How long ago? Didn't know we HAD a womens team!
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How long ago? Didn't know we HAD a womens team!
Quite a while ago, my first year at York was back in 96 so this would have been summer of 97. We were playing on a ground a few minutes walk from the Uni and away from any toilets. Think there were some tennis courts or something on the leg side as I remember thinking I'd smack the bowler into them first ball and it didn't quite turn out as I hoped.
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Quite a while ago, my first year at York was back in 96. We were playing on a ground a few minutes walk from the Uni and away from any toilets. Think there were some tennis courts or something on the leg side as I remember thinking I'd smack the bowler into them first ball and it didn't quite turn out as I hoped.
you play in the "Roses" matches at all?
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you play in the "Roses" matches at all?
Yep, I played in the 2nd team roses three times. 97 at York, 98 at Lancaster and then 99 at York again. Think they followed the usual pattern and the home team won each time.
I think I got a few wickets each time, I also remember being involved in a bowl off indoors in a BUSA game one year indoors at Lancaster which we lost.
Did you play in the roses games?
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Yep, I played in the 2nd team roses three times. 97 at York, 98 at Lancaster and then 99 at York again. Think they followed the usual pattern and the home team won each time.
I think I got a few wickets each time, I also remember being involved in a bowl off indoors in a BUSA game one year indoors at Lancaster which we lost.
Did you play in the roses games?
2nd Team 96, 1st Team 97. 98 was the year I did my knee ligaments and I spent most of it doing the radio stations outside broadcast
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2nd Team 96, 1st Team 97. 98 was the year I did my knee ligaments and I spent most of it doing the radio stations outside broadcast
Doesn't sound like we'd have played against each other. Roses games were great and the weekend altogether was a good laugh, I did a 4 year masters and I was gutted to have to miss roses in the last year due to glandular fever.
One of your other posts mentions you were in the lancs league as a junior. Where did you used to play? I was in the lancs league juniors til age 15 with Darwen.
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Doesn't sound like we'd have played against each other. Roses games were great and the weekend altogether was a good laugh, I did a 4 year masters and I was gutted to have to miss roses in the last year due to glandular fever.
One of your other posts mentions you were in the lancs league as a junior. Where did you used to play? I was in the lancs league juniors til age 15 with Darwen.
The weekends were great - though most of the stories would not be ones I could repeat here. You slightly misread my earlier post (not helped by my missing an s on the end of leagues!) - I played for Lancaster in the Northern League in 1996 and 97; my junior cricket was all in Yorkshire.
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Yeah! Haha how did you know Johan? He looks like a beast!
Heres the scorecard... for some reason it has all the wrong names in it and I've gone down as "Malkeet Dhaliwal" which is annoying as I also clean bowled Will Vanderspar this game haha ???
[url]http://uxbridge.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11215595[/url]
Bet Tally would of been shitting him self!
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Going back to most village moment I would like to nominate my clubs now 2nd team skipper buying 22prepack sandwiches from the local garage as teas :(
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I know its pro stuff but I can't help but laugh when I see this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aITM1rQxjLQ
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Going back to most village moment I would like to nominate my clubs now 2nd team skipper buying 22prepack sandwiches from the local garage as teas :(
Sounds like a bit of a hero to me. We were struggling for a tea lady (she was away on holiday) before the Mrs and sister in law stepped in because I suggested ordering a few pizzas
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Most village thing Ive seen in all cricket- a village umpire who called wide after the batsman had played a cut shot for four... He then followed his decision by calling 'over', after calling the previous ball a wide!
Most village thing in the league- A WEPL (west of england premier league) umpire who signalled 'byes' after the ball had ballooned of the batsmans pad and looped over the keepers head...
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Most village thing I've seen? Umpire calling one short on a single..
Yeah, work that one out.
You do see the wide then over given a few times actually.
Also getting out in the 7th ball of an over. Happened to 2 of our blokes this year.
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Didn't technically see this one, but heard about it from our Third XI a couple of years back - batsman kicks the ball away off middle stump, and his team mate gives him out. He walks down the wicket aggresively, shouting "It can't be LBW you idiot, I didn't play a shot!"
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Most village moment, player wearing chino's in the field and batting, enough said
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A bloke took a diving 1 handed catch twice against us, I was one of the victims and he was wearing a white vest......!!!!!!!
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Red trainers, blue tracksuit bottoms and a long sleeved white under top with nothing over it. Enough said!
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Bloke came on in shorts and flip flops because someone had to go home and caught me out at slip with a one handed catch above his head off an off spinner. Annoyed wasn't the word!
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having no umpires when i play for nicks team is very village and annoying
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Bloke came on in shorts and flip flops because someone had to go home and caught me out at slip with a one handed catch above his head off an off spinner. Annoyed wasn't the word!
hehe happens some times - iended up the last man for a mates team last year, was not supposed to be playing as had domestic commitments, just turned up to watch and batted ten...oppo were gutted when 66-8 became 202-9 at the end of 40!
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We played a team with about 5 of the players wearing hoodies lol :D
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Your kidding me Johan! That's funny lol, hope you won :p
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hehe happens some times - iended up the last man for a mates team last year, was not supposed to be playing as had domestic commitments, just turned up to watch and batted ten...oppo were gutted when 66-8 became 202-9 at the end of 40!
Yeah, got asked to play for a mate's team in a Sunday friendly as they were short of bowlers. After removing the top 3 batsmen for 3 runs in the first three overs I bowled I got taken off and they were all out for 40 odd...
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Not really village but going down the 'Ringer' route, my club dont have a great youth set-up so were short for the u15s most weeks, and last season if i was born one day later i would of been an u15 instead of an u16 so occasionally i would be dragged into playing for them and in the first game i got 77 off 35-40 balls including 14 4s and bowled 3 overs for 2 runs and the second game i played i got 68 off 40-45 balls and bowled 4 overs for 5 runs 1 wicket and i broke a kids nose cut his head open and broke his helmet all in one ball (i didnt feel as bad as he was my ages aswell), i was never asked to play again.
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Your kidding me Johan! That's funny lol, hope you won :p
Nope we have played some dreadfully turned out teams lol! It was a draw. One of the hoodie guys had a good eye and smashed a century until a sharp stumping from none other than myself removed him..
It genuinely was a good stumping ;) - I usually try to make a wreck of the stumps for the imaginary cameras though :D
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Another village moment I had was when I played for a team in Bristol in a friendly, in the 40th over batting first, I was poised on 103*, and one of the opposition fielders decided to field at what can only be described as Silly Point.... Cue the short wide long-hop and then the ambulance and trip to hospital for concussion.....
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I usually try to make a wreck of the stumps for the imaginary cameras though :D
tut all about the one bail flick
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Another village moment I had was when I played for a team in Bristol in a friendly, in the 40th over batting first, I was poised on 103*, and one of the opposition fielders decided to field at what can only be described as Silly Point.... Cue the short wide long-hop and then the ambulance and trip to hospital for concussion.....
Haha, I once swept powerfully and instead of being caught by the man at square leg he broke his wrist!
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Haha, I once swept powerfully and instead of being caught by the man at square leg he broke his wrist!
Haha! Got to love being dropped, and when the fielder injurs themselves in the process it's just a bonus! :D
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tut all about the one bail flick
Classy and precise, enjoyable Simmy!
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Reminds me of a Uni game where I middled one straight back at the bowler who was one of these Jimmy Anderson types who look down as they bowl - he didn't see it and it smashed him clean on the jaw!
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When I was playing U-16's an opposition fielder threw the ball into the keeper, it flicked up off the edge of the astro-turf and straight into his eye. Massive black eye! He now plays for our team!
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When I was playing U-16's an opposition fielder threw the ball into the keeper, it flicked up off the edge of the astro-turf and straight into his eye. Massive black eye! He now plays for our team!
Thats just unlucky! not so much village!
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few years back we had our Second XI spinner airlifted out of a game at Henley after breaking his collarbone...
...thing is, he was after a game the following week!
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tut all about the one bail flick
I'll work on it ;)
I broke 2 of a guy's fingers a couple of years ago, smashed the ball down the ground and he stupidly tried to stop it.. :(
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I went to see our club U13 playing, and a bowler bowls the ball (remember it's a junior) and it goes straight through middle and leg stump. I was umpiring, and we checked afterwards and the senior stumps allowed a millimetre of space either side. A millimetre to the left or right would of bowled, but no.
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played with a west indian by the name of Reon King a few years during a cricket week game against my own club, was a pretty green track and i'd been at the bottom of the beer barrel for most of the week (even sleeping in the changing rooms) and a young lad from the club came out at 3 or 4 wearing a Surrey Lid to which Reon picked up the challenge. i was at 1st slip, after the first all fired into the lads ribs an the second clattered into the keepers gloves with the sound of thunder, i placed myself a good 5 or 6 yards behind where the keeper was standing and pretty much directly behind him, there was no way anything was going to be testing my hands that day, the only person who noticed was second slip, who wanted to swap places
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I was batting last year, when the player fielding at Cover started arguing with the Captain, claiming he should be put on to bowl. Well the Captain who was standing at slip, was having none of it! and he firmly told (in good old rural oxfordshire) the player "he was the Captain, he picks who bowl and when".
The fielder at Cover then folded his arms, pushed his bottom lip out and started kicking at the ground. Three balls later the arms were still crossed when I pushed the ball to his left. The ball ran passed him and gently down the slope towards the club house. The sulking player made no attempt to stop the ball, he just looked at the captain and smiled. He then turned and slowly ran after the now stationary ball, by the time he had reached the ball which was about 10 yards from the boundary edge, we were on our third run. In stead of picking the ball up and returning it to the keeper, the unhappy player transformed himself into Ronaldo and dribbled the ball towards the club house and the boundary. Stopping the ball a yard short of the rope he stopped turned toward the Captain and stuck two fingers up. He then toe punted the ball through the open door of the club house and he walked off the pitch and into the club house.
Minutes later the player emerged from the club house dragging his kit bag, and headed towards the car park. Stopping in his tracks, a look of horror came over the player as he realised, first he had not driven his car the 25 miles to the game and second he had given a lift by the now not so happy Captain.
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Brilliant!!!
Which team was that? Just wonder if I know them!! :D
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We have a winner!
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pretty sure noone is beating that.
question is, does the eight count to your average?
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Pete PM'ed you
By the time he had dribbled the ball to the rope we had run five, but only got the four.
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Pete PM'ed you
By the time he had dribbled the ball to the rope we had run five, but only got the four.
you should have got nine!
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you should have got nine!
Exactly, should have been 9. Also, if they didn't give the 9, you still get the higher amount when that happens, as just say you need 5 off the last ball, and you run the 5 (would have to be a massive field), but then the fielder deliberately kicks it over for a 4, that would be unfair to the batting team.
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It went in the book as a four,
I was also at a game in Chalgrove, which has a small stream running around the boundary, My team were fielding when the ball was hit into the stream. One of our better players went in after it. He then fell over and disappeared out of sight. After calls for help the player was found on this lying on his back in 3 inches of water. He was unable to move after twisting his knee, he had to be lifted out of the stream and carried off the pitch, then driven in his wet muddy cricket kit to the JR hospital A&E.
Sadly he had to have the knee operated on and he missed the rest of the season, but it was quite difficult not to laugh at the time
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I was batting last year, when the player fielding at Cover started arguing with the Captain, claiming he should be put on to bowl. Well the Captain who was standing at slip, was having none of it! and he firmly told (in good old rural oxfordshire) the player "he was the Captain, he picks who bowl and when".
The fielder at Cover then folded his arms, pushed his bottom lip out and started kicking at the ground. Three balls later the arms were still crossed when I pushed the ball to his left. The ball ran passed him and gently down the slope towards the club house. The sulking player made no attempt to stop the ball, he just looked at the captain and smiled. He then turned and slowly ran after the now stationary ball, by the time he had reached the ball which was about 10 yards from the boundary edge, we were on our third run. In stead of picking the ball up and returning it to the keeper, the unhappy player transformed himself into Ronaldo and dribbled the ball towards the club house and the boundary. Stopping the ball a yard short of the rope he stopped turned toward the Captain and stuck two fingers up. He then toe punted the ball through the open door of the club house and he walked off the pitch and into the club house.
Minutes later the player emerged from the club house dragging his kit bag, and headed towards the car park. Stopping in his tracks, a look of horror came over the player as he realised, first he had not driven his car the 25 miles to the game and second he had given a lift by the now not so happy Captain.
Brilliant! Made me laugh out loud in an otherwise quiet office!
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In an Under 18's game for Dorchester season just gone, their captain opened the batting for them, to which third ball of the innings he hit in the air to point, I was fielding there took 1 handed catch above my head.
To which he walked off the ground swearing and throwing his bat.
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To which he walked off the ground swearing and throwing his bat.
I can't imagine anyone on here doing something like that.
oh.
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During a match for my previous club a 1 on 1 fight nearly broke out after the batsmen told one of our fielders the score of the British Lions Rugby that had been on early that morning. Little did he know that the said fielder had recorded the match on Sky Plus planning to watch it later that evening and had gone out of his way to avoid knowing the score - not answering his phone or having radios or tvs on all morning etc.
There was a threat of violence and a threat of 'calling the cops' but luckily it went no further than the pair of them shouting and swearing at each other for a while. Needless to say our whole fielding side were pi**ing themselves with laughter as we all knew the lengths that our guy had gone to to avoid knowing the score! We let it go on for a couple of overs before putting him out for a boundary stint to cool off!
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In an Under 18's game for Dorchester season just gone, their captain opened the batting for them, to which third ball of the innings he hit in the air to point, I was fielding there took 1 handed catch above my head.
To which he walked off the ground swearing and throwing his bat.
Leggy man! Had no idea you were a member on here, there I was trying to flog you some gloves a few days ago!
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Joined a new team late last year, and I'm sure the 'tactic' of (genuinley) misfielding thus causing the oppo to run a second before being run out, became a legitimate and used method.
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I can't imagine anyone on here doing something like that.
oh.
i threw my h4l across the changing room into the wall!
put a nice dent in the back :(
lucky for me matt sorted it at end of year clean up he did for me :D
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I once kicked my helmet from the field as a kid, I was seriously reprimanded by my Chairman as it was not part of cricket, So I have never damaged my equipment since, I often swear and talk to myself if I feel I have let myself down,
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I once kicked my helmet from the field as a kid, I was seriously reprimanded by my Chairman as it was not part of cricket, So I have never damaged my equipment since, I often swear and talk to myself if I feel I have let myself down,
quite right - when I was a kid I tore a muscle in my back throwing my bat. Never again! :o
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Being left stranded on 97* when a guy who had been roped in to play for us at the last minute inside edges a ball for 4, winning the game. He was wearing jeans, no shoes (he only had black leather ones, which would have killed the pitch) and a shirt and tie. Devastated.
Also playing as a 15 year old for my old senior team, the captian gave me a lift to the match and decided to drive 30 miles in the wrong direction. we got to the game 20 mins late, by which time we were 20 odd for 4. I wen in at 28-6, our captain having gone first ball.
One of their bowlers had got all 6 wickets, and i'd been warned that he was unbelievebly fast etc etc, so i wore a helmet for the first time ever. I scratched about and made a couple before facing my first delivery from the much lauded bowler, a fairly quick wide. He then was noisily sick just off the pitch, to much laughter. It turned out that the day before had been his 30th birthday, and he had only stopped drinking about 30 mins before the start of play.
He smashed middle stump out of the ground 2 balls later, we ended up 37 all out and the drunk bowler with figures of 9-16.
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Saw a bloke drop kick his helmet into a brick wall that was odd.
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Well I have a couple.
Last game of the season dropping the teams number 7, 5 times while is was on his way to a 197.
Getting all out twice in the season for under 50. And playing most games with 8 people.
Safe to say it wasnt a great season.
Oh and not to forget me dropping a catch so it hit the jewels
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Well I have a couple.
Last game of the season dropping the teams number 7, 5 times while is was on his way to a 197.
Getting all out twice in the season for under 50. And playing most games with 8 people.
Safe to say it wasnt a great season.
Oh and not to forget me dropping a catch so it hit the jewels
Bowled out for under 50 isn't bad. We played the so called best team in our area, however we bowled them out for 24. Bearing in mind this was in the final of a tournament in the West of Dorset for the Under 18's.
Here's the scorecard if anyone wants to take a look -
http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11352933
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Skittled for 24 is shocking, I mean thats not even 3 runs per batsmen!
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I know! Played on probably the best pitch in the West of Dorset. So they can't use that excuse. I tucked in for a 50 not out and 5-8 off 3! :)
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I did see mate ;)
Good little game for you then!
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Good tournament for me! Scores of 27, 70(the fact they had players take the gloat away), 79, and then 56 not out in the final :D
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Love playing at your place. Covered pitch and great teas.
What more do you want?!?
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Skittled for 24 is shocking, I mean thats not even 3 runs per batsmen!
My old clubs third team were all out for 7 once. They only had 8 players and 4 had never played cricket in there life. and to make it worse the second team were all out for 14 on the same day! One batsmen scored 9 runs and the rest made 5! The captain thought it would be a good idea for everyone to sign the match ball and keep it in the clubs trophy cabinet.
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Love playing at your place. Covered pitch and great teas.
What more do you want?!?
Pitch is lovely, as a batsmen. Not a fan of bowling on it!
You think our tea's are good, come play a game of proper village cricket, where the tea's are apparently the best in dorset ;)
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Skittled for 24 is shocking, I mean thats not even 3 runs per batsmen!
http://hillingdonmanor.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11295627
This one was...well, suffice to say we were seriously looking for 0 all out when their bat aimed a swipe through square leg that raced through cover...
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Captains innings that 5*
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Captains innings that 5*
Considering he had to interrupt it to take regular rollockings over the phone from their chairman in Bolivia, it wasn't bad.
To be fair, it was a used pitch in a dry spell and was ragging square by that stage. What was funny though was the comment "well, we gave you such a good game last year" as they walked off...
http://hillingdonmanor.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11082585
Most of the bowlers were, erm, kids and the lad who got fivefer didn't even make the first choice attack in our Under 15s that year...
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Playing a freindly on a sunday afternoon last year. Captain returned from toss and informed us he had lost and we were fielding. So everyone put on their bowling spikes, wicket keeper got padded up and made our way to the middle. when we got out there met by the opposition team and captain who imformed us "No your batting!" :-[ :-[
VILLAGE!!
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Bowled out for under 50 isn't bad. We played the so called best team in our area, however we bowled them out for 24. Bearing in mind this was in the final of a tournament in the West of Dorset for the Under 18's.
Here's the scorecard if anyone wants to take a look -
[url]http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11352933[/url]
Mate, that Weymouth team is weak. Bridport could of out out a better under 18 team last year!
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Mate, that Weymouth team is weak. Bridport could of out out a better under 18 team last year!
They were the so called best team out of the lot!
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Got to say that under 50 was just so I didnt have to say 37 and 42 all out. I think I added a couple of runs to that....
A good moment was seeing a left handed slogger on my team playing a pull shot on his first ball and in the same swing og the bat hitting his pads and shouting Sllaag....yep he was caught.
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The most village moment I have seen was my good friend was bowling rather well with an Umpire who isn't our best friend at times. After many turned down lbw apeals my friend decided to whip off his shirt and throw it at the umpire.
Safe to say the umpire and the leauge were not too impressed with the situation and it was total VILLAGE behaviour.
(But quite funny at the time)
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Not seen a post on this for a while and I'm sure there are more to add.
But had one game this season where a lot of people pulled out leaving a lot of the juniors filling in. This lead to them shouting "(insert county name) standards" between every ball, when throwing it to each other etc.
Also included the shout of "into the tail now lads" after taking the second wicket.
Safe to say we lost that match before we got into the tail
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Our outfield isn't the truest of surfaces, and it isn't unknown for the ball to suddenly hop over a fielder's shoulder even when he's done everything right and got everything behind it. This happened at the weekend to an opposition fielder, who then threw his cap down, kicked it several times then stamped on it - erm, it was an adult game too, not under 13s!
Another nomination for a village moment came back in the days when I played more regularly. One of the opposition fancied himself as a quick bowler, coming in off a long run before not quite managing medium pace. He had a lot to say for himself too, and loudly berated the fielders for not stopping some very hard hit shots. The show stopper was when his trousers fell down just before his delivery stride.
'Someone give me a belt!' He shouted. His long suffering skipper shouted back: 'Those two b****rs in the middle have been giving you belts ever since you came on - how many do you need?'
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Well not really a village moment, more of a village few hours, on sunday where we turned up to the oppositions ground half hour before the supposed start time where they had one team member there and we had to wait for a key to be sent down to get in, an hour rolls past and still no key.
The key finally turns up after all their team had turned up another 20 minutes later, skippers go out for a toss, our skipper comes back saying the home team were really weak and chose to bat because they wanted to watch the boxing later in the day. Fair to say we rolled them over quite easily. A plus point was their naan bread curry wrap teas :)
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Infact that reminded me of one a couple of weeks ago on the same lines. With the start of Aug we start and hour earlier. Met at the club and then drove about 40mins away to the opposing team. To which they had one player there doing some catch-it practice and the gates locked. We phoned there captain, he forgot sent and emergency text to the team to get there early.
He arrives opens the changing room to which one of our chaps realises he forgot his whites. Meaning his dad (opening bat) has to go and get them.
We lose the toss and get put into bat....now they have to wait for us.
Played a different day and one of our lads had to borrow white of the opposition.
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not village, but very bizarre...Played a team in North London, and the wicket keeper clearly took things v seriously, and well, kept shouting at himself every ball that he didn't catch cleanly, and kept shouting "CAN'T EVEN CATCH THAT YOU RETARD" at himself!
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Dan, along similar lines - can't remember the guy's name, but there was a bloke in the league I used to play in who was notorious for providing his own running commentary.
...'And he comes in and bowls. - And that's too short and wide from John...' etc.
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Now I want to do that this afternoon! :)
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Whilst batting this season, a guy in the slips thought he was brain badonde off facejacker! Funniest game ever, he had the perfect accent and everything, it was incredible.
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Dan, along similar lines - can't remember the guy's name, but there was a bloke in the league I used to play in who was notorious for providing his own running commentary.
...'And he comes in and bowls. - And that's too short and wide from John...' etc.
Theres a guy in our midweek league who is constantly shouting and giving a running commentry, supposed to be playing him this evening if the rain clears. It's not too much like 'commentry' though, more so putting you off and want to smack him
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We Play the times league rules so if you do not bowl the oppo out in your allotted time in the 2nd Inns the match is deemed as a draw. Were playing the worst team in the league and had them 9 down with 8 overs still to go. Their batsman woudln't offer a shot to anything which was missing the sticks..
Unforutnately for us, the batting team supplies their own umpire (player) and things got really out of hand.. After about 18 LBW shouts in 4 overs, it was getting ridiculous that we weren't gonna get a wicket... We gave the Ump a bit of stick for not giving clear shouts out, So the umpire took off his jacket, Slammed it at our bowler and Swore.. After walking off a few steps came back to kick the stumps out of the ground.. :o -- Once he was escorted off - The next umpire gave us the wicket!
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Joined a new team late last year, and I'm sure the 'tactic' of (genuinley) misfielding thus causing the oppo to run a second before being run out, became a legitimate and used method.
....Say what you want Dan but it works mate ;)
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....Say what you want Dan but it works mate ;)
Big Momma our secret fielding weapon!
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Sledging a guy on 160+ and then sledging a guy for playing an attacking shot to a good ball when 300-3. Not our opening bowlers finest hour!
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Team we played last weekend has an umpire who didn't seem to know the rules. Kept coming up to our ump every few overs asking questions, however the best bit was when he tried to call one short for the batsmen not completing a run when they stopped midway as the ball went for 4!
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Perhaps village - perhaps not. But just some random moments that make cricket such an interesting and entertaining game.
Turning and firing the ball at the stumps in one movement because in your peripheral vision you've seen a man backing up behind the stumps. Then the incredible feeling of relief when you hit the sticks, as you have realised too late that the man backing up was actually the umpire!
Seeing a first team bowler thrashed a long, long, way out of the nets. He doesn't go to retrieve the ball but stalks straight back to the pavilion to get changed.
Getting padded up in the changing room as a team mate returns after getting his third first baller in as many innings. Studiously avoiding eye contact, you hear the crash of his bat against the wall, then the slam of the toilet door...then sobbing...
A team mate running around the boundary to attempt a catch has his eyes fixed on the descending ball. He loses his footing and sprawls forward. The ball hits him on the back of the head and bounces over the rope for six. Fortunately only his pride is seriously dented.
The opposition are delighted to find plenty of parking spaces a short walk from the pavilion, the home players graciously taking a longer walk to the facilities. Two broken wing mirrors and a smashed tail light later, they are less impressed by the generosity of the gesture.
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Steve Kirby retrieving the ball from a forward defensive shot, firing it at the stumps, missing by yards, and sending Jos Buttler sprawling to try and stop it. Buttler can't get close and the ball flies away for 4 overthrows!
Maybe not village, but the funniest happened to me tonight. In the nets with the bowling machine firing 80 mph yorkers. Bat misses the ball, hits the bottom bar of the net and goes into orbit. Hits one roof about 40 yards behind the nets ricochets into another and lands in the road. Hilarious!
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Steve Kirby retrieving the ball from a forward defensive shot, firing it at the stumps, missing by yards, and sending Jos Buttler sprawling to try and stop it. Buttler can't get close and the ball flies away for 4 overthrows!
Maybe not village, but the funniest happened to me tonight. In the nets with the bowling machine firing 80 mph yorkers. Bat misses the ball, hits the bottom bar of the net and goes into orbit. Hits one roof about 40 yards behind the nets ricochets into another and lands in the road. Hilarious!
Haha,
That was at the Hampshire, Surrey match wasn't it!
A few years ago when somebody was out they chucked their bat and it landed near one of our fielders, He then shouted " That's not how you check a bat, this is!" He picked up the bat and chucked it way over the pavilion!
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I did hear of a first class player on a bad trot storming into the dressing room - which emptied very swiftly - the guys outside then hearing the sound of furious sawing as he vented his rage on the bat that had betrayed him one time too many...
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Guy who used to play at our club is remembered to have also cut his bat in half with a saw.. And on a separate occasion, throw his bat onto a flooded flat roof!
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One fella I used to play with was a class bat, had a very lean trot and after yet another low score stormed to the rooms, snapped his bat in half and jammed each piece through the gyprock n the roof....not funny at the time!
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One of our fourth team player vented his anger at getting out by first throwing his bat at the stump, it missed and hit the opposition junior keeper. He apologised and moved towards the dressing room and then before reaching the door hurled his bat in , it missed again and hit the window and caused damage to both window and the bat. The worst part of all was that it was a borrowed bat !.
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One of our players told me of an occasion when he opened the innings, and got an absolute jaffa first ball that seriously damaged all his furniture. In bad humour he slung his bat into the corner of the dressing room, ripped off his pads and gloves, and after a few moments reflection on the injustices of life wandered back outside to watch the rest of the action. The bowler that had got him out was still bowling. 'He's bowled six consecutive wides since he got you out - he's s**t,' someone helpfully remarked.
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One of our players told me of an occasion when he opened the innings, and got an absolute jaffa first ball that seriously damaged all his furniture. In bad humour he slung his bat into the corner of the dressing room, ripped off his pads and gloves, and after a few moments reflection on the injustices of life wandered back outside to watch the rest of the action. The bowler that had got him out was still bowling. 'He's bowled six consecutive wides since he got you out - he's s**t,' someone helpfully remarked.
:D
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Had quite an "intense" player at my old club, he hated losing or people doing things badly - he set himself high standards and expected others to do the same.
He dropped quite an easy catch in a not all that important game and was so angry he took off one of his shoes and launched it towards the boundary whilst swearing a lot, the rest of us were in absolute fits of laughter as he was making his way very slowly towards the boundary to collect the errant shoe.
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Very village moment on the weekend. Their 1st slip wore a dark brown Akubra in the field.
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Same player in our club, wears what appears to be cycling shoes, often hands his track suit top to the umpire when coming on to bowl. Wears a martial arts jock strap over his white shell suit bottoms when batting.
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I was batting last year, when the player fielding at Cover started arguing with the Captain, claiming he should be put on to bowl. Well the Captain who was standing at slip, was having none of it! and he firmly told (in good old rural oxfordshire) the player "he was the Captain, he picks who bowl and when".
The fielder at Cover then folded his arms, pushed his bottom lip out and started kicking at the ground. Three balls later the arms were still crossed when I pushed the ball to his left. The ball ran passed him and gently down the slope towards the club house. The sulking player made no attempt to stop the ball, he just looked at the captain and smiled. He then turned and slowly ran after the now stationary ball, by the time he had reached the ball which was about 10 yards from the boundary edge, we were on our third run. In stead of picking the ball up and returning it to the keeper, the unhappy player transformed himself into Ronaldo and dribbled the ball towards the club house and the boundary. Stopping the ball a yard short of the rope he stopped turned toward the Captain and stuck two fingers up. He then toe punted the ball through the open door of the club house and he walked off the pitch and into the club house.
Minutes later the player emerged from the club house dragging his kit bag, and headed towards the car park. Stopping in his tracks, a look of horror came over the player as he realised, first he had not driven his car the 25 miles to the game and second he had given a lift by the now not so happy Captain.
Everyone needs to relive this
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I can remember feeling really uncomfortable and that something was wrong batting then after 5/6 balls I realised I had put my inner thigh pad on instead of my outer
I had the embarrassment of having to shout for the correct pad then changing in the middle
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Played against Tom Kohler-Cadmore last weekend who walked out to bat with his phone in his pocket and had to give it to the square leg umpire. He then nailed a beautiful straight drive for 4 first ball and then left his second ball which knocked his off peg out and had to collect his phone from square leg as he trudged off. Fair to say my team were rolling about laughing
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Played against Tom Kohler-Cadmore last weekend who walked out to bat with his phone in his pocket and had to give it to the square leg umpire. He then nailed a beautiful straight drive for 4 first ball and then left his second ball which knocked his off peg out and had to collect his phone from square leg as he trudged off. Fair to say my team were rolling about laughing
I've done that! Opened the batting with my phone still there from tea, and gave it to someone to take into the changing rooms, luckily I lasted two balls so my phone hadn't even made it as far as the changing rooms before I was out!
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No. 11 didnt have a grip on his bat. But at the end of the game I put one on for him free of charge. The 'I only bat 3 times a season' doesn't wash with me and I think makes for a friendly game.
He was happy. I was happier
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Played against Tom Kohler-Cadmore last weekend who walked out to bat with his phone in his pocket and had to give it to the square leg umpire. He then nailed a beautiful straight drive for 4 first ball and then left his second ball which knocked his off peg out and had to collect his phone from square leg as he trudged off. Fair to say my team were rolling about laughing
And to think this was someone who'd had a bat named after him!
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Umpiring LMS last week. Guy got to the middle and i asked if he'd forgotten anything. He realised he didn't have his gloves, thigh pad nor box. On his return i made it clear i didn't know his box had been missing...
Also looked over to our square leg fielding last weekend and he had a crafty fag on the go!
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Had a guy in our team yesterday, not a cricketer by any stretch of the imagination he just turns up and is happy to be field and have a laugh, hit the ball to square leg and dropped his bat straight onto the stumps thinking you could drop the bat to run 😂
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Saw a player given out Lbw he sulks off and for rest of his teams innings walks around the boundry about 20 tomes shouting how was that umpire to every ball.
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Had a guy in our team yesterday, not a cricketer by any stretch of the imagination he just turns up and is happy to be field and have a laugh, hit the ball to square leg and dropped his bat straight onto the stumps thinking you could drop the bat to run 😂
I'd be surprised if that was beaten!
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Had a guy in our team yesterday, not a cricketer by any stretch of the imagination he just turns up and is happy to be field and have a laugh, hit the ball to square leg and dropped his bat straight onto the stumps thinking you could drop the bat to run 😂
In fairness to him, his theory is solid.
He just didn't execute it very well!
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Also looked over to our square leg fielding last weekend and he had a crafty fag on the go!
Our keeper will often head straight to his bag during drinks for a fag and can of strongbow choosing to bypass the juice and water. He will often still have said cigarette in his mouth after the drinks break, keeping with it still smoking away.
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Our first team captain this week lost the toss and then watched in astonishment as the opposition set about moving the boundary in by a few yards all round the ground. A word with the umpires and all was resolved!
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ShAnnon Gabriel's shot with 8 balls of the Test left....
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ShAnnon Gabriel's shot with 8 balls of the Test left....
I saw this first thing, love a bit of village at the highest level!
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We had a village moment in my team yesterday, I was actually embarrassed when it happened.
So the oppo were eight wickets down with 2 overs left, one guy had anchored the innings for 30 overs and was keeping the strike playing for the draw. Opening bowler is back on at the other end to myself and the kid batting is poor, ball goes through him and everyone else for byes but they walked one so the old head could keep the strike, so to keep the kid on strike one of our players booted the ball over the line for four thus keeping the kid on strike.
On of the older guys on our team was not happy with this, which in turn lead to him and the opening bowler having an argument - it ended with them swapping the strike back and the elder gent seeing the over out.
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If the ball had stopped and he kicked it over the rope it would have been overthrows and since they had already crossed the old guy would have been on strike anyway.
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We had a village moment in my team yesterday, I was actually embarrassed when it happened.
So the oppo were eight wickets down with 2 overs left, one guy had anchored the innings for 30 overs and was keeping the strike playing for the draw. Opening bowler is back on at the other end to myself and the kid batting is poor, ball goes through him and everyone else for byes but they walked one so the old head could keep the strike, so to keep the kid on strike one of our players booted the ball over the line for four thus keeping the kid on strike.
On of the older guys on our team was not happy with this, which in turn lead to him and the opening bowler having an argument - it ended with them swapping the strike back and the elder gent seeing the over out.
Saw the same thing happen in a test match
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Playing a week ago and a young lad was timing the ball like I haven't seen for a long time. Someone threw the stumps down and made them wobbly. The young lad then started to knock them back in to the ground with the face of his bat! He got 80 odd not out.
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Saw the same thing happen in a test match
Who, when, where?
Footage of this must exist somewhere!
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Opposition team were chasing down a reasonable score. Opening batsman was playing well on the leg side but missing on blocking on the off side. Their team captain is umpiring. Batsman sweeps for 4. Umpire (captain) shouts out 'How about playing a few shots on the the offside too?'. Next ball, he takes a big stride to the ball and inside edges onto his stumps.
Classic example of why you play to your strengths.
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one from a few years ago
Our opening bowler (16 at the time) got the opening bat (30yr old ish) LBW then proceeded to celebrate like alan shearer which annoyed the bat so he squared up to him for a fight. I stepped in between telling him politely (people know me) to just go back to which he told me "I don't want to fight you just the little kid" safe to say I escorted him off the field and had a chat with his skipper
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We had a village moment in my team yesterday, I was actually embarrassed when it happened.
So the oppo were eight wickets down with 2 overs left, one guy had anchored the innings for 30 overs and was keeping the strike playing for the draw. Opening bowler is back on at the other end to myself and the kid batting is poor, ball goes through him and everyone else for byes but they walked one so the old head could keep the strike, so to keep the kid on strike one of our players booted the ball over the line for four thus keeping the kid on strike.
On of the older guys on our team was not happy with this, which in turn lead to him and the opening bowler having an argument - it ended with them swapping the strike back and the elder gent seeing the over out.
Very similar thing Happened with us, a couple of years ago but , from my Memory there is Penalty Runs For Deliberately Kicking the ball over the boundary ?
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Cracking moment yesterday evening - playing a t18 friendly vs a beer team and we had them about 16-5 in 7 overs, and wickets kept falling on a damp. Time for some generous bowling so the game doesn't get ruined and a few of us took the job on of lobbing down some friendly stuff to get them up to a score. One lad who's new to the club and hasn't played any saturdays yet just didn't realise what was going on with the procession of blokes bowling longhops off two paces, starts going 'come on guys, stop bowling short, pitch it up! everyone chasing hard in the field!' etc etc. Poor lad, think he's quite competitive! Then he gets brought on and bowls an entire over pitching halfway down 😂
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Who, when, where?
Footage of this must exist somewhere!
Verinder Sawag 2010 v SA to get morkel on strike first time it had happened in India
Pretty sure there was an earlier one though involving england
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Their number 4 today was bowled swinging at a straight one, his bat came out of his hand and ended up being caught by our mid-on! He picked it up and said the grip was soaking wet!
(Also on the topic of village, their pitch! First ball from their spinner died in the pitch and didn't reach the stumps)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAXbO6PXkAEL9r6.jpg:large)
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What pitch ? All i see is grass and a crease line ;)
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I"m with Bumble and Boycott: the pitch is not "the wicket".
Even though this is in common usage in higher levels of the game, I somehow find it more irritating amongst club cricketers.
Anyone else with me on this?
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Two season ago in a fairly sociable end of season match with nothing to play for, the opposition batsman walks out without pads. We see notice it straight away and tell, his team-mate umpires. They say "lets see how long he takes to work it out".
Batman takes guard and asks for middle. Umpire says " yep that's middle and do you want pads?"
Batsman, umpire and our team crack up laughing.
When he comes back out we give him a guard of honour and clap him.
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I know a guy who only ever wears one pad.
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For years I played with a lad that never used to wear gloves. He claimed he could grip the bat better without - I just thought he was a tit.
The obvious quips coming from the opposition were always "target his hands - then let's see how hard he is...".
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For years I played with a lad that never used to wear gloves. He claimed he could grip the bat better without - I just thought he was a tit.
The obvious quips coming from the opposition were always "target his hands - then let's see how hard he is...".
The fact that he did it for years perhaps tells us all we need to know?
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For years I played with a lad that never used to wear gloves. He claimed he could grip the bat better without - I just thought he was a tit.
The obvious quips coming from the opposition were always "target his hands - then let's see how hard he is...".
Also played against a guy for years who never wore gloves when batting his nickname was Rocky...
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One of our guys never used to wear gloves. He used to bat with Storm Trooper Aero Pads and no gloves, he attracted some serious abuse!!
Never got hit on the hands though!
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Also played against a guy for years who never wore gloves when batting his nickname was Rocky...
Ironic, given that boxers wear gloves?
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One of our guys never used to wear gloves. He used to bat with Storm Trooper Aero Pads and no gloves, he attracted some serious abuse!!
Never got hit on the hands though!
Our bloke was never usually there long enough to risk being hit on the hands.
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Our bloke was never usually there long enough to risk being hit on the hands.
No, no was ours to be fair! Think his top score was in the 20's
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At 43 I still have the panicking dream about not being padded up when a wicket falls and I am next in.
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It took a lad 5 nets before he realised his bargain sports direct pads and gloves!!! We're left handed
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Ironic, given that boxers wear gloves?
Good one i never made thought of that.
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At 43 I still have the panicking dream about not being padded up when a wicket falls and I am next in.
I open the batting .... so why does this dream occur/ thought cross my mind ? Madness.
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I am batting and the umpire called a wide the bowler then runs down the track towards me i pick my bat up thinking he's coming at me he goes past and kicks over all three stumps complete clown.
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@Seniorplayer was the village bit you raising your bat in self defense or the bowler being a Muppet? ;)
Doesn't sound like cricket was the winner at your game with that and the crap sledging
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Our 2nds told us a great one yesterday
The umpire was signalling 4 byes, the only problem is that the ball had bowled the guy and it was fielded before it reached the boundary as well
Ump was a bit sheepish after that
I had one today (which cost me a pound in the pub)
Hit bat plumb in front I turn to appeal keep appealing ump gives it lbw then my team mates proceed to piss themselves as while I was appealing the ball had rolled onto the stumps so it bowled him
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@Seniorplayer was the village bit you raising your bat in self defense or the bowler being a Muppet? ;)
Doesn't sound like cricket was the winner at your game with that and the crap sledging
It wasn't yesterday it was a few seasons ago I picked up my bat if needed to use in self defence the village moment was him kicking the stumps over
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My son was acting as a runner for our injured no3 who was hit on the toe.
Firstly the batsman starts to hop up the pitch forgetting he has a runner.
A while later he edges to the keeper who drops it.Batsman wanders out the crease saying" wow that was lucky" as the keeper quickly takes the bails off.Doh out.
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Couple of weeks ago played a club 3s. Had 8 men no one knew who was in charge. Game delayed while they found another 3 I let them bat. The village aspect was I was bowling offies and followed the guy as he tried to make room and hit in pads ball went to mid wicket and they ran 1. Umpire gave a wide said it was going down leg side! Refused to change decision. For tea they had two rounds of sandwiches and nothing else no tea drinks etc. They offered us the food but 4 of their guys came and hoovered them up. They got 55 we got the runs in 4.2 overs.
You are prob thinking we are the big shots and they are poor little side and go easy on them they are trying their best. But they actually run 5 Saturday sides and have a 1st XI wage bill of £150k!
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How much!!
150k?
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How much!!
150k?
That seems to be the figure everyone has heard. Entire team is paid. Some are on long term contracts. Club has a wealthy benefactor. However impression people get they don't care about youth or lower sides just 1s. Unsurprisingly some nick name them the Galácticos.
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Say a first team squad of 14, getting £10k each! Nice £500 a week extra for 20 weeks of a season. Surely minor counties don't pay that
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Say a first team squad of 14, getting £10k each! Nice £500 a week extra for 20 weeks of a season. Surely minor counties don't pay that
As I've said that is the rumoured figure apparently again only rumour that one player gets 20k plus team have two overseas so that may include flight etc etc. Each overseas will be 15k. Squad players get expenses. Pay petrol money too. However other clubs spend a bit as well.
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What is even the point of paying your entire first team?!
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Talk of Bath 1XI players all being paid but lots of rumours.
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Had a humourous moment at the weekend, quite village.
Batsman jabs down on a full delivery with a thick edge. Blatantly takes it on the full, into the ground and pops up to gully. Fielder catches one handed above his head and appeals. Fielders all laugh and batsmen looks at fielder. Fielder realised what happened, sees batsman is out of his crease and throws the stumps down for a runout.
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In our evening league game last Thursday, their number 7 or 8 batsman came out to bat with his thigh pad outside his trousers.
I stopped trying after that
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Talk of Bath 1XI players all being paid but lots of rumours.
I've heard they've got a player on the payroll for in excess of 35k a season, but they legally employ them under a 'Director of Cricket' title so it's all fair regulation wise. Apparently as part of the deal he also gets use of the club facilities FOC for private coaching on the side.
Mental money, but then Bath can afford it so why not I suppose!
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I've heard they've got a player on the payroll for in excess of 35k a season, but they legally employ them under a 'Director of Cricket' title so it's all fair regulation wise. Apparently as part of the deal he also gets use of the club facilities FOC for private coaching on the side.
Mental money, but then Bath can afford it so why not I suppose!
That's Muchall who came from Frocester, does a lot of the coaching and planning for them. Not saying it justifies 35k but I wouldn't say no!!
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I am batting and the wicket keeper is up to the stumps the ball is turning and i had left a couple the bowler runs in and i hear the wicketkeeper say : get your feet moving you F***ing c*** so I spin round and say dont speak to me like that and go away (well somthing like that ) the wicket keeper gives me a look and said He was talking to himself.
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That's pretty much the definition of village. :D
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As a junior playing for the senior side - at tea asked to roll the pitch and repaint the crease lines with the other junior.
Not thinking we did the paint first then rolled....ending with white lines evenly placed up the length of the wicket.
I didn't live that down although the opening bowler liked the line on a length he could aim for.
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yesterday, one of our fielders - not noted for his athleticism - pulls off a brilliant diving stop and midwicket.
Emboldened by the applause, he stands up and pings it back at the keeper. Who was not looking at all, and after narrowly avoiding decapitation, watches in shock as the ball flies to the boundary!
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I've seen an oppo fielder arrested by the police midway through a game.
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I've seen an oppo fielder arrested by the police midway through a game.
Was he "Stealing" yards?...
I'd have loved to have seen that. "Not now officer, I'm bowling first change"
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police: is this ****** vs******** we're looking for ********.
he's down at fine leg.
teas soon if you can wait.
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i got drafted into our first team a couple of weeks back for midweek 15 over cup comp. We batted first then went out to field - after about 8 overs we were no balled for falling foul of fielding restrictions, much arguments ensured as our captain swore blind we had the right numbers in the right places, it was at this point he realised we only had 10 men. It had taken 8 overs for us to even realise it!
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I recently played in a game in which a rather elderly gentleman came out to bat without pads...
In 30 years of cricket I'd never seen this before.
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I recently played in a game in which a rather elderly gentleman came out to bat without pads...
In 30 years of cricket I'd never seen this before.
Mate of mine once went out to bat with 3 balls left with no pads on as he'd assumed he wouldn't be needed, bowler was getting it down at reasonable speed too. Couldn't believe it for the life of me when every ball to him was well outside off!
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I forgot a shirt for after the game and had to go to pub in my cricket shirt.
Proper village.
Got in at gone 2am to make it even worse
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Playing away last week, our skipper went to toss up, and came back in saying he had lost and they put us in to bat. No surprise as the wicket isnt great and looked particularly rough after the weeks weather.
Top order pad up and head out the changing room. We head out a minute later to be greeted with the opposition padded up as well!
Not sure what had happened, but it transpires they wanted to bat but our skipper either misheard or was so sure they would want to field he assumed.
Either way it worked out pretty well. Bowled them out for 68 (I picked up a nice 5 for 15) and we knocked them off for full points!
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
Just go for the one in the middle ;)
Sometimes make it easier to know which is your mark.
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
key id to turn your ankle a bit and scratch using either the very outside or inside spike ( well thats hoe i do it anyway).
but if you cant get the knack you could always just do it Windies style ( ala Chanderpaul , Pollard etc ) and use the bail and tap a notch into the turf with your bat handle ( ive always wanted to try it but never remember to ). :D
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
Don't worry, at least you marked out a guard so you looked somewhat professional. I just stroll out and go "Yeah, that looks like leg stump to me". :D
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
Was this in N. America? Where? How did the pitch play?
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Another couple of village moments.
A chap run out with his bat in one hand and the other hand trying to stop his trousers falling down.
And the captain somehow asking two players if they would umpire at square leg.
The first ball was bowled with the standing umpire,a square leg umpire and a point umpire before anyone noticed.
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The first ball was bowled with the standing umpire,a square leg umpire and a point umpire before anyone noticed.
HAaaaahahahahaha. Unreal!
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Had a good one earlier. Their keeper clearly stumped given not out by their player doing square leg. Even after we were asking why not the guy hadn't given it the bat hadn't regained his ground! Two balls later, keeper stumps the other bat and the guy can't get his finger up fast enough!
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Another couple of village moments.
A chap run out with his bat in one hand and the other hand trying to stop his trousers falling down.
And the captain somehow asking two players if they would umpire at square leg.
The first ball was bowled with the standing umpire,a square leg umpire and a point umpire before anyone noticed.
I love every single word of this.
Imagine if there'd have been a run out shout. Square leg says he's safe, "Point" umpire says he's out... standing umpire confused because he's got 7 stones in his pocket...
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We played a team yesterday who were not quite interested in "the spirit of the game" and seemed very keen to mankad 3 of our batsmen who were possible an inch outside of their crease, I won't start on this but I'm sure everyone has an opinion on that sort of behaviour in div 9 of the escl.
At one point their slow old miserable (No Swearing Please) of a bowler hobbled in rolled his arm over, turned around as he was about the release the ball tried to throw the non striking batsmans stumps down missed and claimed he had dropped the ball
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Got back from our game yesterday to hear that the 2nds had had a very interesting game against a notoriously mental side.
The oppo were apparently on the beers throughout the game and continually abusing our home umpire for any decision he made. Even though he gave 2 run outs and LBWs against us.
This all culminated in one of them getting bowled 1st ball and as he walked off launched his helmet kicked it and then stood on the outfield and pummelled it to bits with his bat!! To the extent that his teammates had to come on and clear up the pieces!!
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
You'll be surprised how many 1st XI cricketers i see who play on grass wickets every week fail to mark their guard properly. I reckon over 50% scratch or mark nowhere near where their bat ended up when asking for it.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40917477 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40917477)
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Lovely little ground
That's still some big hitting tho off one over
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You'll be surprised how many 1st XI cricketers i see who play on grass wickets every week fail to mark their guard properly. I reckon over 50% scratch or mark nowhere near where their bat ended up when asking for it.
I'm always amazed when umpiring how many people mark their guard and then stand nowhere near it!
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
I wish you batsmen stopped doing this. just taken me all morning to fill the bl**dy holes in my pitch!!!!!!
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Saw this The fielder threw the ball in from in front of square of the wicket to the keeper the tall batsman was standing in front of the shorter wicket keeper obscuring his view of the throw so he steps forward out of his crease to allow the keeper to catch the ball the keeper proceeds to stump the batsman and the umpire gives him out the batsman then as a go at the wicket keeper For taking the bails off and the square leg umpire for giving him out.
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Saw this The fielder threw the ball in from in front of square of the wicket to the keeper the tall batsman was standing in front of the shorter wicket keeper obscuring his view of the throw so he steps forward out of his crease to allow the keeper to catch the ball the keeper proceeds to stump the batsman and the umpire gives him out the batsman then as a go at the wicket keeper For taking the bails off and the square leg umpire for giving him out.
Not out!
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After the toss, FOUR batsmen walked out to open, with both teams thinking they were batting first!
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It had been a while since I played on a real turf wicket (not many in North america). I tend to romanticize small things like scratching your guard into the pitch (instead of using chalk - which is what we do on mat or artificial pitches).
So, was excited about playing on an excellent turf pitch recently.. took my guard, and then proceeded to scratch it into the pitch using my fancy new spikes. Sadly, I didn't quite get the technique right, and looked down to see THREE lines being scratched into the pitch instead of just one.
So, last week, I tried the Chanderpaul bail method.. worked great, but I cracked the bail! Nobody was looking, so I just placed it back sheepishly...
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A few years back playing against a West Indian team based in South East London we had possibly the most entertaining two games of cricket I've ever played in. In the first game (home) in the first over their opening bowler reminded our opening batsmen where the changing room was which was hilarious. Later in the game we came of for rain, an hour later our captain told me to get my pads back on we were going back out we went to tell the opposition captain and he replied with the rum is open the game is done and they decided to drink the 4 bottles of rum in the showers.
In the away game we batted first and at drinks instead of the normal water or squash jugs they had rum which cracked us all up and then in the same game their opening batsmen came out to bat and took his guard half way down the track and whilst still batting half way down the track he managed to score a hundred. They were good friendly blokes and made the game very entertaining
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A few years back playing against a West Indian team based in South East London we had possibly the most entertaining two games of cricket I've ever played in. In the first game (home) in the first over their opening bowler reminded our opening batsmen where the changing room was which was hilarious. Later in the game we came of for rain, an hour later our captain told me to get my pads back on we were going back out we went to tell the opposition captain and he replied with the rum is open the game is done and they decided to drink the 4 bottles of rum in the showers.
In the away game we batted first and at drinks instead of the normal water or squash jugs they had rum which cracked us all up and then in the same game their opening batsmen came out to bat and took his guard half way down the track and whilst still batting half way down the track he managed to score a hundred. They were good friendly blokes and made the game very entertaining
Catford Wanderers or Catford Cyphers by any chance? Can't remember which one is the more West Indian of the two.
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Catford Wanderers or Catford Cyphers by any chance? Can't remember which one is the more West Indian of the two.
It wasn't either although I played against Catford Cyphers this weekend in a development game and they had a few West Indians. The team from the story was Simba but there's now some other West Indian teams as well RASRA spring to mind, they are all good lads
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Batting in the nets a while ago - Lad runs down the track to me & wraps his bat around the support framework after an almighty swing and a miss. Massive rectangular deep score across the face of his bat.
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It wasn't either although I played against Catford Cyphers this weekend in a development game and they had a few West Indians. The team from the story was Simba but there's now some other West Indian teams as well RASRA spring to mind, they are all good lads
Played against Simba a few years ago during my brief stint with Roan & Lambethans - an experience to say the least!! (The jerk chicken teas were a massive plus!)
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Played against Simba a few years ago during my brief stint with Roan & Lambethans - an experience to say the least!! (The jerk chicken teas were a massive plus!)
It's definitely the most distinct memory I have playing cricket, especially the week an England net bowler rocked up and started bowling bouncers at everyone in the dark whilst a bit drunk from the rum :D
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It's definitely the most distinct memory I have playing cricket, especially the week an England net bowler rocked up and started bowling bouncers at everyone in the dark whilst a bit drunk from the rum :D
The dreadlock batsman too - what a bloke. Used to commentate on his own batting, remember him biffing a six down the ground and giving it the 'mind the windows' to our opener ha
Never a dull match!
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The dreadlock batsman too - what a bloke. Used to commentate on his own batting, remember him biffing a six down the ground and giving it the 'mind the windows' to our opener ha
Never a dull match!
The guy with the dreadlocks was they guy who batted half way down the wicket hes proper hilarious
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Was the first club member to turn up for a Sunday friendly away match only to find another away team was n the changing room they thought at first i was a new signing transpired the home club had double booked the fixture.
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Played reverse sweep to a ball pitched out the leg stump and umpire gave me out LBW.
I asked him why and he said since I used the reverse sweep, I am considered a left handed batsman. :o
He did apologize after the match.
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The oppo's captain today had watched last night's fight, and came to skipper his side with a grand total of 0 hours sleep!
He came in to say hello to our skipper, stumbling about and slurring his words!
He usually carries his bat and nurdles his way to 80/90. His first ball today, gets nowhere near the ball, hits his pad and goes to first slip. He then stumbles out of his crease and our first slip chucks it onto the stumps to run him out, leaving their umpire and entire team in absolute hysterics.
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The oppo's captain today had watched last night's fight, and came to skipper his side with a grand total of 0 hours sleep!
He came in to say hello to our skipper, stumbling about and slurring his words!
He usually carries his bat and nurdles his way to 80/90. His first ball today, gets nowhere near the ball, hits his pad and goes to first slip. He then stumbles out of his crease and our first slip chucks it onto the stumps to run him out, leaving their umpire and entire team in absolute hysterics.
The most village part of this story is the fact that he stayed up all night to watch a carny sideshow.
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Today in a T20 semi final, batting 3 walked down the wicket bowler dug it in, was still able to force it past mid off on the back foot. Non striker didn’t move as I called for one. Arrived at the NS end and thought, walk off or make an attempt to make my ground? Chose the latter, mid off got so excited he launched a throw at the keeper that went for 4 over throws.
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^ LOL. Funny stuff!!!!
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Had a cracker in yesterday’s game
One of the oppos batters wanders to the crease, takes his guard, then announces,”I’m here for a while”
Out for a golden!
Priceless
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Opposition batsman came out to bat yesterday with his thigh pads on the outside of his trousers! :(
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Just after the drinks break, opposing batsman walks to the crease, takes his roll up out of his mouth and asks if "any of you fellas want half a cigarette..."
Even the smokers said no :D
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In Saturday's game an opposition player was chasing the ball down to the boundary and then went to flick it back to his mate but somehow managed to hold on to it too long and threw it over his head for 4!! Stupid thing was I am sure the ball had stopped short of the boundary!
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Played saturday and a left hander comes out with a cji fatso, which we questioned the legality of anyway... hits his first ball for 4 over the bowler "Just to let you know, that's the first ball I've faced in a year!" So I said from square leg "Yeah don't let it get to your head mate..." caught at gully the next ball!!!!
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Opposition batsman came out to bat yesterday with his thigh pads on the outside of his trousers! :(
Was this in York?
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Was this in York?
No, Worcester League. Got a lot of sniggers from our players.
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No, Worcester League. Got a lot of sniggers from our players.
Our number 10 did the same. We were laughing harder than the opposition 😂😂
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Played reverse sweep to a ball pitched out the leg stump and umpire gave me out LBW.
I asked him why and he said since I used the reverse sweep, I am considered a left handed batsman. :o
He did apologize after the match.
The umpire is right. Not sure why he apologised though.
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A young punk and an older guy open the batting. Our young quick peppers the younger guy for a maiden first up. As I'm jogging through between the overs, i check out the gloves of the older guy, seeing the chunky pad on his left thumb, i call out 'left hander boys'...
I take another step before the batsmen replies, 'Mate, what's with that $hit? I'm a righty.'
A bit confused, I replied 'You've got left handed gloves on champ.'
Him, looking even more confused, starts to say no i don't as he puts his hands onto his bat and sees, that, as i had indicated, the padding was on the wrong thumb.
'Aye! I do too. That's pretty observant of you aye.'
The sad part... He could actually bat a bit. The world is cruel at times.
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The umpire is right. Not sure why he apologised though.
I do believe, sir, that you are incorrect. Your leg stump doesn’t move when you play the reverse sweep or the switch hit.
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Ball pitches outside leg stump : not out
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Sorry guys. You all are right with regards to lbw. Not out. I was under a wrong impression. Thanks for clearing it up
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https://youtu.be/KYuf9Kv_T3c (https://youtu.be/KYuf9Kv_T3c)
How about an accidental genius mankading?
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Not one but two instances of fielders colliding when going for a catch yesterday, deffo created a chuckle. First one neither shouted a name and they ran into each other and the second one they both SCREAMED their names and still ran into each other :D
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https://youtu.be/KYuf9Kv_T3c (https://youtu.be/KYuf9Kv_T3c)
How about an accidental genius mankading?
Brilliant cricket all round!
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These are most probably know to you guys but I just stumbled across them and they made me laugh.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDi39JOz9Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDi39JOz9Y)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vyW3-tBNk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vyW3-tBNk)
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These are most probably know to you guys but I just stumbled across them and they made me laugh.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDi39JOz9Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDi39JOz9Y)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vyW3-tBNk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vyW3-tBNk)
Seen them before but still make me laugh. There's one on how to get into the slip corden which is pretty accurate (certainly at the level I've spent most of my career at). Namely keeper, skip, whoever tells good stories and whoever actually takes a slip catch gets an automatic pass into slips :D
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Any England selection meeting of the last 3 years :(
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Only the last three years?
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Bloke came into bat on Saturday for oppos, think he was number 9,,,
Anyway, he was holding a lovely white poly Slazenger sports direct special bat, I passed a comment to my knowledgeable teammate Mr Hosk, on how wonderful the bat looked,,,,anyway, my sarcasm soon backfired, as the lovely chap preceded to take my bowling apart and dispatched me to all parts,,(before I bowled him)
Serves me right for being a bat tart
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When the opening bowler is wearing white adidas shorts with blue stripes down the sides and black trainers and socks! I refused to get out to him!! In which I was successful!
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Had a good one last night- came out to bat with 3 balls to go in the innings. I hit a single, guy at other end out first ball. Next man in couldn’t be bothered getting his gear on for one ball so opposition told me to go back to the strikers end for the last ball, nobody at non strikers end! Then I dispatched it for 4! We won by 4 runs!!
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A lad came out to bat in blue pads which was slightly village. What made it more village was he batted left handed and the pads were right handed. He lasted two balls
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Our wonderful “league” umpire yesterday had a mare.
He got hit by the ball being thrown in from the boundary for a run out as “I’d stop paying attention”
He asked the oppos mid on to signal a six as his arms were tired.
And at the end of the 39th over when we still need a few runs to win, he pulled out the stumps and started walking off.
When we was shaking hands the other umpire said “not only do I have to put up with that crap every week, I have to fetch him and take him home as he isn’t allowed to drive”
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Had a practice t20 match yesterday. Umpires said there is no lbw because batsmen cry and its a friendly match. We had an 11 year old offie in out team whos bowling figures read: 3 overs 2 for 13 which also included 2 dropped catches. We won by 99 runs having posted a 199 run target.
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League umpire gave a wide this weekend .... plus the 4 for the batsman who crashed it through the covers......
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not sure if this is the right thread, but..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/44613032 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/44613032)
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I think turning up to a ground after 6 weeks of 20+ degrees weather and finding a soft green deck is pretty village 😅
Then again, so is throwing your gear and having a breakdown after being Bowled first ball of the game on said pitch by a double bouncer from the quickest bowler in the league.
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I think turning up to a ground after 6 weeks of 20+ degrees weather and finding a soft green deck is pretty village 😅
Then again, so is throwing your gear and having a breakdown after being Bowled first ball of the game on said pitch by a double bouncer from the quickest bowler in the league.
No ball surely
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I think turning up to a ground after 6 weeks of 20+ degrees weather and finding a soft green deck is pretty village 😅
Then again, so is throwing your gear and having a breakdown after being Bowled first ball of the game on said pitch by a double bouncer from the quickest bowler in the league.
I have come across a couple of those on the least few weeks. A few groundsmen have clearly decided to water than leave the covers on to avoid the pitch completely dusting over and becoming dangerous. The bounce is low but I would rather that than a dangerous pitch to play on
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I have come across a couple of those on the least few weeks. A few groundsmen have clearly decided to water than leave the covers on to avoid the pitch completely dusting over and becoming dangerous. The bounce is low but I would rather that than a dangerous pitch to play on
Our groundsman tried that approach - except he only managed to water both ends on a length
http://imgur.com/gallery/tqHkftu (http://imgur.com/gallery/tqHkftu)