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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Colesy on March 24, 2012, 09:23:44 PM
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Thought I'd jump the gun and set up this kinda topic for the third year ;)
My season starts three weeks today, when is everyone elses' first game? Good luck to everyone who I don't play against! :D
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First game for us is in June :( still some time to go..
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Working party followed by a net next Saturday. First friendlies games 7th/8th April, first league games 21st April. Season likely to finish with an interclub on the 29th September.
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First friendly is on 21st April so not long now, it's usually haunts lisvane who we have played for the last few years and followed by a game against local rivals bishopston the week after.
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Ahhh Lisvane :)
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First league game 21st against club I played for last season but ore season game before I think
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Played our first game today against Driglington Whitehall from the Dales Council. Played a format of 11+ players (though only 11 field) and both teams bat the overs. Drig batted first and on a very low/slow deck they got 174 off 40. Despite being 5-3 & 20-4 we fell just 1 run short off our 40. Track wasn't great with plenty of erratic (but low) bounce, but considering the track was covered in snow 72 hours ago you can't complain.
My contribution with the ball was 4-20 off my 4 overs, we gave 10 guys 4 overs each. I chipped in during the slog with 10 with the bat, notable for my first scoring shot of the season being a back force over extra cover for 6. Would've been more impressive had the offside boundary not been approx 35 yards away, as we played on the edge of the square. Top edged a ball that popped on me and my fun was over :-(
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Looks like I'm moving clubs this year (although nothing confirmed yet) so not at all sure when my first game is!
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Looks like I'm moving clubs this year (although nothing confirmed yet) so not at all sure when my first game is!
How come your moving clubs Ian, I thought you broke into the 1's last year?
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I'm moving up to sunny Bristol in 2 weeks time so looking to play for a team up there. Will be sad to leave my club but I think the best way to meet new people in a new area is to join a sports club, so that's what I'm going to do :)
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Tons of forumites in the Bristol area. Tomtek and Peplow (when he's not at uni) to name a couple - I'm sure they can hook you up
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Where I Bristol you moving to mate? Cue mad scramble to get you to join our clubs!
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Very true, there could be a forum club based in Bristol I reckon! I've been talking to a mate of mine this week who plays for Bedminster and that looks the most likely option, as I already know a few guys there... Just a shame that they are in the same league as my current club!
I'm looking at some places tomorrow, looking in Clifton, Filton and Downend!
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Should be interesting when you play your old club, good luck with the move :)
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give filton a miss!!
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Haha I'm sure it will be! Thanks very much :)
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People I thought Filton was ok?! I thought Downend was the one to avoid out of the three ;)
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Downend is all right actually, Peplow is right, would avoid Filton. Clifton is nicest but price tags will match
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downend is slightly better than filton. slightly. clifton is mint, but £££
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Will bear that in mind! The one I'm most likely to go for is Downend, as I need to be near the M32 for work. My bud from Bristol keeps saying Clifton, but too expensive I think!
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Nice track at downend and tiny boundaries.
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Rubbish if you have a car in Clifton too, if you choose the right bit of Downend it's far better than Filton. Look to keep away from the Staple Hill end, unless you are a fan of Miss Millie's Chicken!
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Haha, nice to have some inside information from you guys! Cheers for the help :)
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Nice track at downend and tiny boundaries.
Nice church to aim for.
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Can't get a worse start than Durham uni 18 all out granted against Durham first class but ouch none the less
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Can't get a worse start than Durham uni 18 all out granted against Durham first class but ouch none the less
Saw that and thought my eyes were deceiving me, then on second look I was sure. Shocking even if it was a uni!
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Looks like I'm moving clubs this year (although nothing confirmed yet) so not at all sure when my first game is!
Bristol West Indies love big hitters! But in all seriousness, the majority of our games are that way anyway?
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We need someone to join our first team!
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Bristol West Indies love big hitters! But in all seriousness, the majority of our games are that way anyway?
Haha, don't think I'd fit in too well with them Matthew! Yeah I see your point, but if I'm going to be living up that way, I want to get to know a few people... It's difficult as I don't want to lose contact with the boys at Minehead, but I've spoke with Roo and he's happy for me to whatever...
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First game is Scheduled for this Sunday, but with the weather being like it is and looks as if its going to stay the same way for a good couple of days, looks like I may have to wait another week for my first game :(
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Netted the last few days at our ground. Very worried we won't play on a grass wicket at home for a couple of months. Really disheartening.
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Had my first game of the season today..time game ended up 39 overs for them having been inserted and 26 for us...cause of the rain (typical).
Fielded well, though had a couple cracked at me by a guy with a 3.5 Newb Mjolnir - safe to say it went well...
Chasing 184 to win I came in at 4 with us about 20-2. Chipped in with 20 off 14 balls with 2 fours and a flat six over mid-on.
Nicked off in the end but got undone by the pitch more than the bowler as I got a short wide one that took off as I was trying to cut :(
Happy to have played this early in the season though!! :D
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Sounds good mate, trust you to be inquisitive about the opposition's bats ;)
If the weather holds our first game has been shifted to our 3's/4's ground with an artificial and tiny boundaries. No-one do a rain dance!!!
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Haha, only reason I knew was because I'd kept wicket when he scored a hundred against us last year...especially annoying as he nicked off to me when on 40... :/
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You mean someone actually used a bat for more than one season? I've never heard of this concept! ;)
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You mean someone actually used a bat for more than one season? I've never heard of this concept! ;)
They must be mad!
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You mean someone actually used a bat for more than one season? I've never heard of this concept! ;)
I have had the same match bat for 3 years now. But my spare has changed a few times ;)
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I've had more bats than seasons I've played haha
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so my meteoric (cough) rise continues...
you might remember i posted about being thrust from 3rd team obscurity to keep and open for the 2nds last season. as luck would have it the 1st team keeper has broken a collarbone so i kept for the 1sts last weekend and am set to do the same again tomorrow.
i'm really pleased at how my keeping has come on - i'm standing up to every bowler except our 80mph opener and feeling pretty good, although the occasional over pitched ball still cannons back off my pads!
i opened the batting on saturday against a South Wales Premier team and felt ok for the 3 overs i was there, before a ball i was trying to push into the covers seamed back to hit the outside of leg! bit of a green track. still, hope i get another chance.
to all you young cricketers out there who are playing 2nd, 3rd or 4th team cricket this just shows what hard work and dedication can do for you. i'm not a particularly talented cricketer but i work hard and concentrate and this has helped me no end! 6 years ago i scored my maiden 50 for the club's 5th XI and now i'm on the edge of trying to nail down a 1st team spot!
my ambition is to score a 50 for all of the club's senior teams..only the firsts left to get!
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Well done mate, great effort that and a good example to people who maybe take up the sport later than others. Good luck for the season
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cheers Phil, don't think I'll be required to open for the 1sts this season as that would be too much to ask! we have an excellent top order so i'm expecting to bat 7-10. still, it's good experience; if i go back to the 2s when the normal wk comes back at least i'll be better than i was before!
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Had a pleasant surprise today getting a text from the 1st captain asking me to play so got my 1st team debut tomorrow :D got no kit as its at my place in notts but have a bat but oh well will make the most of it !
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1st game of the season today against a Westlands team missing their best player. batted first on a green top, hit 160-5, then bowled them out for 80 odd. Didn't get a bat unfortunately as the skipper wanted to look at some of the newer faces at the club and work on some batting plans, although he did ask me to bowl a few overs, which I kindly declined as it would have turned an OK performance into a bad one, and with me bowling, it could have been a lot closer to 160 than it looked lol.
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Scored 47 not out opening the batting today in a friendly. Chased down 113 to win.
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Got 3-39 off 9 overs today but it wasn't enough as the other team chased down 160 with 3 balls left. The pitch wasn't great for batting but was ideal for legspin and had I been able to cut down on wide's we could've just about won the match but as it was my second match of the season I'm not too bothered. The ball was turning around 1-2 feet so I had lots of plays and misses and got 2 stumping's. Can't wait till it gets warmer as it was freezing today.
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Can't wait till it gets warmer as it was freezing today.
Amen to that brother!
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Had a good knock today felt in good touch and got 3 wickets
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How many did you get Roco? :)
First game tomorrow, excited would not express how I'm feeling at the moment!
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Batted in pairs for 8 overs in a club game but got around 20 ish with no chances given to fielders
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Was pretty fun in our inter-club game today. Due to starting with 16 people we decided to do a 2 innings per side game, the 'oppo' batted first and got 44 in their 16 overs, our 1s opener breaking his new GN Oblivion 5 star on it's first outing. I managed to get 1-10 off of my 4 over allocation. We then batted and got 87 from our 16 overs, came in for the last 2 overs and got 10* off of 8 balls so a nice not out and high strike rate to start the season.
We had a 20 minute interval for 'tea' or pop to Subway/KFC/Greggs/Tesco over the road.
As we were so far ahead we decided that both teams would bat their last 16 over allocation regardless of scores. I kept for our second fielding innings and got a stumping and a few byes, and dropped a catch stood up which I should've taken even for a crap keeper. We ended up winning by over 100 and unfortunately I didn't get in for our second batting innings :(
FREEZING COLD!
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oppo called the game off due to weather while we were driving to the game. However, bumped in our neighbours St Chads CC and discovered they had been equally shafted so arranged a short notice match. 30 overs a side and we fielded first. For 15 overs we bowled and caught like drains, but restricted them to 111-8 in 30. We were going steady at 21-1 off 8 when we collapsed to 26-5 and never really recovered, being bowled out for 92 in 27 overs. Batted like utter morons against a very average attack on a flat deck, but in truth we we gave them 50 runs when we bowled.
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think I had an early contender for unluckiest dismissal of the year - taking a routine single to the old guy at midwicket when he kicks the ball at the stumps 15-20 yards away with only one stump visible...and wastes the lot.
Don't think its good form to laugh walking off, but what can you do?
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I've had more bats than seasons I've played haha
I realised the other day that after starting cricket again halfway through last season I have had 8 bats since then.
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Lost a friendly yesterday, and the match was followed by a bar brawl between the 2nd XI captain and one of his players... there's never a dull moment at our club
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1st game of the season today against a Westlands team missing their best player. batted first on a green top, hit 160-5, then bowled them out for 80 odd. Didn't get a bat unfortunately as the skipper wanted to look at some of the newer faces at the club and work on some batting plans, although he did ask me to bowl a few overs, which I kindly declined as it would have turned an OK performance into a bad one, and with me bowling, it could have been a lot closer to 160 than it looked lol.
Who got runs mate?
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Who got runs mate?
Boggo had 30, Tilley had 36, Jake Hayes got 20, Fiss got 20, and that was about it. Typical early season pitch.
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watch our 2nd string today and we got 173 ao in 40 overs, notable for Simmy collecting a duck (and 2 others as we were 8-3 off 10 overs). Oppo may have regretted tossing it up for a few overs mid innings, as we bowled them out for 123 lol. Interesting looking at the team strengths, they (east leeds) were pretty much a Central Yorkshire League 2nd XI with 1 first team batter and 1 decent bowler. We are a Wetherby Div 6 scratch 2nd XI (excluding Simdog) and for most of the game I watched you would've thought it was the other way round.
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Was simmy playing one of his cultured cover drives
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Nope, big moose to cow lol. Saw the short boundary and got a little giddy :D
He's a silly sausage haha
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Played my first game today, was supposed to be a second team game but I was asked to play. Batted till drinks (22 overs) then me and my parter were retired after putting on a 130 opening partnership, I hit 75 not out and he hit 53 not out. I tried to get an extra 5 overs to go for my hundred but they won't having any of it. We ended up 270 all out and then we bowled them out for a very long and boring 120.
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Another cold day but another win. Due to our (No Swearing Please) '2nd' ground the opposition managed to get 101-7 in their 40 overs, even shots creamed out of the middle wouldn't go for 4 and I believe there were 9 fours the whole game. I got 8-2-17-2 and was down at 7 again so didn't bat as we chased down the total fairly easily.
It really isn't fun playing on our other pitch as the outfield is rarely cut and it's an artificial. Might not play home fixtures until we go back to our normal ground which could be June :(
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Boggo had 30, Tilley had 36, Jake Hayes got 20, Fiss got 20, and that was about it. Typical early season pitch.
Good work, have no idea who boggo or tilley are but good work on the win!
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first friendley today got a duck haha
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We know ;)
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Simmy still managed to smash the toe on one of Ryans bats in his little knock. Cheer up Simdog, at least you took a wicket :-)
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First game of the season, me and my old man prepared a pitch that looked pretty good, possibly could of had less grass on it, but looked good. Playing against a team from Axminster called All Saints. I can't remember what happened at the toss, however we batted first, was in after the 5th ball of the match. Started slow, but managed to get 70, before getting bowled by a ball which seamed back in, couldn't really do much about it. We managed to knock up 222 - 4 from our 40 overs. Lovely tea as usual. Went out to field, skittles them for 62. Took a catch, and had 0-10 off 4 overs. Pitch played alright, was just pretty slow and low.
Also, it bloody freezing! :)
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It was so cold, my fingers were numb inside my batting gloves until I warmed up! A couple of shots off the toe really hurt!
Then went out to field with 3 underarmours and a jumper, the sun then preceded to show itself!
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We know ;)
It's on twitter, facebook, the Headingley CC Forums. I haven't texted everybody in the club yet but since I have 1,936 texts to use, it's only a matter of time. Some photos of Simmy's backside here:-
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/headingleycricketclub/photos/east-leeds-15th-april-2012-261002.html
I've got some lovely video of Simmy wipping the bails off here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSrwd9s4_A&feature=youtu.be
Apologies for the crap mobile phone video/photo.
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look at size of that fat keeper what a waster!
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some pics from yesterdays pathetic effort:-
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/headingleycricketclub/photos/hcc-v-st-chads-261206.html
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first friendley today got a duck haha
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nothing changes with you sim dog
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played in the 1st team warm up game and we won, was meant to come bat at 9 as it was my debut but got 207-6 then fielded dropped a catch but fielded well on the whole and bowled the best i have for about 2 seasons and got a wicket with the worst ball of the day :P ended with figures of 4-1-17-1. Ended up winning with them only getting 127
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We took a bit of pasting yesterday in our 1st league game of the season. Bowled the oppo out for 152, my figures 3-0-14-1, and we were all out for 81 with me last man standing 10*. The wicket was incredibly low, our pro (1 test match for Pakistan in 1989) took a wicket with a double bouncer!
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Lost as a team but personally I got 3-41, a catch off a huuuuuuge skyer and then 22. Not a bad start I suppose. Got out to an inswinging yorker....
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Batted so badly on Sat. I would swear but don't want to get banned haha! Got 7 but nothing clicked and we were chasing 200 so went for a stupid release shot.
Managed to forget that horror and opened the batting today; got a nice 46 but then got undone by a straight ball that kept about 10cm off the ground >:( - was annoyed as I fancied my chances for a 50/100... :(
Still glad to have spent some time in the middle though!
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We rocked up with only 8 men, damn football and rugby! Needless to say we got hammered!
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Bit of a mixed day today! Firstly, it was my first game for my new club and didn't know what to expect. It was also the first game the Aussie overseas played and so he opened the batting with some other guy. The aussie batted through 40 overs for 80 odd and I ended up coming in at 5 with only a couple of overs left, and batting against a Gloucestershire 2's bowler I managed to get myself caught in the deep! We hit 185 and ended up losing by 5 wickets with just 7 balls remaining.
Was nice to meet all the guys at the new club, but also very frustrating to throw my wicket away :@ Got a game for the 1's tomorrow too, and have been told I'm opening that batting so hopefully I'll make the most out of it!
Anybody else get a full game in today?
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Atleast you got a game mate, had 2 scheduled for this weekend, of which both were cancelled :(
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Who's the Aussie overseas mate? Heard some rumours :P
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Our first team played today and beat Frinton, our overseas first league game and got 115 and took 4 wickets, one of the younger boys got 65 and they set 220 odd and bowled Frinton out for 180 odd I think, so a good first result to season
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Yeah Lansdown did really well to get the game on to be honest!
The Aussie isn't really overseas as he's got an English passport I think, he played a few games for Derbyshire 2's last year. Really sound guy- http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/461157.html
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Lost to old club yesterday on one of the worst cricket wickets I've played on they got 144 we were all out for 98 3-39 and 7 for me bowled well but played a daft shot to get out after feeling really comfortable
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Yeah Lansdown did really well to get the game on to be honest!
The Aussie isn't really overseas as he's got an English passport I think, he played a few games for Derbyshire 2's last year. Really sound guy- [url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/461157.html[/url]
Surprised England haven't tried signing him up ;)
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kept well batted (No Swearing Please)! 2nd ball duck lol
ryan got a nice steady 64 no! hes so good they named a bat after him lol
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Just dirty slogging from start to finish mate, we only needed 6 when you came in, very surprised by the dirty moo to leg from you...or am I lol.
Bowled well but didn't get a wicket though, 7-14-1-0
Good start to the season, hope we continue next we against streethouse.
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i no 6 to win and i didnt do it shame on me :(
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Bowled well but didn't get a wicket though, 7-14-1-0
pretty good to bowl 14 maidens in 7 overs lol
Played for our newly formed 2nd XI yesterday in their first ever league game. Had a dream start reducing the oppo to 40-7 but then dropped 8 catches letting the oppo get to 125. Hard work chasing as we were 61-3 off 30 overs, but 2 of our finer strikers of a ball knocked 70 off in 5.3 overs to finish it in style. Bowled 2.3-1-1-1, that was about it.
First XI started their exhibition tour of WCL Div 4 by dicking Great Preston, 87 ao v 89-3. No surprises there.
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70 in 5.3 overs jesus!!!!!
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70 in 5.3 overs jesus!!!!!
That's almost stick cricket territory!!!
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big dave hit 4 sixes and poults went out and hit his first 2 balls for 10 runs lol - the spinner had bowled 11 overs for 15 at that point. Poults had been doing his Mr Angry impression for 30 overs up unto that point lol
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pretty good to bowl 14 maidens in 7 overs lol
Well you know, I'm that good haha
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We won a rain reduced game. Down to 34 overs we batted first and set 127 on a horrible soggy dog wicket. I opened and felt really good, until 10 weeks of netting in a sports hall took it's toll and instinctively got into position to hook a ball that subsequently didn't get above knee height and was bowled for single figures.
They got about 110 for 9, but that's a little flattering to them, as they only managed to get that close due to a couple of sixes in the last over. Really good win against a team that are normally hard to beat on their home ground
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Beat Bridgwater 1st's yesterday, in a Sunday League game (odd I know). Batted first, hit 191-6 on a slow pudding off a pitch off 40 overs, opened up, got a quickfire 17 and 'played myself into contention for a first team slot' according to the skipper. Bowled them out for 160 in the 40th over. 2 from 2, from pre-season so far, and not a bad result against a 90% strength Bridgwater team that finished 3rd in WEPL 1 last season, with our team missing some very key players!
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Thats a serious result against Bridgy mate! Good work, get yourself in the 1's!
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Yes mate, they were pretty much full strength too. With Boggo out injured for the foreseeable future, I've got a chance to cement a place so dead happy! How did you get on yesterday? Get a game in?
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Yeah Lansdown did really well to get the game on to be honest!
The Aussie isn't really overseas as he's got an English passport I think, he played a few games for Derbyshire 2's last year. Really sound guy- [url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/461157.html[/url]
Fair enough. Heard that Ian Harvey was rumoured to play in WEPL this year and possibly Bedminster
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Played yesterday it peed it down on and off and eventually the game got rained off. We fielded first and I returned to keeping wicket for the first time in 8 years (well playing cricket for the first time in 8 years).
Took a catch, one silly bye in a total of 137 on a pudding of a wicket. I am apparantly the discovery of the year, I'll wait to see if I'm still the same when I've dropped a couple.....lol.
I'ts good to be back but I can't understand why my 52 year old legs are sore today. :)
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Fair enough. Heard that Ian Harvey was rumoured to play in WEPL this year and possibly Bedminster
Yeah I think the club are gonna try and get him to play a few games, he was down the club on Friday having a beer or two and seems to be there quite a lot!
Played my 2nd game of the weekend today at Westbury in Wiltshire, we managed to get a solid 8 overs of cricket in before it was rained off! We batted first and got to 41-3, lost our aussie and skipper early on and then another wicket fell. I opened and finished 31* before the heavens opened, which was a bit better than yesterday. Although running 5 3's and an all run 4 was definitely not part of the plan!
http://bedminster.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11459061
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Played yesterday it peed it down on and off and eventually the game got rained off. We fielded first and I returned to keeping wicket for the first time in 8 years (well playing cricket for the first time in 8 years).
Took a catch, one silly bye in a total of 137 on a pudding of a wicket. I am apparantly the discovery of the year, I'll wait to see if I'm still the same when I've dropped a couple.....lol.
I'ts good to be back but I can't understand why my 52 year old legs are sore today. :)
this was against whittington 2nds yeah? i hope as a forum member you spotted the lad using my bat with a set of ninja stickers on!
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this was against whittington 2nds yeah? i hope as a forum member you spotted the lad using my bat with a set of ninja stickers on!
Whittington in Shropshire?
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staffordshire
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Ah right!
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Surprisingly had a full game on Saturday, considering Friday lunch time it was looking doubtful. Batted at 6 in the 1's( normally open in the 3's but this was a mix of all 3 sides) and was out for 4 trying to put the bowler over the fence and into the shops on the other side of the road. We were all out for 179 with an over to go and bowled them out for 91 in around 25 overs.
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Spotted the Ninja stickers on the bat, had we batted my Ninja stickered wand would have got an airing.
I think it was the Ninja the edge came off for my catch.
Utmost respect it was a very thin edge and he walked. All round nice guy.
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Is expect him to walk he's a decent guy much better bat than most in that league. He won the league batting in about ten innings last year but bottles it on the first team. Decent victim tho :D
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I'm meant to have a rearranged uni game tomorrow... But it's 'student night' so I may have to play the rain card!
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My game has already been called off this weekend, good call if you ask me. Nothing worse than sitting around in the rain knowing it is not going to stop and people saying ''looks bright in the distance''
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ive already taken it that the game wont be on, as its league cup i reckon we will have to have a bowl out tho
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If not played this weekend Canners, then it is ment to be played next weekend
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If not played this weekend Canners, then it is ment to be played next weekend
isnt round 2 meant to be played next weekend tho? and the league starts the week after that
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isnt round 2 meant to be played next weekend tho? and the league starts the week after that
You can have a bowl out, but it does state on the league website that ''If neither club have ground fit for play and BOTH clubs are happy to achieve a result in a mutually agreeable manner then that is also acceptable.
If no agreement to any of the above is possible the game should then be played over the following weekend again using the above alternatives in the event of bad weather.
In the extreme circumstances of no match being completed over both weekends clubs will have to be flexible going forward.
No one likes a bowlout, but if you are playing oppo who are very very decent, then it may be an option ;)
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My game has already been called off this weekend, good call if you ask me. Nothing worse than sitting around in the rain knowing it is not going to stop and people saying ''looks bright in the distance''
Lol that saying is so true!!
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I had a spontaneous net last night, had to set the bowing machine up for another club so went down there early and had a little net! Felt good, although the inside of my leg leg/pad got very muddy!
I could have gone down this morning as its blazing sunshine, but instead I sat in the sofa and now I'm off to work! I'm so lazy sometimes!
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6 out of 7 games cancelled this weekend and the 1stXV fixture is subject to change :'(
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Last week's game was washed out, got serious doubt if tomorrow's game is going ahead! Wouldn't be too bothered if the game was called off because our opponents are an hour 'n half away from us!
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I have played my rain card well in the "moving house" weekend as all games are off so iv not missed any cricket yet!
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Plenty of help available then....
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you'd have thought so!
Cant see next weeks games being on either in all honesty as there has been that much rain
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Well now they've evicted the squatters from your place in Clifton and you've had it tarted up we can party this weekend,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123942/Inside-mansion-squalor-Pictures-3m-house-left-tatters-scrounging-squatter.html
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Both games off this weekend. Not happy. At least it means I can get smashed tonight guilt-free.
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Well now they've evicted the squatters from your place in Clifton and you've had it tarted up we can party this weekend,
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123942/Inside-mansion-squalor-Pictures-3m-house-left-tatters-scrounging-squatter.html[/url]
Chuffin hippies
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Sunday already off, still on tomorrow but weather is looking horrendous... Anyone know if Frenchay have got good covers? Or at least do good teas?
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Sunday already off, still on tomorrow but weather is looking horrendous... Anyone know if Frenchay have got good covers? Or at least do good teas?
Same situation for me, I want it to be off tomorrow though - last game of the season for Kidderminster Harriers and we stand a chance in getting in the play-offs.
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everything seemingly off for teh weekend...by Sunday that'll mean 16/19 of our clubs game at all levels this year...and two of teh ones that were played were on the first day!
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Sunday already off, still on tomorrow but weather is looking horrendous... Anyone know if Frenchay have got good covers? Or at least do good teas?
Dont think you will be on there mate - we were called off there a couple of weeks ago. The square may be OK but they have a corner of the ground that gets really boggy....
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Sunday already off, still on tomorrow but weather is looking horrendous... Anyone know if Frenchay have got good covers? Or at least do good teas?
They have covers Ian and its not a bad track there.
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6 out of 7 games cancelled this weekend and the 1stXV fixture is subject to change :'(
1sts game cancelled, and the weather isn't showing much of a let up for next week either!
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Had 3 games called off so far because of weather, yet to play a game :(
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Been nice here today and our ground drains well :D
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Dont think you will be on there mate - we were called off there a couple of weeks ago. The square may be OK but they have a corner of the ground that gets really boggy....
They have covers Ian and its not a bad track there.
Cheers guys, will keep my fingers crossed for everyone!
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I have no cricket matches arranged this week, hopefully get a couple nets in though :)
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Not playing Sunday due to unforseen circumstances to my self and Saturday is still on atm....
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Playing away at Glastonbury on Saturday anyone know what the chances of playing are down that way?
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I think a lot of us will struggle again!! Absolutely hammering it down again here!!
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Rained solidly from about 2 this morning until around 9ish in Surrey, from what I've seen it's going to have to reamin dry from now until Saturday if we're to get a game otherwise there'll be lakes of standing water on the outfields! :(
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Both my games this weekend are off already.... :( I might have to buy another bat to get me through the weekend... :D
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We got a full game on Saturday. Played the team that finished one place above us last year (they were 3rd we were 4th) - beat them quiet convincingly.
We scored 175 for 3 on a very decent wicket considering the conditions. For the most part the ball came onto the bat well, just possibly with a little extra lateral movement than usual.
I opened the batting and looked and felt like a million dollars until a ball moved away from me and skidded on a bit. I was late trying to pull the ball, but also some how trying to pull it on the wrong line, and was caught at slip off the back of my bat.
My opening partner in comparison scored 54 despite looking terrible, and scoring at least half of his runs off the edges of his bat (combination of chinese cuts and snicks through the slips) - hopefully I'll get a bit more luck at some point.
Total of 175 felt very slightly under par for the track, and was very frustrating that our number 4 had no interest in sacrificing his wicket to try and get us to a bigger total. With wickets in the hutch he was still patting the ball back to the bowler into the last 5 overs - especially frustrating when we had a couple of big hitters waiting to come in at 6 & 7. Luckily our number 5 played a nice little cameo, hitting a very quick 36.
We bowled the opposition out for 134 - they batted a bit brainlessly, as they got off to a flier and were about 60 for 1 off the first 10 overs, but once we made a break through they lost wickets regularly.
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My game on Saturday was called off on the morning of the game as the damage had been in the week! Such a shame because Saturday was a lovely day!
Cross fingers for this Saturday after today's downpour I don't feel confident!
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My game for tomorrow evening is off.
Meant to be playing on the same wicket on saturday so I guess that's in doubt.
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Just got a text, straight into the First team, for the first league game of the season. Team looks good, lets hope it plays up the expectation and standard we're hoping for! :)
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Got a text Monday saying I'm in the 1s. We were meant to be at home but has been rearrange to the oppo's ground, think we might actually play!
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Been told our 1's game is off so been asked to play for the twos. Words can't describe how much I want it to be on because the oppo will be full of my class-mates which will be a great laugh
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cant see any cricket at our ground for at least 3 weeks given the forecast and current conditions.
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Just been told our ground is soaked, not looking good for the 2 home games!
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Doubt I'll get a game this weekend went down to our ground before and it's wetter than a nun in a cucumber field
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Already called off for Saturday, will pop home over the weekend. Maybe get a game for Minehead on Sunday and hope that the Cockspur cup game is not rained off on Monday!
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Sundays cup game is off, rescheduled for Thursday as a T20, saturday still on at the moment. Never known the like lol!
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Sundays cup game is off, rescheduled for Thursday as a T20, saturday still on at the moment. Never known the like lol!
Who've you got on Sat mate? Has JD hooked you up in the 1's?!
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Our game on sat is off due to waterlogged pitch so at least it's early doors to save messing about
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Who've you got on Sat mate? Has JD hooked you up in the 1's?!
Yes mate, starting in the 1s, against Warminster away. I know I'm not there for the whole season, but you never know if I do well!
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Great stuff mate, let's hope your game's on! If you get runs mate, they can't take you out! Any idea where you'll be batting?
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Opening mate :D Need to make sure my technique is tighter than it has ever been lol.
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Sweet! Best of luck mate! Patience could be the key, will be some very good bowlers in that division I'd imagine... I'll be checking play-cricket sunday morning ;)
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Our game on sat is off due to waterlogged pitch so at least it's early doors to save messing about
In Dorset leagues can't call the game off until 11.30 now!
Too late if you ask me
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I wish you guys knew how bad the outfield was!!
http://bradleystokecc.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11411012
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59 and only 2 4's sod that for a game of soilders
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Probably a lovely looking 59 though simmy, mine or yours 59 would have mostly been leg side ;)
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I ran 55 of it, one was an all ran 4. Can't say it was a lovely looking 59 as after 50 I was dropped 7 times.
Did get the run out though, direct hit from midwicket. Should've had a second one but the young lad umpiring didn't give it. We won the match with our quick singles though, amazing how many more runs you can get with good running.
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Runs are runs mate, whatever standard and whatever conditions! Good work mate, nice start to the season :)
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Yeah no matter what it looked like it was enough to put our team in a good position. I'm going to claim back to back league 50s as I got one last game of last season haha. If only my average can remain at 67 for the rest of the season.
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Lost yesterday to the biggest bunch of muppets on a bad track and slow outfield but same for both sides but hate losing to teams like this who constantly swear at batsmen and bully umpires in to giving lbws and as they are league umps they buckle
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well batted colesy :)
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1st game today!!
An hours drive away so it had better be on
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Well I've mentioned that we won on a different thread. My personal contribution involved my first bowl of the year. I was toilet - 0-32 from 5 overs. And then I opened the batting and scored 1. Missed a straight one. So apart from an awesome win, pretty rubbish day for me.
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In the words of D:Ream "things can only get better"
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were you playing today ryan
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i know that feeling mate think ur boys are still on today but i been coaching this moring so not playing wish i could get a game in asap
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you're telling me mate, ive only played once all year & haven't we haven't even started in the EAPL on Saturdays yet!
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lets hope for better weather soon keep in touch mate have a good day
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Lovely sunny weather in Lincoln, we are on! Gonna be rusty, I've had 1 net session last week, and nothing else since about July last year... This'll be interesting!
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Argghh - can't wait to play. 2 games off already, and nets too wet to bat in so the only place I've had a bat in so far is in 'Buzz's Barn of Death'
It's no way for a 'proper batsman' to prepare.
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you're telling me mate, ive only played once all year & haven't we haven't even started in the EAPL on Saturdays yet!
Do you play in the East Anglian Premier League? If so, who for?
Was dropped down to the 2nd's on Monday, promoted back to the 1st team on Thursday and then got a text on Friday saying the game was called off.. Brilliant. Hopefully if the weather is nice there should be two 20/20's this week which should help me find some rhythm ready for some Saturday cricket.
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Yeah I play for Clacton Cricket Club haha, will be my third year :) Who do you play for?
Nice one, I'm nowhere near good enough to play in the EAPL however I live about a mile away from Swardeston so know a couple of their players. Might pop down when they play Clacton on the 7th of July to see how you get on(no pressure! :D )
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Just the one game for me, 6 have been called off.
I did get a cheeky appearance for the 1st XI though, which was nice, 1-17 off four overs and 0*. Not bad, we got smashed though. The other leggie went for 43 off 4 though, so I've done myself a favour there :)
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Got a game in yesterday and the pitch played pretty well, just a bit slow.
Bowled the oppo out for 129 and then we knocked off the runs in about 25overs and I had a good start to the season getting 69, out going for the winning runs caught on the boundary
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We won yesterday after finally getting a game, absolutely freezing but had loads of layers on which helped. 2 for 18 off 5.1 and 15 with the bat for me. Bowled very badly really as i struggled with my run up, no pace at all and no control either - I reckon I'm going to switch to bowl off a shorter run to try to get control back for now as I think I'm losing balance at the point of delivery.
15 included a couple of sixes, one over midwicket off a full toss which was absolutely massive and shows what a good middle my redback has.
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played two won two this weekend, beating Hayes and Perivale Phoenicians. Good games as they went.
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Seeing that most of you have played a game this weekend, makes me jealous! My last game was some 4 weeks ago :(
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Seeing that most of you have played a game this weekend, makes me jealous! My last game was some 4 weeks ago :(
Still havent played yet, the weather in Sussex has Been atrocious! :(
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I've only had the one game! :(
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Very good weekend of cricket for myself. Had a game yesterday and got 3-7 of 9 overs best figures yet and made 18 Not out, Shame we lost! Also bowled 1-13 of 6 overs today and made 3 and then got to watch Scotland versus Surrey as they were playing 2 minutes away from were our match was!
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Yeah successful is an understatement! was good to see meaker and dernbach bowling up close! also have a game everyday up to thursday so cricket has taken over!
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We won yesterday, oppo got 120-7 off their 55 overs and we knocked them off with 4 wickets remaining. I got 21* batting at 8 - came in and slogged
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good weekend for me. Skippered the 2nd XI due to the Captain and VC going away on the same weekend. In the league we scored 269-4 in 45 overs and bowled them out for 172ao. My contribution was 3-17 in 11 overs and my league bowling stats after 3 games stand at 26.1-8-36-5 :-)
Sunday we were playing in the cup against the 2nd best 2nd XI in our league, 3 divisions higher. We scored 208 and bowled them out for 27, making a mockery of the standings albeit they struggled for availability.
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First game of the season, only had 1 net (a week ago) in the past 9 months, too much dossing about in France! Lost by 2 wickets, all out 104. We were 94-4 at one point too, we just had a collapse. Got an LBW I wasn't toooo chuffed about, as I was walking off the keeper went off to celebrate and all I heard was "that was dubious!" which said it all. Made a fight of it though, our quickie got their best 2 bats in the first over off consecutive balls, and then got them to 40-5, but then their other good bat and the "leg-side slogger" (you know the one, the one that plays all around most balls and then slogs the one honing in for middle stump for 4 every sodding over?!) put on about 45, then I got rid of both of them including my first c+b in 13 attempts (and I nearly shelled that one!), but then they scrambled over the line. Lost one of our lads after 20 overs, twisted his knee (has had problems in the past) and we had a lad who was scared of the ball and the ball followed him, so we essentially had 9 fielders for the innings! Dropped 2 catches, although both were diving at full stretch, and the first was absolutely rocketing, to the point that it almost re-dislocated my finger and is now swollen like God knows what! Finished with 9-1-22-2, decent effort but in vain really!
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Donned my whites for the first time this season yesterday and fielded first, it showed that we hadn't played since last September when they were 50-1 off 10 overs!
We managed to pull it back and restrict them to 180/7 off the 40 overs which wasn't a bad effort seeing as one of their lads scored 102 of them.
We didn't get off to the best start losing our opener 2nd ball of our innings and our number 3 followed shortly after leaving us with 3 runs for the loss of 2 wickets off 3 overs :( I was put in at #4 and managed to drag it back a bit before getting out LBW. Managed to dislocate my finger whilst stopping the ball for the bowler that a fielder had thrown back after a boundary which wasn't idea and not something I'll be doing again to be helpful.
We ended up all out for 138 I think which was disappointing as when I got out we needed 100 off of 23 overs with 7 wickets in hand.
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Bit of a shame Tom - I hope to be available this week if my back is better!! Not managed to get a game yet this season or have any nets due to the injury, so think I will be rather rusty!!!!
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We need u back in the mix mate...our tail started at number 7 yesterday I fear!!
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Got destroyed, bowling was awful! trundled in to increase accuracy but everything went everywhere. Helped wides top score! :/
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Our season started yesterday, home to what I thought would be a strong opposition in Christchurch CC.
The track wasn't too bad, no covers at our ground.
It's just 1 ball for the game so I was going to bowl if I'd won the toss, but we were asked to bat.
The openers both like to tee off and we got past 50 in 7 overs.
The first wicket fell for 69, the second at 135. I was batting at 4 and the butterflies were going.
I got off the mark quickly, walked down the track to an offy, and took a single.
I normally score with a lot of boundarys but only had 2 in my innings. For the 4 I walked to the bowler and clipped it behind square leg up the hill.
With about 10 overs left I swapped to the Hattori to try and push on in the last 10 as we had some quality still to come in.
I quickly hit a 6 off of their returning quick, I know him fairly well and he's a decent player, plays in Dorset premier division on a Saturday. I tried some shots I normally wouldn't, just trying to rotate the strike with the lad I've been netting with all winter. I was with him as he brought up 50 then he really motored. 2 overs from one end went for 26!
Brought up his hundred with a quick single to big big applause! 108 not out for him
I ended up on 44 not out, 22 of those in singles.
We finished on 266-2. We would have settled for 160 if it was offered!
Then in the field, I kept wicket I've not done it in 3 years I don't think and I am aching today!
The oppo never set about going after the total so bowled a couple of lads I hadn't really considered bowling. 1 lad on debut for the club, not played since school 22 years ago, took a wicket in his first over, caught and bowled!
Also a young lad only 13 took a 2fer as well.
I managed to catch one standing up to the stumps!
We bowled them out for 92!
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Still only played the one game this season, and haven't trained outside yet. Unbelievable!!
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Still only played the one game this season, and haven't trained outside yet. Unbelievable!!
snap
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Managed to get a game on Sunday. We batted first on a very soft wicket (I reckon it'll be July before they play on it again), were reduced to 23-5 when I came in, having dropped down for some of our bigger hitters got run out for a second (that was never on) for 6 although I had batted for an hour and half! We finished on 99-6 from 35, and bowled them out for 84 with 4 overs remaining. All in all it was a very good allround performance especially in the field. scoring was very hard, although having played twice on slow wet wickets this season I really need to get some more confidence in playing scoring shots, I never looked like getting out on Sunday, but a few more runs would of been nice even though my job was to hold up one end. Any advice would be appreciated!
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One LMS game this season... last week, that I couldn't play in. Other midweek matches got called off. Playing tomorrow night (if the weather holds up!).
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Not my cricket but came across this today from Southern Premier - Div 3 but still a phenominal effort!
http://tottonandeling.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11551210
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31 sixes???? Talk about teeing off!!!
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He has gone crazy! The opening bowler must have needed therapy after that
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he's an ex county pro playing seconds?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Taylor_(English_cricketer)
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Totton and Ealing has one short side, towards a train track!
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I've been asked to bat at number 5 on Saturday for my new club and it just made me think how weird it is that I have almost been perceived as a completely different player compared to my old club where I was used to batting at 8 at best! I don't think I'll be opening the bowling though, which is a shame, fingers crossed I will manage that by half way through the season. Can't wait, just got to hope the rain stays away!
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Shambles of a game last night. Had a re-arranged 10x10 cup game (10 overs per side, everyone has to bowl, batsman have to retire when they reach 20runs and wides/no balls are 4 extras and no extra ball).
We only had 7 players against 11 and we made 147 after our 10 overs only losing 2 wickets with most batsmen making their full 20+. However we were winning as they were about 60 off 6 overs and then they nominated another bowler to bowl who bowled an awful over of wides. Then they decided to take a ruling (as we only had 6 bowlers) that they could take the overs that we didnt have players to bowl for 20runs per over. So we ended up losing as they took the last 3 overs for 60 default runs. Shocking sportsmanship as at least we turned up and gave them a game and then for that to happen was shocking.
We're supposed to be playing them again tonight in a format like T20, so hopefully we'll get revenge (if the rain keeps off). Was a decent game for myself though, opened the batting and made my 20 in 7 balls and then I bowled one over for 7 runs and 2 wickets.
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shouldn't you have agreed the rules before you started?
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The umpires didn't even know the rules to be honest. Mickey Mouse cup, but bit weird how they can choose both to nominate bowlers and then also take the 20runs/over.
Annoying, as we did very well considering we only had 7 players due to players commitments having to play 2 games in 2 days.
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I'd have called them on that.
Actually, to be fair I wouldn't have entered a ten over a side cup to begin with!
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Yeah I know, it's crap.
However we automatically get entered into it. As there aren't many teams to play Divisioned cricket in the evenings around our area so it makes the season last a bit longer.
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I've been asked to bat at number 5 on Saturday for my new club and it just made me think how weird it is that I have almost been perceived as a completely different player compared to my old club where I was used to batting at 8 at best! I don't think I'll be opening the bowling though, which is a shame, fingers crossed I will manage that by half way through the season. Can't wait, just got to hope the rain stays away!
It happens.
When you play at a club you acquire "baggage" and depending on your history it determines how clubs perceive you going forward. Clubs all have different strengths but a perfectly good number 5 could be a tail end charlie at another club if the batting depth is good and the players start is poor. Different captains also have different perceptions. I batted 8/9 as a bowler/batter in my younger years. One season a new captain viewed me as a decent batter, let me bat 6 and I scored 350 league runs @40, 1000 runs in the season. Following year a new captain didn't rate me as highly and I was back to 8/9. Few years later I captained the 3's and scored 750 runs @70 to prove a point.
My thoughts are if you can be honest and say you can bat a bit, change club or drop a team to prove the point.
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he's an ex county pro playing seconds?? [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Taylor_(English_cricketer)[/url]
i don't mean to be a judgemental s.o.b. but what on earth does he think he was doing? what an arrogant idiot to carry on like that. surely after he'd hit the opening bowler for 93 off his 10 he would have realised that the game was a farce. could he not have retired after 150, or 200, or even 250?!
honestly that makes me sick. i remember thinking an old guy at our club was a pr*ck for batting out a 40 over 100 in a friendly against an oppo team full of young kids. i retired at 50 that day ;)
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agree with nsaunders, i'm actually a reasonable seam bowler but have always been posted as a wk/batsman as the club i play for is desperately short of wks. now i'm captain of the sunday team though, i'm gonna bowl as much as i like!
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Yeah its really nice cause I know I can do it but I was at my last club for 11 years since I was 9 so I suppose I was pigeon holed as a bowler who can bat a little bit. But moving clubs to a higher standard too will give me a chance to challenge myself and hopefully I'll score some runs this year and prove a point!
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i don't mean to be a judgemental s.o.b. but what on earth does he think he was doing? what an arrogant idiot to carry on like that. surely after he'd hit the opening bowler for 93 off his 10 he would have realised that the game was a farce. could he not have retired after 150, or 200, or even 250?!
honestly that makes me sick. i remember thinking an old guy at our club was a pr*ck for batting out a 40 over 100 in a friendly against an oppo team full of young kids. i retired at 50 that day ;)
I know David Taylor, big leftie. Holds the record for the most money paid to a non-first class cricketer lol. He's been everywhere - High Wycombe, Henley, Radlett. Big reputation as a hitter and the likes of Radlett were paying him serious money for some one day comp a few years ago.
These kind of records get broken when good batsman face rubbish bowling on small grounds. Ollie Hardacker's knock last season was in similar circumstances, albeit he has less of a reputation. Our guys played against him last season and he wasn't setting the world alight at the correct level.
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Not setting the world alight so much so that he was dropped to the twos evidently!
I'm guessing he'll be back in the ones next week.
Either that or the ones were reained off and they sneaked him in? Either way something a little wrong.
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more likely he doesn't play for them and somebody paid him £200 to turn up and perform. Either way it should be wiped off the record books.
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Selection done this weekend and I'm in the 2's. Bit dissapointed to not make the 1's at my new club seeing as I was in the top 20 run scorers in their league last year, but playing for the 2's this week and I'm gonna have to prove myself!
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Don't worry mate, I'll see if Tom's playing fro Bish 2's. Easy runs
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Don't worry mate, I'll see if Tom's playing fro Bish 2's. Easy runs
Haha good lad! 153 easy runs against them last year ;)
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After 2 Sunday (our only games out 7 senior sat and sun teams) matches into the Saturday leagues this weekend for the 5ths against Englefield Green A. Hopefully I won't be just holding up an end, and will actually be able to play a few more strokes than I have been as of late! Hopefully it'll stay dry as we're on a council pitch that as of yet hasn't been played on and Woking BC in their infinate wisdom had a May Fayre there on Monday!!!
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Had our National cup first round game cancelled and decided on the toss of a coin yesterday. Needless to say, we lost and our cup adventure is over for a year. Looks like Saturday might be cancelled too, and still can't train..... Brilliant!!
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Got roped into playing for the midweek team last night, umpires were not impressed and didn't want us to play but the captains decided that the bowlers could only run up from 5 yards as it was so boggy but the pitch was fine! Went in at 4 was knocking it around nicely until I got ran out backing up, never happened to me before and I think it is quite possibly the worst way to get out! but the rain eventually came two overs later and the umpires very quickly jumped into their cars and drove home. Was just nice to be out in the middle though
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Managed to play my first game of the season on Saturday, opened the batting and scored 51 off 39 balls and took 2-6!
We bowled them out for 97 and we chased it down in 17 overs!
Not a bad start to the season!
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Forecast isn't too bad for the next few days here in Brizzle so looks like I'm playing Phoenix West Indies and Calne. Good times.
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Can't see our game vs portishead being on as pitch simply isn't dry enough to have any work done on it :(
Still clinging onto my average of 96 from last season on a Saturday ;)
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Was down the ground tonight, looked pretty wet and was fairly slippy! Forecast is supposed to be brighter for weekend though fellow Bristolians?
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Playing for the 2s today back on our 'home' pitch albeit on the artificial. Massive thanks to YMCA CC for allowing us to do so as not many clubs would like to.
After rolling the outfield midweek I hope that I did a good enough job and no-one loses any teeth haha. Also give us chance to use our new electronic scoreboard (ooooh)
Good luck everyone today :D
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I scored my first ever 50 today... It feels good...
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I scored my first ever 50 today... It feels good...
brilliant really well done!
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Thank you guys.. I've never met you but it's nice to be congratulated by fellow cricketers on this forum and wish I'd never had that 22 year break between school and playing the beautiful game again...
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We batted way too cautiously, I came in at 5 and got caught for 4 trying to push the run rate, we ended up all out for 87 off 30 odd overs. The oppo came out guns blazing and were on 40-0 off 5, I came on and got a wicket with my first ball and ended with figures of 5.4-1-17-1 but we lost. And I forgot to pack suncream(as I didn't think it would be on) and got majorly burnt :( Not a good day.
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My season has been good from a team perspective. 3 matches, 3wins.
The first game we bowled the opposition out for 82. I batted 8 went in with seven to win... And bagged a first ball duck, I chopped on.
Second game we won be 6 wickets. I went in at 4 and batted slowly to 5 3rd ball after drinks i prodded a catch to short mid wicket.
Game 3 a T20 game. Bowled the opposition out for 52, opened, my partner got 35 not out and I got 10 not out. Not a good season so far with the bat. But hopefully ill get a few runs tomorrow and maybe even a few wickets.
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First game today, hit 14 got out stupidly chipping to mid off when set, top scored in an awful 66 all out from 45 overs, lost be 2 wickets vs hallam cc 4ths
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Played our first league game today, and won! Unbelievable game really, batted first and hit 133 (I opened and hit 14, got myself out just as I was feeling good, chipping one to the bowler after it stuck in the pitch). Bowled Weston Super Mare out for 127, after they were 90-5. Played amazingly well as a team, with no-one really having a stand-out game. Unbeaten so far this season (unless you count the toss of a coin lol)
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Good game in general for the team today, we bowled first and the oppo scored 140-9 from 45 overs. I bowled the final over and took a wicket and went for 1 run. Then opened the batting, hit a 4 second ball through the covers, the next ball was a half tracker which I played a vertical pull shot and was caught at mid-off..Fuming!
We slumped to 47-7, and managed to win by 1 wicket! The last pair put on 32 for the last wicket
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.... hasn't started yet. Damn weather.
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Really happy with my cricket today, nothing amazing, but still good.
Played for the 2's against Ombersley 2's. Didn't have a bowl, but was trusted with the entire leg side at one point. Took a quality catch, best I've ever taken in the deep. Went VERY high, swirling, had to cover about 20m and then dive slightly to get it. Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y :)
Batting came in at 8 with 10 overs to go in hopeless situation on a nicely turning but very unpredictable track. Stuck around for 7 overs, holding off some good bowling, before being yorked for 7. BUT- It stopped a collapse ;) Some Worcestershire bloke was behind the stumps :)
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Called up to keep for the firsts, spent 40 of the 50 overs standing up to the stumps so I'm knackered now. Took a catch, dropped a Sharp chance off a medium pacer.
Batted at 10: got a golden. We lost.
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Well, my first year as caption this year. Last week, first game, bowled them out for 149. We were all out for 57.
Second game today, we were all out for 56. We had them 10-4 before they hit it off 5 down.
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I wish I was captain so I could bowl myself I took 32 wickets with best figures of 7-2-18-6 and I haven't bowled once in our first four games? Can't understand why
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Well I bowled myself 12 overs last week as I had to. Bowled well though. Today I bowled the first over, took 2 wickets in the second over of the match, but couldn't get through my action, with a few wides. So brought myself off
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Good win for my old side Ilminster today. Great start to thier prem 1 campaign against a very good Frocester side http://westofengland.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11360211
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Sam Spurway, wasn't he something to do with the Somerset setup sometime?
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Yes mate he played a few games for them and did very well actually, think he got a couple 50's and an 80. Odd circumstances why he left but can't remember them. Helluva player, just not as favoured as Cazzard. Prince Louis is something else mind as well, if he scores a bucketload of runs again, they might do very well.
How did Westlands do today?
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Crap day, we scored 210 all out after having 17 runs on the board after 10 overs but recovered well but never really formed any partnerships. They got them in the 44th over for the loss of 7 wickets.
I played a crap shot to a spinner and got bowler when goin in at #4 and dropped 2 catches as well so shocking day all round really!
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Rolled my arm over today... 12-9-9-3! Only 3 scoring shots, 1 of which was a snick between keeper and slips for 4! Rolled the oppo for 77, knocked it off 2 down
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Tom when such happen, what you do is throw your RAW Elite out of the window and poor guys like me or Liam-SCCC would fetch that ;)
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played four, won four(got out in silly ways, erm, four)
oppo, seeing the best batting wickey within 100 miles, put us in despiet only having seven..even with a couple of silly shots we ran up 296 before declaring....
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Played 1st game yesterday got 14 opening played + missed for 15 overs. 140ao after being stuck in oppo got them for 5 got 1-16 off 4overs
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dropped down to the 2's yesterday as our 1's game was abandoned, we won the toss put them in on a slow wet track. They managed 158 before being all out, we started off very well and was at 100-0 before losing our first wicket i went in at 3 got an easy 10 before getting stumped. we then collapsed to 120-7 but scraped through with one wicket to go.
We have a village game today and im sitting at work staring out the window at blue skies :(
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I wish I was captain so I could bowl myself I took 32 wickets with best figures of 7-2-18-6 and I haven't bowled once in our first four games? Can't understand why
Maybe it is the right time to remind your captain that you can do a good job for the team, before the match though
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or ask to be dropped to the team below, or change clubs. Those measures normally get the attention of the captain lol
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2 more wins for us. First laboured to 158-8 on a (No Swearing Please) wicket on Barwick. Nothing bounced above shin height, imho those wickets are worse than seaming greentops or wet flyers. You simply rule out 50% of the shots and any idiot can bang it half way down the track without fear of going into the field. We knocked them over for 104 eventually. My contribution was 11* in a stand of 50 for the 9th wicket. Didn't bowl, just as well really as everything would've gone on the floor lol. 2nd XI smacked up 266-4 on an "unplayable deck that was underwater 2 days ago" - to quote the oppo when they tried to call it off twice!. Bowled the oppo out for 79ao - I wonder if they weren't keen to play lol
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Derby day yesterday, batted at 4. Felt ok, nothing better. Had a good partnership of around 50. They bowled 40 odd extras in the innings. Only had 5 before getting triggered, batting outside the crease, with a stride, hitting the top hat, going down leg. 1 appeal from the bowler and I was on my way.
When we were in the field, the same ump tried to no ball one of our blokes for 'not bowling within the correct area'. When I asked why, he said you foot has to be inside the line that is marked out to indicate a wide. Village.
Playing against hit4six today.
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First game of the season yesterday, opened and got one before trying to smash a big cover drive off a slow bolwer and nicking to slip :(
We ended up with 250-7 declared and the oppo never tried to get it instead settling for some batting points and plodding on to 150-7.
Managed to get a stumping by throwing the ball at the stumps which is something that I have been trying to do for years so quite happy about that
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Well after finishing last season with no wins to our name in the 2nd XI league and most of our games having 8 players I was hoping for a large improvement. Which didn't help when out first game was the team that came 2nd the year before and we had 8 players. Safe to say we last but two wins later we are looking good.
The team is playing well. Me not so good with some dropped catches (shocking) and a few runs not out. Didn't bat this week, but I would rather not bat and win, than bat and lose!
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Match on Saturday was cancelled and today I bowled ok but got no wickets. I also got my first ever Golden duck after being bowled off my pads, I'm really struggling with inswinging delivery's on my leg's. In our 1s game today they got to 312 off 40 over's with one of our guys getting a ton after 20 overs, the oppo then chased it down with a couple of balls to go with one of there players getting 180 odd.
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county game today good result, poo day for me personally though, we god 145 off 45 on a decent track, I went in at 4, 5th ball got one that pitched on middle, seamed to leg/down leg, I put a big stride in hit right at the top of the top hat and got triggered the second the letter 'h' left the bowlers mouth, even the oppo said it wasnt out! then we went out to field, and I took a catch but dropped one, and we knocked them off for 113 of 38 overs or something right result, crap game personally
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Yesterday was a good day beating Tom's 3rd XI by 8 wickets. I managed to get 2-32 off 7 but had a catch dropped off my bowling and missed stumping :( got 26 with the bat before picking mid-off out. New guy who joined us this year got 89* and looks really good which is a positive for us.
Today was a similar story winning by around 70-80 runs. We batted first got 203-5 off 40 overs, I got 66* in a partnership with my mate of 127. Unfortunately I pulled my thigh setting off for my first single so it was a bit of stand there and hit it after that. A bad moment in the game where I hit one straight and the bowlers got finger tips to it and stayed down, as I got down his end I checked if he was ok only to find his finger bone poking through the skin, not a nice sight really.
We managed to bowl them out relatively quickly after dislodging the openers, I got 4-1-6-3 with two dropped catches today! Saves me buy a jug though.
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Also forgot to say that the game on Saturday was stopped mid way through due to a shetland pony coming onto the ground.
I've seen it all now
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won our 1st XI Cup game today despite only have 4 1st teamers and playing a team 2 divisions higher. We scored 143-9 off 40 overs and the oppo were 76-2 off 15 overs before committing suicide to collapse to 134ao. Myself and our other left arm spinner were the main destroyers taking 7-67 on a blameless but slow deck. Too many big shots when only 2 an over was needed, funny the number of times these things happen :)
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Our game got cancelled, absolutely (no swering please) fuming! We were meant to play on one of our "home" grounds that the council is supposed to look after, instead they looked at the weather on Thursday and decided that it was to wet and cancelled everything on Friday morning! I went down after work and it was perfectly playable had the lazy idiots used a bit of common sense and looked at the weather forcast! >:( >:( >:(.
Ended up having a very useful net against the bowling machine and then a not so useful one against some of our bowlers, and a couple of beers whilst watching the 2nds cruise to a 60 run win!
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Kept for the 1st team Saturday, only 2 byes and took a good catch standing up to our ex-pro seamer. 40 overs of standing up were tiring! Got a golden with the bat though and we lost heavily.
Sunday we played a team from the league above (South Wales Prem) and bowled them out for 60, winning by 10 wickets.
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played four, won four (sadly, didn't make much more than four... :( )
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Rather than writing my matches up on here, I will just pasted the links to the match reports in. Don't want to write it up after I've already done it for the paper!
Here's my pre season preview
http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/sport/cricket/9682274.Toohill_eyes_a_competitive_summer/
And the first game
http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/sport/cricket/9694995.Much_to_ponder_for_Toohill___s_men/
Second game (from Saturday) will be out Wednesday
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Played 3rd IX saturday after being dropped from 2nd for no reason >:( . Opened the batting on a slow damp wicket. I struggled with timing and was too early on most shots. The outfield wasn't cut because the groundsmen deemed it was too wet to use the big lawn mower so no value for shots either. Should have easily got 4 fours, ended up caught trying to hit the spinner out of the park. I made 16. we struggled and were allout 123. Tea was rubbish too >:(. We then bowled the opposition out for 53. It would have been even better if I hadn't spilt 3 catches. The ball kept following the fat one :D. I bowled 1.1 overs gave a bye and took a wicket. Back to the drawing board.
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Had a comfortable win on Saturday on a pitch that just looked like the outfield had been cut and rolled. We scored 214-6 I batted 5 and scored 16 and got out trying to hit the bowler back over his head but instead it just went straight up in the air and was caught. Bowled 9 overs 0-22 felt terrible, no rhythm to my bowling with no pace and had two catches drop just short of the slips, hope I feel a bit better next week but we did bowl them out for just under 140.
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Won by 10 wickets on Saturday, I lost the toss and they decided to bat first or a spongy looking pitch! We bowled them out for 125 and I took 2 wickets for 19 runs off 8 overs!
I opened the batting and scored 53* and we chased the target down in under 23 overs! A comprehensive 10 wicket victory and back to back 50's for me!
Happy days!
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Good work Iwan, which bat are you using? The GM?
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Damn weather. Nets tonight are now cancelled... Great season I'm having so far!
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My game got cancelled Saturday, and was ment to be playing against Canners team in a sunday league but that also got cancelled >:(
So managed to get a game in the Sunday 2's. Was going to treat this as a run out as i have only had a couple of nets. Had them 90-6, and we needed to ''tone'' down the cricket and get some run givers on. I came on to 'launch' some grenades, hmmmmmmmmmm, this pie chucking is E.A.S.Y. Tried my hardest to give some runs but ended up 4 overs 1 maiden 2 wickets for 12 runs, and when i say grenades i had to get clearance from all London airports.
They ended up getting 170-9 from 40 overs. We got 171-3 from 28 overs, and i got a cheeky 4 not out from 2 balls. Ok not a great test or runout, but a game never the less.
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i got a cheeky 4 not out from 2 balls
Unbelievable innings! Great start to the season.
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Had a game in the Sunday 2's yesterday after Saturday's game was rained off. I opened the batting and got 21 from 36 balls. We won quite comfortably I think it was by about 90 runs.
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Unbelievable innings! Great start to the season.
Its already being talked about as one of the innings of the season already, it had class, well paced and a number of shot selections in the innings!!
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I have played:-
4 League games
2 Cup games
1 Friendly
Got a 2nd XI Cup t20 tomorrow as well. Had 2 Sunday games and a t20 friendly called off. Been playing since the 7th April :-)
Anyone beat 8 played so far?
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Still on 0 played here!
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hit 81* today!
I'll believe it when I see some proof.
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I'll believe it when I see some proof.
Ease up fella, no need to be so abrupt and blunt!
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Steady on gents... I'd be pleased with a game at this stage of the season - not had one yet!
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Well sorry but normally everyone gives a little match report.
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My game got cancelled Saturday, and was ment to be playing against Canners team in a sunday league but that also got cancelled >:(
So managed to get a game in the Sunday 2's. Was going to treat this as a run out as i have only had a couple of nets. Had them 90-6, and we needed to ''tone'' down the cricket and get some run givers on. I came on to 'launch' some grenades, hmmmmmmmmmm, this pie chucking is E.A.S.Y. Tried my hardest to give some runs but ended up 4 overs 1 maiden 2 wickets for 12 runs, and when i say grenades i had to get clearance from all London airports.
They ended up getting 170-9 from 40 overs. We got 171-3 from 28 overs, and i got a cheeky 4 not out from 2 balls. Ok not a great test or runout, but a game never the less.
i hope this game will be re arranged?
i cant believe you lost to orsett on Sat, whats going on?
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i hope this game will be re arranged?
i cant believe you lost to orsett on Sat, whats going on?
Simply gave too many runs away from poor bowling. Think we bowled in the range of 10-15 extras and dropped two catches. Batting wise, it wasnt a bad performance, need to tighten on the bowling front.
I can speak to our Sunday captain to see about arranging the sunday game again as i feel your wicket may have a bit in it for little old me ;)
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Good work Iwan, which bat are you using? The GM?
Using the GM in the nets at the moment! Not a bad bat to be fair, it will do as a net bat!
As for matches, I'm using a salix which is a beautiful bat!
Would like to post pictures of my bat on here but I can't access any photo uploading websites in work!
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And the match report from saturdays game
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/cricket/9705706.Langford_rattles_Bridport/
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Using your talisman was he?? Lol
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Yep! Borrowed it whilst he was knocking in his M&H. That Talisman is now back in my possession and after an awesome net with it tonight. It will be used at the weekend
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Played today, was a fairly boring game, we got 249 or something and skittled them for 51, took 3-12 from 5.
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Got well and truly destroyed yesterday!
http://chard.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11360415
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If anyone's got a stick of rhubarb they wana swap for a nice bat, I think I'd be better off with that. Batting and bowling like a massive helmet.
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Got well and truly destroyed yesterday!
[url]http://chard.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11360415[/url]
Saw you whacked it though yesterday mate, good work!
I suffered from the old classic 6 and out yesterday. Was on about 3 or 4 and received a fell toss on leg stump which I hit over the longest boundary on the ground for 6, then the next ball was exactly the same and was caught by the man on the mid wicket boundary! Lost by 3 wickets in the end after hitting 184. Ex-Glouscester pro Tim Hancock smashed a brilliant 79 for the oppo
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Bloody Tim Hancock lol!
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He's just too good! Was enjoyable watching him bat though, until he ruined my thumb when he whacked it to me along the ground at cover..
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My torrid season continues. Got a text on Friday saying I was called into the 1's due to a few cry offs. Was initially a bit sulky about it, as with a batting average of 8, no bowling average (due to no wickets yet) but an economy rate at around 6, I clearly wasn't being picked on merit. In my eyes there ought to have been 2-3 players ahead of me in the pecking order.
Anyway, it transpired that we really were pretty short, and in the circumstances maybe I was the next best person available. Still wasn't really looking forward to it, as was expecting to bat 7-8.
Anyway, after we warmed up, the skipper took me to one side and told me he wanted to open the batting! Bonus! Felt slightly guilty, since there were probably at least 2 other guys in the team who deserved the opportunity more than me, but at the same time really chuffed, as opening for the 1's is what I'm aiming to do by the end of the season.
Anyway, we lost the toss and they chose to bowl. I was in a much better mood now and I think it was reflected in my fielding. I threw myself around a fair bit and made some decent diving stops.
They posted 205-8 from 45 overs, which given that the pitch was flatter than an unlucky hedgehog, didn't seem like an unattainable target.
Unfortunately my stay at the crease lasted 2 balls. With me and my opening partner having hit a single a piece I was adjudged caught behind from the 3rd delivery of the innings. Bit of a funny one really. Was a good ball, and there was definitely a 'click' at the right moment, but I honestly didn't think I nicked it. In fact I felt I'd missed it by a fair bit, but 11 fielders, my batting partner, all the spectators plus most importantly the umpire disagreed :(
I assume it will be a swift return to the 2's next week. I'm 25-4 for the season now. Feel like I'm batting better then at any point bin the last 3-4 years. Why can't I score runs!!!!
We ended up woefully short on 134-9, partly due to good bowling (to be fair they are probably the best bowling attack in the league) but also due to some poor umpiring too.
Have to say it felt really luckless too. They had their fair share of runs scored with false shots that kept looping into gaps and mis-hits that evaded out fielders, whereas when we batted everything seemed to go to hand plus they seemed to get more decisions.
Oh well. At least the 2's won!
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Well village first rounds were today. We had long lee cc. An Ayrtek lid and a fatbat on show from the oppo. We were very very poor but pulled it together and got the job done. How did everyone else get on
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I assume it will be a swift return to the 2's next week. I'm 25-4 for the season now. Feel like I'm batting better then at any point bin the last 3-4 years. Why can't I score runs!!!!
I'm the same mate, feel like everything I'm doing is good, but can't seem to score runs feel in the best nick I've ever been in. I'm 14 - 3 lol
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Need to stop rush of blood running myself out.
Having pulled a short ball for 4 + played a nice drive for 2.
Lean on a cover drive speeding to short boandary fielder just cuts it out decide on second. Get sent back but not on time + get run out.
Not best pleased as there player umpiring gave leg bye when there batsman padded up moved knee further to leg side + bat still in air.
Then allow runner for their batsman only for umpire to run off to come as runner. As obviously quickest. They were 5 5own so othe choices.
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Finally played our first game yesterday. Fielded first and oppo got 184, should have been a few less as some our fielding was poor. Kept ok, no missed chances but annoyed with 2 sets of 4 byes >:(
Fell 16 short in the chase which was disappointing with 5 of us including me making the 20s but not going on. Stuck a full toss from the worlds biggest pie bowler down long on's throat which was frustrating as the new Redback was going well. Should really have got the runs as the bowling was pretty friendly but after having had no friendlies or outdoor nets due to the weather we were understandably rusty
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After all the batting work i'm putting in at the nets and with Buzz, I can't get above 9 in the order and I can't get a bat! We've been 5 down and 6 down so far.
Keep getting picked to bowl my ridiculous lobs though!?!
It's a funny old world!
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Got 19 yesterday off 16 balls for the 1s and a catch, did not bowl but we won a good game which is good. Caught legside by the keeper from a spinner.
Won today too, got 42 from 29 before being stumped, got 3 wickets for maybe 30+ from 6 overs. Haven't looked at the scorecard as had to shoot off.
Still unbeaten this season :D
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3rd game of the season and our 2nd win although a very ordinary day for me personally however i did contribute with a stand of 40. I made 19 with the bat which was nothing special however it was a very wet deck and not easy in any way as it was slow however no seam which helped. Bowling i got through 10 overs 0-15 was my figures which were nothing special although i hit a good line i was too full so i kept it tight but didn't look like ripping through them.
I haven't bowled or had a knock in more than 3 weeks due to the weather in the north east so here's hoping it will dry up, a lot of games up here were off so im happy with a win although im struggling a bit today as it was so so cold yesterday.
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I got a
(http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx165/d7bow/7d3dd235.jpg)
Yesterday
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At least you didn't get a (http://s2.thisnext.com/media/230x230_no_border/Gold-Duck-bank_0CFDADF4.jpg)
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At least you didn't get a ([url]http://s2.thisnext.com/media/230x230_no_border/Gold-Duck-bank_0CFDADF4.jpg[/url])
I did :(
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Tough times my man. only one way from here! (just don't get another golden)
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Tough times my man. only one way from here! (just don't get another golden)
First one in 5 years or so, hopefully there's not another one due for a few more years
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Played Monty's Beard's lot, ended up winning by 3 wkts in a very low scoring game. Batted second came in at 5 got 0 :(, bowled top of off stump, good ball but not happy at all!!! On the plus side we won all 6 Saturday games for the first time in the clubs history, and got to watch a thrilling finale to the 1st's game against Bank of England. Shame the Sunday seconds couldn't get a win to make it 8 from 8, but I suppose 7/8 isn't to bad!
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I did :(
Me too! I hit it, then got given out.
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I've hit 1 run in 3 innings on Saturdays this year and 20 in 2 on a sunday
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Not a bad start to my season, hit 44 on saturday. Averaging 45 in all comps at the moment (it won't last long).
I've also been taking wickets, so that's a brucey. Best thing about this weekend is that I got a woman at works husband out bowled.
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22,44*,17,29,38 and 9 so far this season in all comps.
The 44* and 38 in the league which is the most important
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im not to happy with my start to the season :(
ive felt really really good as well just been getting out silly ways :(
on sat ive had
0,4*,20,16
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Overall I've had : 8*, 59, 26, 66*, 19, 5 and 42. Those in bold are league games. Hopefully get a few more on a Saturday
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First league game of the season and ran out of energy (grossly unfit) and edged behind on 94...
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Finally got off the mark wicket wise this season, got 3-47 off 7 (rather expensive) but at least I've got some wickets now!
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Managed to get in 2 games this weekend.
Saturdays game, home to Ferndown Wayfarers. They managed to knock up 172-6 from their 50 overs, with Eric Linge (http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/296815.html) scoring a fairly impressive 50. We then knocked them off in 34 overs for the loss of only 4 wickets, I was scheduled to come in next, and didn't bowl. Still happy for a team win though! :D And here's a scorecard for the game - http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11469896
Sundays game, home to Mere, completely different story, we bowled first and got them all out for 61, a pitch that was seaming here there and everywhere. Then opened the batting for the first time for my sunday team in a while, and got adjudged to be caught behind, when I got beat by an absolute jaffa! So recorded my first duck of the season, having only faced 2 balls. And we were bowled all out for 21. With 10 ducks in the whole game. And i'm still wicketless for the season! :(
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Legger, who do you play for? I've got a game against Mere on Wednesday and heard the track is awful these days.
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I only play for Thornford on sundays, we were part of the Three Counties League, but backed out and they still wanted a friendly. I remember playing on their track last season, it was alright in stages, but other than that it wasn't great at all!
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Saturday I got a grand total of 1, Was run out, It was a poor call for a run on my part, Oppo batted first hit 249 for 8, We managed to get it with 3 down and 10 overs remaining. Number 3 scored 103, Number 4 smased 73 from 34 balls to take us to victory,
Sunday I got a duck, Was given out LBW when the ball pitched outside leg, But thats how it goes, I bowled, Figures were 5-3-2-4 It even included a double wicket maiden. However I feel the pitch took spin bowling very well.
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On the plus side, we're still unbeaten and I got a decent 70 on Saturday.
On the negative, it was one of the most pointless games of cricket I';ve ever played in - stuck the oppo in on a greenish pitch, turned out to do a bit but not much and they made 240 in their 52; they then set the field so deep expceting us to try and hit sixes to chase their score and griped when we would play patsy! Needing 150 off 20, I hit a full toss through midwicket for four and their last close catcher went out to the rope!
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Now thats what i call a conservative skipper!!!
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You could argue that we weren't much better in that we let ourselves get bogged down and they're under no obligation to make life easy for us. But when you have a fielder dropping deep every time a shot is played it does seem silly to then sledge the batsman for being negative!
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Played Charlie-15 at the weekend, low scoring would be an understatment! We were 14/4 at one point! I'd love to say I helped but my Boycott'esque 8 from 38 balls (I maintain I was slowing the game down!) probably didn't help that much.....
Good game though Charlie and a rather nice piece of willow (Shark) you have there. See you in the return fixture
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Just to add insult to injury, the scorer has me down as 0 at the weekend
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Managed to get in 2 games this weekend.
Saturdays game, home to Ferndown Wayfarers. They managed to knock up 172-6 from their 50 overs, with Eric Linge ([url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/296815.html[/url]) scoring a fairly impressive 50. We then knocked them off in 34 overs for the loss of only 4 wickets, I was scheduled to come in next, and didn't bowl. Still happy for a team win though! :D And here's a scorecard for the game - [url]http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11469896[/url]
Sundays game, home to Mere, completely different story, we bowled first and got them all out for 61, a pitch that was seaming here there and everywhere. Then opened the batting for the first time for my sunday team in a while, and got adjudged to be caught behind, when I got beat by an absolute jaffa! So recorded my first duck of the season, having only faced 2 balls. And we were bowled all out for 21. With 10 ducks in the whole game. And i'm still wicketless for the season! :(
Eric is a great bloke, plays hard and fair, he knows when to turn on the flare. Those green shoes are beauts!
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We played Christchurch on Saturday, Won the toss and elected to bat. An average start for the team, I went in at 5 this week and got a golden!
Given out LBW, and I'm still 99% certain I hit it! I wasn't best pleased. Didn't bowl either, and I'm not sure why, the last few games of last year I was opening the bowling!
Sunday was a farce.
Bournemouth, (The biggest club in the Dorset leagues) pulled out of the game 2 hours before the start.
I've never known that from anyone. The teas were made by the mother in law, had to call all the players nursing sore heads from the night before from one of our boys birthdays.
Alright we get 20 points from it but thats not the point being made here. They will now get: 40 points deducted, which at the moment leaves them on minus 33 points! The will get a £30 fine from the league and have to pay us for Pitch preparation and teas that were made.
I can't say I was best pleased.
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don't blame you. Win or lose you always want to play. We had the same thing with Leeds Trinity Uni, never even showed or apologised. They even checked 45 mins before the game to see it was on and just didn't show. I am now chasing them for compensation, I've even tried to arrange more games to offset the cost but they don't care.
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A similar thing happened with our 1's yesterday. They turned up to their game to find out that the team they were due to play had double booked and they'd travelled for nothing.
I had quite a bad day Saturday. I lost the toss and we were put in to bat. I then proceeded to be bowled first ball of the game, which didn't bounce more than an inch. We eventually set them 154.
My day then got worse as 5 of our fielders were less than interested, especially the other keeper so I let him take over the gloves after about 10 overs and I then dropped 2 dollys.
At drinks they were 88 without loss. So I had a little bit of a rant at the team to up there game and it worked. The visitors went from 88-0 to 120 all out.
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My old man has been at it again with his bloody flat tracks. If you are a batsman then go and play at Marlow lol
Thursday - 299 v 300-6 (45 overs each)
Saturday - 339-3 (42 overs) v 275-9 (58 overs)
That was on the pitch he re-used from the previous weekend - 3 days cricket by the Saturday. Sunday he went for a different track for the minor counties game and Staffs got 235, Bucks did it for 5 (should've been 2 but they mucked around slogging the final few runs when they had loads of time).
He says he just cuts and rolls it!.
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Played Charlie-15 at the weekend, low scoring would be an understatment! We were 14/4 at one point! I'd love to say I helped but my Boycott'esque 8 from 38 balls (I maintain I was slowing the game down!) probably didn't help that much.....
Good game though Charlie and a rather nice piece of willow (Shark) you have there. See you in the return fixture
You didn't bat badly and did exactly what you guys needed at the time! It was the 1 ball you bowled that I found amusing!!!
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Got a Hatrick today in a t20 and it was very nearly a double hatrick as I just missed the edge of the the guy batting by around an inch. Other than the hatrick over I bowled pretty badly and got 3-28 off 4 overs with 1 dropped catch. Went out to open and got 2 runs before being clean bowled by a decent late swinging inswinger. I'm having a problem this season with inswinging deliverys on a good to full length on the stumps and have been bowled 3 times by delivery's like this.
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I suffered from the old classic 6 and out yesterday. Was on about 3 or 4 and received a fell toss on leg stump which I hit over the longest boundary on the ground for 6, then the next ball was exactly the same and was caught by the man on the mid wicket boundary! Lost by 3 wickets in the end after hitting 184. Ex-Glouscester pro Tim Hancock smashed a brilliant 79 for the oppo
Got back Saturday morning for the weekend so went up and watched the game. Tim is just class our 3 and 4 getting ducks didn't help though. Got a bit close in the end, but our 1s look quite strong this year.
Ended up playing a game on Sunday, hit 77 and got 2 wickets. Good weekend for the club all the senior sides won!
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I'm having a problem this season with inswinging deliverys on a good to full length on the stumps and have been bowled 3 times by delivery's like this.
play the on or straight drive ......... im having a similar issue but its hitting my pad and then hitting the stump. Im trying to wrok it through mid wicket with a straight leg and it isnt working.
Playing straight should sort it out.
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play the on or straight drive ......... im having a similar issue but its hitting my pad and then hitting the stump. Im trying to wrok it through mid wicket with a straight leg and it isnt working.
Playing straight should sort it out.
This did help me tonight in the nets and I didn't get out bowled or lbw but I think some of it is simply down to match nerves and the added pressure of being out in the middle especially when opening as the ball is swinging alot more.
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First Saturday match of the season and we had ten men. Having been put in the field, we held them to 132 for 9 off their 46 overs. I ended up with figures of 12-2-14-3.
Then we batted. One of our openers retired on 52 as he had to leave and then no one else rose to the occasion. IWent in at 9, the guy at the other end got bowled and after the new batsman had faced four balls I realised I would have to have a go. Sadly this meant misfiring a shortish one back to the bowler. A stupid shot when we had a slim chance of winning. Very angry with myself
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Well that was an interesting game. We bowled first and they got 209-4 after 35 overs then declared. We then batted, got 36 all out, not a very good batting display. I felt like I was going well on 3, then their opener bowled a peach of a ball, pitched on leg and hit the off stump bail. At least we got home earlier eh :D
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First win at my new club. Bowles 5 balls 2 wickets and one run, that being a wide.
Bowles the oppo out for 53 on a not so nice deck.
Batted 4 got 9 and then mistimed a full toss straight to the fielder gutted! At the pub by 4 though top stuff, lovely sunburn to match as well
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Another game, another good personal batting display, and another loss. Batted first, hit 217-5, they won by 6 wickets in the 46th over. Richard(!) Coughtrie of Gloucestershire hit 46 off not man and then they cruised home!
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quiet day for me. Oppo stuck us in and we got 308-2 in 45 overs. Should've been 400+ but our opener blocked his way to 42 off 33 overs. I was never in any danger of taking my shorts off before tea lol. Pagey smacked 119* in the second half of the innings, one for the honours board. They ground out 90ao in 42.4 overs, pretty tedious stuff. Enhanced by economy rate with 5-2-4-2 towards the end when I eventually did something.
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Involved in my first ever tie. Opened the batting and reached 70-0, before slumping to 146 ao in 42 overs. They got off to a flyer, but managed to reign them back despite two horrendous umpiring decisions, one lbw not given for "a big stride" on a deck that had been keeping low all day, and an edge that i had to dive for which wasnt given! They were crusing when their pro went down to lap sweep and was caught brilliantly at short fine leg, one of the best catches ive ever seen! we then got them back to about 130-7, however they got to 146 eight down, when our opening bowler clean bowled their 10 and the umpire (other end) gunned their number 11! On in cricket
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quiet day for me. Oppo stuck us in and we got 308-2 in 45 overs. Should've been 400+ but our opener blocked his way to 42 off 33 overs. I was never in any danger of taking my shorts off before tea lol. Pagey smacked 119* in the second half of the innings, one for the honours board. They ground out 90ao in 42.4 overs, pretty tedious stuff. Enhanced by economy rate with 5-2-4-2 towards the end when I eventually did something.
who got rest of runs?
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Our game was such a farce today I'm not sure I can find the words to describe it. Words used by team mates include least enjoyable game ever, pointless and an absolute waste of time. Suffice to say we lost, managed to toe a full toss straight to a fielder for the second week in a row and kept like someone who had never kept before :(
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My abysmal season continued with a blob today. We were all out for 99. Opposition knocked them off for 2.
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WE WON! Full report to follow!
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Haha well done mate, always good to get that first win on the board
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Lost today on a belter of a track I got 0 lbw but according to a bloke (plus all of our team and 10 of there's who did not appeal) it was the worst decision he'd seen in 45 years of playing cricket so feel little hard done by as on a bouncy track I came down wicket 3 yards and ball hit me just below knee roll and im 6ft4 then ump gives me saying its plum nice
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Scored 4. Bowled 4 overs for 12 runs, the batsman didn't score any off my bowling. Was all extras :/
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got called up for my 1's debut today, very very shocked only being 14! they chose to bat, and got 196 ao, there opener was a bit of a shot a ball merchant but it worked well and he got 86 before playing a sweep to a peach of a ball that hit the top of off stump. So we hadnt been set a huge target, we all thought-easily do-able if we bat sensibly, needless to say...it wasnt that simple....after 2 overs we were 0-2...not a great start...in came our 4-one of the best batsmen in the league has scored something like 10000 runs i think, came in looks set, then gets bowled, again not great, when I get it, we are something like 60-7 off 22 overs Hugh and I, end up batting untill the 42nd over, before I go for 31, to an absolutely stunning catch (Jimmy Anderson eat your heart out!) the guy must have dived about 5ft in the air. eventually we close out the game for a losing draw I was well chuffed
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Batted first, put 180 on, I got 3 batting at 10 and tried to smash their quick over midwicket, clipped top of off, I thought it would get up more. Humph. Fielding was poor, 12-2-50-2, bowling at 2 bloody lefties for most of it, I just cannot bowl to them! Nightmare. They knocked it off 5 down.
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Lost chasing 203 to win bowled out for 174. I was bowled for 10 opening saw the ball up there. Tried to hit over mid on missed it bowled leg stump must stop these rushes of blood.
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Finally batted for the first time this season! I was captaining a team with 6 x14 year-olds in a league game, so a very unpleasant experience as really was a case of 'men against boys' but I'm proud of all my youngsters as they really battled hard in the field to restict oppo to 200 off 54 overs.
Sadly we weren't up to it with bat, subsiding to 102 all out, 2 overs off the draw!
Yours truly managed a streaky 30 from number 9 - twatting the seamers, but all at sea against the wily old leg-spinner :)
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Finally batted for the first time this season! I was captaining a team with 6 x14 year-olds in a league game, so a very unpleasant experience as really was a case of 'men against boys' but I'm proud of all my youngsters as they really battled hard in the field to restict oppo to 200 off 54 overs.
Sadly we weren't up to it with bat, subsiding to 102 all out, 2 overs off the draw!
Yours truly managed a streaky 30 from number 9 - twatting the seamers, but all at sea against the wily old leg-spinner :)
good work fattus, thought you were going to open?
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who got rest of runs?
Ian Rodgers 70, Smyth 42, Gazzard 57* - I think you've only played with Gazzard. 1s won - 268-7 in 45, filo 50, ash 50, ifti 76* in 37 balls, Old Leos 40ao - Will 4-17, Ifti 4-13
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good work fattus, thought you were going to open?
Couldn't bring myself to do it - looked at chasing 200 of 45 overs and thought I might have to have a slap lower down - sadly I cam in at 40-7 so that (No Swearing Please) that idea!
Wish I had opened now!
How many did you get? - we have targets to meet you know!
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Lost today on a belter of a track I got 0 lbw but according to a bloke (plus all of our team and 10 of there's who did not appeal) it was the worst decision he'd seen in 45 years of playing cricket so feel little hard done by as on a bouncy track I came down wicket 3 yards and ball hit me just below knee roll and im 6ft4 then ump gives me saying its plum nice
Same happened to me roco, annoying when i've been waiting weeks for a good track!
Least i got a few wickets to make up for it :)
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after that net against spin the other day too fattus.... argh. you should have come in sooner than 9!
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Couldn't bring myself to do it - looked at chasing 200 of 45 overs and thought I might have to have a slap lower down - sadly I cam in at 40-7 so that (No Swearing Please) that idea!
Wish I had opened now!
How many did you get? - we have targets to meet you know!
just the 55 yesterday, gotta start converting... otherwise buzz will be giving me a severe telling off
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funny thing happened in my game yesterday some guy caught caught out off a no ball but he didn't realize it was a no ball he was walking off angry when ups shouted him back so our fielder who caught it threw it to the keeper and ran him out he was peeved off then haha
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funny thing happened in my game yesterday some guy caught caught out off a no ball but he didn't realize it was a no ball he was walking off angry when ups shouted him back so our fielder who caught it threw it to the keeper and ran him out he was peeved off then haha
that isn't out, the ball would be dead. if he was given out the umpire is wrong
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We played on a road, the m3 i believe,
Lost the toss oppo chose to bat, we restricted them to 289/4 from 50 overs, we were chuffed as we thought 300 was par, we went out to bat knocked them off with with 14 balls to spare and only 3 down, our opener batted through for a brilliant 125*.........beer tasted sweet last night
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Lost our third of three t20 matches this season chasing for the third time yesterday!
I think our Capt has lost all three tosses so far and we let the oppo reach a score they never looked like achieving after 12 overs.. I opened scoring 23 with the first outing of a hell4leather 666 5* purchased off a forum member...probably didn't score quick enough though and need to get in line more and time better on an unpredictable wicket. Unfortunately, cracked the toe on the outside edge for the third time this season!?! but it's not serious like the others...
However, we only had 9 men yesterday.. confidence is low and although we'll challenge in the 40 over format, I think our team has lost it's way a little.. hopefully we can get it back in the 3rd/4th playoff in 2 weekends time against the team we lost to yesterday by 20 runs or so...
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Lost yesterday, we were 212 all out and they knocked them off with 8 wickets down and 5 balls to spare. Bit of controversy though as at one point the scoreboard said 7 overs to go but both umpires thought there were only 5 left. We counted up what everyone had bowled and also came to 5 left. 20 minute break in play where the umpires conferred and then went to check the book. Disappointingly the umpires eventually agreed with the book (oppo were scoring as we didn't have a scorer) and insisted the book could not be changed - basically admitting they were both incompetent. Not good as we thought they needed about 40 off 5 but suddenly it was 40 off 7.
http://telecomsportscc.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11457827
Decent day for me 41 with the bat and 2 wickets, bit expensive with the ball but my figures should have been 5 overs and not 4 as in the book due to the mix up. Shocking in the field too as I was knackered in the heat. Batted ok in my usual attacking style, think I played 1 forward defensive and got my 41 off about 8 overs with mainly boundaries. Dropped a couple of times too but it's now 103 runs in 3 innings with the redback I bought at the end of last season which for me is amazing. Used to bat 9/10/11 when I was younger and bowl - now its the other way round, though admittedly the lower standard helps.
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Lost today. 7-0-37-1 with the ball and got 2 off 4 batting at 4
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that isn't out, the ball would be dead. if he was given out the umpire is wrong
And certainly not something to be proud of!
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168 not out at the weekend. Shared an undefeated 3rd wicket partnership of 272.
4 innings with my new fat bat. 387 runs including 2 centuries on the spin: -)
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Played an entertaining game today in the Gloucestershire cup, the oppo racked up 320 with their overseas getting 110. In reply we gave them a good run but were bowled out for 264. I batted at 3 and hit about a run a ball 44 which was pleasing against a 1st XI attack, hit 3 sixes which was also nice but a shame we lost :(
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won our cup game today and now in the quarter finals. Batted first on we thought a decent deck but proved to be a little too slow for everybodies liking. We collapsed to 30-4 before getting 132-9 in 40 overs. The oppo were racing along at 40-1 off 10, before collapsing to 84ao. Game went off the boil thanks to some inconsistent umpiring. Umpires miscounting overs, not calling over waste height beamers and then deciding to do it once it was getting dangerous and giving some pretty rank decisions, ignoring the plumb ones lol. Both teams paid £30 to each umpire for this chaos.
I top scored in the match with 40 and bowled 8-3-14-2, could've been alot more in both cases.
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With this lovely weather, i'm glad that I have recently been playing 2 games a weekend.
Saturdays game, was premier league against Wimborne. We bowled first, in the heat! Was horrible, and felt like it dragged on for ages. We had a good start, getting them 3 down for not very many. Then they had a partnership, they ended up hitting 240-5 off their 50 overs. I also missed a run out chance, which annoyed me. However I did save some runs in the field, so i'm happy with that. We then went out to bat with the pitch being very flat, we got off to a good start before we fell in bit of a heap. I came in at 7, told to just keep ticking over, although we needed around 100 off the final 11 overs, managed to get to 7 before leaving a ball that was down leg and deciding to run, took the second, and got caught short by a throw from the boundary. They went on to win by 60 ish runs.
Sundays game, we batted first this time thank god! The openers batted through the innings, and notched up 224. With my mate who has recently joined the club. Until today, he had never hit a 50, hit a 6 or hit a 100. Our openers ended up with 129* and 79*. He did all of them today, was so proud of himself. We then bowled our overs and they ended up with 110-9. Was fairly boring game, but look forward to next weeks games :D
And I also managed to pick up my first wicket of the season, about time!
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Who are you playing for on Sundays?
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Thornford. The village I live in, just outside Sherborne. Yesterday was a close game wasn't! haha
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funny thing happened in my game yesterday some guy caught caught out off a no ball but he didn't realize it was a no ball he was walking off angry when ups shouted him back so our fielder who caught it threw it to the keeper and ran him out he was peeved off then haha
You should be embarrassed..
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Haven't been around on here for a while due to exams, but have still been playing cricket.
Haven't really had any scores since the 2nd week in April, got a couple of bad decisions and have played some rash shots. But yesterday, I got my first ton of the season, 103*.
Opened the batting, raced to 60 inside 14 overs and then they spread the field far and wide. Was batting with colts so had to try and play it carefully but I found myself only getting one ball an over between overs 14-29. Was sat on 91* at drinks at 29, and decided to do away with the nervous nineties by hitting a 4, 2 and then a 6 to bring up my ton.
Had 15 4s and one 6. Retired myself as we had some other colts to bat and it was only a Sunday. Hopefully, a Saturday ton is on the cards soon.
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You should be embarrassed..
why should I be embarrassed?
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Played both days this weekend. Was keeping in the 2's on Saturday as both 1st team keepers were unavailable. Batted at 4, felt quite good until I was at the non strikers end. The other batsman(on 90 odd at the time) clipped one to the man at 45 and called me through for 1. Didn't fancy it but thought I could make it but was out quite comfortably for 8.
The batsman went on to make 129 and we won by quite alot so wasn't too fussed after the game but was doing my nut at the time. nothing to report with the gloves Saturday either.
Sunday I was in the 1's for a friendly. Opened up with the 1st team skipper and got an absolute jaffa for 1. But a stumping , catch and a convincing win softened the blow.
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Won Saturday by 4 runs in the last over. I got 16 off 45 and 3-0-24-0. Bad day personally!
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why should I be embarrassed?
Because it's a pathetic way to play cricket if you're going to appeal for that!
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Because it's a pathetic way to play cricket if you're going to appeal for that!
As Nick has said...
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As Nick has said...
Agree, but I know plenty of sides who don't give a toss about the spirit of the game.
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i guess the appeal follows in the heat of the moment. but the team can always take it back. and in fact it should not come to that. I am shocked the umpire gave it out.
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why should I be embarrassed?
I'd be seriously no swearing please off if that happened in a game that I was playing in.
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funny thing happened in my game yesterday some guy caught caught out off a no ball but he didn't realize it was a no ball he was walking off angry when ups shouted him back so our fielder who caught it threw it to the keeper and ran him out he was peeved off then haha
Thats not something to boast about, thats not being a gentlemanly cricketer
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Had a 16 over youth game today, captain went to London without telling anybody so we brought in one of my team-mates' young brother and I took over the captaincy, not the best start. Felt a little out of my depth as I hadn't planned bowler usage etc.(As I thought the captain would be there..) didn't bowl particularly well but as a whole we did well and contained them to 120 off their 16. By the time both of our openers were out it was 55-2 off 8, the run-rate soared as me and the other guy got ourselves in but when we were, the run-rate dropped rapidly. Needing just 4 off 7 balls I looked to tap a ball down leg-side for a single, edging it and being caught behind for 39(my new high score). The guy I had batted with got out next ball and we ended up losing by 3. :(
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Unlucky A-Swing-And-A-Miss, that was a great effort being thrown in to captain on the day.
We had a mad game last night. Was roped in to play in the 1s in a Middlesex CCL Cup 20/20, against local neighbours North Middlesex, who we don't like much apparently (I think they're alright but what do I know)...
Restricted them to 149-8 off their 20 on our small ground, which was a good effort, and then in reply the top 8 decided to bat like we had 10 overs to get our target, leaving us 39-8 off 5.4 overs.
Cue me (at number 10) and number 9 to get a 100 partnership, and we then won the game on the penultimate ball.
I finished up on 62*, definitely the best innings I've ever played given the situation. :D
http://highgatecc.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11568111
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Heres the match report for Saturdays match!
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/cricket/9731747.Dave_s_walk_in_The_Park_for_Bridport/
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i guess the appeal follows in the heat of the moment. but the team can always take it back. and in fact it should not come to that. I am shocked the umpire gave it out.
well, aside from teh spirit of cricket stuff, it technically wasn't out - a man can only be run out off a no ball if he is actively attempting a run...
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Because it's a pathetic way to play cricket if you're going to appeal for that!
it happened really quick wasn't like he was in the pavilion when we did it he was just about 3 yards out of his crease walking off
and at the minute im not playing test level cricket so umpires may get things wrong now and again and players may not know all individual rules.
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Cup T/20 tonight. Went along to watch and was told to get my kit as we were one short. Batted six, faced last ball of the innings which I hit for 4. We got 177-4 in our 20 I think. Their innings never really got going with regular wickets falling, I managed to take a catch and got 3-0-13-0 bowling at the end.
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it happened really quick wasn't like he was in the pavilion when we did it he was just about 3 yards out of his crease walking off
and at the minute im not playing test level cricket so umpires may get things wrong now and again and players may not know all individual rules.
You should realise that that is pretty bang out off order though, even more so at village level!
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Took a catch off our openers bowling but dropped one off my own bowling, and the guy went onto get 60 odd.. Ended up with 8-2-23-1(Including only going for 1 run in the final over of the innings) as they made 190-7. We kept up with the run-rate but kept losing wickets and eventually I came out at number 11 with the side needing 10 to win off 3.5 overs. Dug in with the ball swinging a mile and finished 1* as we won it with 8 balls to spare. Very glad we won as clearly the Spirit of Cricket is an unknown phrase at the opposition club, calling our players cheats when a couple of their appeals for caught behind were given not out (despite the fact all of our batsmen would walk if they ever edged anything)..
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We collapsed again posting 112 on a softish pitch(not sure how it was so soft). Personally getting better 28 before I was out to the dross that cam on as their change bowling chasing a wide one.
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Dull Saturday for us. 1st XI Oppo ruined the game and batted first, 90ao and we did it for 2 down in no time. I was in the 2s and we did similar, bowling oppo out for 81 (should've been 50 odd really) and doing it for 1 in 23 overs. My effort with the ball - 2.1-1-2-3 and the skipper dropped 2 at slip!. My 2nd XI bowling figures stand at a yawn inducing 33.2-10-42-10 and I've not batted this season in the league lol
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Another single figures score for me :( I've pretty much been told that I'll be demoted down the order now, which is pants as the plan was to score bIg runs this year to try and get back in the 1st XI, so really I want to bat in the top 3. It's totally justified though and I probably need to be thankful I'm not being dropped to the 3rd XI (yet)
Got my first wicket of the season though, and felt like the first time this season I've bowled with any real control.
Really good win too. Bowled out opposition for 184 and knocked them off for 5 with plenty of overs to spare.
So far this year the club is undefeated in the league at our home ground! We get a good bunch of spectators down and there's always a good atmosphere + banter with the crowd. Also our club chairman buys the team a jug whenever they win at home - so far he's paid out every week!
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Lost the toss and other team chose to bat - seemed a strange choice as they hadn't scored over 100 in a game so far. After 23 overs we had them 69-3 and we're looking good. 23 overs later they were 256-4.
Was happy enough with my figures 13 overs - 29-2. We were just missing a couple of bowlers.
In response, we were equally as dismal -56 for 6. Couple of guys stuck around though and we ended on 118-7.
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Really gOod game yesterday despite losing by one run! which was out first loss of the season. They scored 234 off their 45 overs got one wicket for far too many runs bowling at the death and a run out. Chase started well and we were 90-3 at drinks We went to 111-6 in the space of a few overs but me and the skipper put on 111 for the 8th wicket before he got out for 64 in the penultimate over, needed 9 to win off the last over and it went down to the last ball and I missed it, very annoying but I scored 42* off 44 balls so I didn't have a bad day and was nice to finally get a decent score this season
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It was the 3rds v 4ths yesterday, which only means one thing, BANTER, a lot of it! They got 162 all out after the Hunter bowling show was complete ;) We lost early wickets an decided we were never going to win so played for the draw and got it. I ended on 4* after being at the crease for 12 overs. Got 4 wickets which was nice as well. Should have been 5 if I'd have caught one after the batsmen chipped it back up to me, but I dropped it, they ran, I picked up the ball and ran the other batsmen out. Happy days :) Here is the scorecard http://caldy.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11417172
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We had good win Saturday. i won the toss and chose to bowl which looked like an inspired decision when they were 14-2 off 11 until one guy tee'd off from ball one and got 43 and our fielding went downhill. We eventually bowled them out for 138 in 40.2 overs. We personally thought that was about 70 too many.
We knocked them off 1 down in 20.5 overs and I top scored with 79 off of 61 balls
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Well done Wolfie
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Played against my old club on Saturday, they batted first and after being 70-1 off 12 we bowled them out for 126. I bowled 3-1-6-1 and was taken off! Opened the batting and after hitting a few fours early on a played across the line to a ball the nipped away the last minute and took my off-pole, we ended up knocking them off 4 down which was nice!
Yesterday played a hungover sunday league game for my old club (as I was there for the weekend), came in at 2 when we were 2-1 and hit a steady 50. Game was rained off with 10 overs left in the 2nd innings!
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Bit of an update on my nightmarish season so far:
In the league we have had 3 games, I have faced 11 balls and am yet to score a run. Been caught once and bowled twice (played on on saturday though). So im not looking forward to facing a former Zimbabwean test cricketer next weekend and a former England u19 player.
In the 20/20 cup game I fared a bit better, opening up I hit a quick 22 including consecutive huge 6s over straight midwicket/cow corner haha
In out midweek games I have scored 25 opening up, didnt bat the next day (odd I know) and then got another duck last week, edging the ball onto my pad and then onto the stumps >:(
Im feeling like I just need my luck to change, but after 4 ducks, and 3 consecutive ducks Im starting to question my own ability, and am getting more and more nervous before I bat. Hopefully a couple of nets will sort me out this week.
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see if you can have some throw downs before you next play and practice your favourite shots. work on your defense too.
the runs will come.
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Dull Saturday for us. 1st XI Oppo ruined the game and batted first,
Ruined ironically, or do you really think they should have let you bat first?
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see if you can have some throw downs before you next play and practice your favourite shots. work on your defense too.
the runs will come.
Cheers, I know they will just gotta keep working at it. Hopefully the luck might be with me too next week
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Here is my match report from Saturday.
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/cricket/9743555.Bridport_fall_just_short_at_Broadstone/
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Here is my match report from Saturday.
[url]http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/cricket/9743555.Bridport_fall_just_short_at_Broadstone/[/url]
bet you all got a fair amount of stick from a veteran in the opposition side...
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Played yesterday, opened the bowling, 6overs-15 runs, 1 maiden nil poi on wickets, then was batting at ten which annoyed me a bit but there we go.
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bet you all got a fair amount of stick from a veteran in the opposition side...
Explain?
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Explain?
Guy called Barry Seymour plays for 'em, used to be our First XI skipper many moons ago...quite combative to say the least!
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Here is my match report from Saturday.
[url]http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/cricket/9743555.Bridport_fall_just_short_at_Broadstone/[/url]
What league do you play in Liam?
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Dorset Saturday division 3
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Ruined ironically, or do you really think they should have let you bat first?
yes lol - but nobody in our division is stupid enough to let us have first hit on a decent batting track. Hoping next season we'll find our level and it won't as one sided.
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yes lol - but nobody in our division is stupid enough to let us have first hit on a decent batting track. Hoping next season we'll find our level and it won't as one sided.
agree its annoying when sides are playing below their actual ability - one of the problems with the current trend toward 10 team divisions and lots of depth, a la the Thames Valley which you know from yore is that a side that improves rapidly can take five years to get to the "right" level...
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First team captain(2nd best batsman at club) along with his brother(best batsman at the club) were away along with several other first team players so I got called up to the first team. We had 10 players in the 1st team and 8 players in the 2nd's and despite the pitch being very wet and the groundsman saying there was no chance of playing on the pitch, the stand in captain decided we should play. We lost the toss and were put in to bat on the horrendous pitch, we ended up all out for 49(I got 0*) which they chased down for just the loss of two wickets.
Really fustrated, there was no way we were going to get a good game of cricket on that pitch so the stand in 1st team captain should have just called it off and sent all 2nd team players(like myself) he called up back to the 2nd's so they could have had 11 players and a decent game..
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both games off today. 1s game had a a mushy outfield and greasy track. 2s game had a sodden track. Heavy shower at 10am did it, wasn't best pleased to see the sun for the rest of the day :-(
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Awesome day allround today, playing for the 2's on a surprisingly good home wicket, we batted first and got 259-3 on the board against a fairly good opposition, I opened the batting and got 104*-my highest score of the season, was over the moon, the other opener got 72 and the rest got starts then got out, our bowling wasnt the greates but we managed to bowl them out for 223, alot closer than we would have liked, however extras scored highly! so it was partially down to our poor bowliing. Match tomorrow already cancelled though...balls!
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Played today on what was a very very very slow pitch with no bounce at all! We were put in to bat and did ok on a poor track until one of our guys just hit out, he got 61 off about 30-40 balls with a few massive sixes. We ended on 160 odd for 5 off 50. They batted ok, needed about 6/7 an over in the last 20 with 6 down. In the last 5-7 overs the chance of winning had gone out the window. In the last over of the game I bowled a wider one and their little kid who must have been about 12 slashed at it and it went in the air quite a distance from our backward point. He then literally flew to his left and plucked it out the air one handed! Second best I've seen in a match I've playing in. The first was in the middle overs of today's game, batsmen nicked it and it flew off the edge to our 'experienced' slip fielder. No body movement at all, arm flew up and somehow the ball had stuck. Unbelievable stuff. I ended with good figures of 10.4-5-15-3. Great win for us considering other teams in the league wouldn't have been playing.
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Having spent the whole of yesterday in an Edgbaston pub at the rained out test I was pretty sure (and praying!) the game would be rained off today! Turned out well in the end though, we got stuck in on slow pitch and got 234-6. I made 43 before getting caught on the boundary. We then bowled them out for 97. Maximum points and back to back wins. Looking forward to next week :D
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Called off yesterday, but the pitch today was marginal for a home match. No play which is very frustrating as we've played two in six thanks to the weather...
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Anyone got a stick of rhubarb and decent bowling spell I can have please?
Got triggered batting, massive stride batting out of my crease hit me on the top hat/thigh pad outside the line, and bowled like i was bowling a piece of soap.
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Dropped down from 1sts to skipper 2nd team at beginning of season. Been reasonably happy with personal performance when bowling, but struggling with the bat. Keep hitting a couple of boundaries early on, and then getting out cheaply
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Team wise, on paper we have a team that should be pushing for top 3 - in reality we have been struggling with availability and missing both bowlers and batters.
First time I've skippered so it's a good learning curve, but not much fun chasing 250+ runs every game.
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Played yesterday resurrected an old track. Pitch was really soft at one end as tops had blown of covers.
Lost toss & inserted I managed to see off opening bowler before facing other opener & hit low full toss straight to cover off the toe.
We managed to get 210-8 opposition all out for about 80.
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Played 3 matches this weekend. League match on Saturday, t20 this morning and a 40 over friendly match today. On Saturday I got 2-30 off 8 overs after getting the two openers, I don't know why I got taken off as I was the most economical bowler and had all the teams wicket's but the captain made his decision so I got on with the match. We bowled them out for 203 with one of the batsmen who must've been around 13 getting 30 odd. Then I had to bat at 11 which annoyed me as I know I'm definitely not a number 11 and ended up with 0* after being bowled out for 91.
Then this morning on a low scoring pitch with a lot of low bounce I opened the batting and got 37 but I didn't bat well as I was to slow and wasn't middling the ball, I got out lbw trying to flick the ball into the leg side, the ball hit me on my back leg thigh it could've been clipping the bails but it was very close.
Then in today's Friendly match I got 3-19 off 7 overs with an amazing one handed catch on the boundary by one of our guys to get the best batsmen out. Then to my surprise I was aloud to open the batting which I have never done in senior cricket. Chasing 138 I got my first ever 50 batting through the innings ending up on 59* off around 100 balls, hopefully now I've proven that I am a capable batsmen I'll get to bat higher in league cricket on Saturdays. I was definitely in the zone as I played and missed only one ball and edged one short ball for 4.
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Yesterday called off, today first game in 2 weeks. Bowled first, they were 49-0 off 6! I came on, got 2 wickets in my 2nd over, still managed to take 242 off us! 10-0-38-3, decent figures. Batting looked okay at 80-1, cue a big collapse, came in at 11 and hit 6 before taking on an ambitious single! Managed to double my average for the season though... Awkward!
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Boring game for me yesterday. I got called up to the 2's to play against St. John's Billericay as the other keeper is injured. We bowled first on a damp pitch and bowled them out for 53 in 30 overs. Nothing for me to do behind the stumps except wear a few from the uneven bounce.
Didn't bat as the runs were knocked off 1 down in 12 overs.
Got back to the club to find out the 3's(which I normally captain) had been bowled out for 95 by Little Baddow. When I arrived the oppo were about 60 for 2. Baddow always looked comfortable, but a quick flurry of wickets shook them. Little Baddow were still looking good for the win but they were bowled out for 94!!!!
Was a top fight back but there were some harsh words spoken in the changing room after
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Had a rather good win on Saturday.....bowling the oppo out for 6 :)
Cheeky figures for your's truly.
http://www.somerset-cricket.org.uk/scl_results/1stXIScoreCard.asp?HomeDivCode=HU11&AwayDivCode=BA3&Date=09/06/2012
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How does a team go out for 6 ?
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They don't score 7
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They don't score 7
Hahahaha
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Had a rather good win on Saturday.....bowling the oppo out for 6 :)
Cheeky figures for your's truly.
[url]http://www.somerset-cricket.org.uk/scl_results/1stXIScoreCard.asp?HomeDivCode=HU11&AwayDivCode=BA3&Date=09/06/2012[/url]
I think your bowling figures have peaked for your lifetime there Dom!
truthfully, how bad were they?
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Finally some runs!!! Chasing 102 on a soggy dog wicket, we were 30ish for 4 when I went in to bat at number 6. We knocked them off for 6 down, I finished 43* . I was the only batsmen on our team to make double figures.
Reckon the change of fortune MUST be due to wearing my new Ayrtek sweatband for the first time (cheers reds!)
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I think your bowling figures have peaked for your lifetime there Dom!
truthfully, how bad were they?
Ironically they aren't that bad and 2/3 years ago were right on the cusp of promotion to Wepl 2. They just seem to have lost a fair few players. Would be more inclined to blame it on very good bowling as opposed to terrible batting (but I'm not sure). One of the lads is a very good friend of mine and scores a lot of runs, and has done for BArrington for years. #Baddayattheoffice
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Top work Dom, well done! And the Somerset league is a pretty decent standard, far from your village cricketers there so must have bowled really well!
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Echoing Nick's words there!
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It's made national news! Was one of the headlines on the BBC Sport Cricket page, with a link to this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-18399462
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It's made national news! Was one of the headlines on the BBC Sport Cricket page, with a link to this article:
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-18399462[/url]
Saw that on facebook lol, hopefully it will kick them into gear. They're too good a team [edit: club] to slip all the way down through the leagues and end up dissolving. One of the most beautifful grounds in the county. Love playing there!
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Some awesome figures from our Firsts this past weekend...
http://hillingdonmanor.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11443716
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My new club started their season off with 3 league wins and 1 cup win. But we can not buy a win in the Sunday games, we are now 0 wins 2 defeats, both games were against teams from higher divisions and both games we should have won. Bowling first we had Stanton St John (6 divisions ablve us) 3 wickets for 6 runs after 10 overs, and still lost.
Next weekend, weather permitting we play "the mighty Hosk" and his Watlington side. So look out for my thread on "Kit watch".
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I have made myself available for the 2nds on Saturday fella - so weather permitting, it'll be good to meet you.
Our 2nds have't had a decent game yet so heaven knows how badly we'll do!! But will be good to say hi!
I may even bring some bats for you to look at if there's anything in particular you'd like to see mate?
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Looking like this week maybe a wash out so may make my return against Peplow's team next weekend, if not then I'll be in the 2s hoping to extend their 100% unbeaten start to the season.
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I have made myself available for the 2nds on Saturday fella - so weather permitting, it'll be good to meet you.
Our 2nds have't had a decent game yet so heaven knows how badly we'll do!! But will be good to say hi!
I may even bring some bats for you to look at if there's anything in particular you'd like to see mate?
Now there's an offer you can't refuse. I reckon you might want to borrow the CF Premier Cru he has for your innings... ;)
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I have made myself available for the 2nds on Saturday fella - so weather permitting, it'll be good to meet you.
Our 2nds haven't had a decent game yet so heaven knows how badly we'll do!! But will be good to say hi!
I may even bring some bats for you to look at if there's anything in particular you'd like to see mate?
Well, you will need to see the Charlie French, the Pro SCat, any one of a number of Lavers. Then perhaps there is a BAS bat that Pete has which is rather nice, plus the SAF bat he has. The we now have to consider the £400 talisman, the Lekka bats and possibly the Black cat bats. Then we need to mention the couple of puma bats.
and those are just the ones tested at various "batoffs".
I am also sure he has a rather nice SS bat, plus a lovely CA bat.
in fact you wont remember about the game at this rate!
The Premier Cru would be my first pick of a bat to "borrow" and accidentally walk off with...
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question is how many runs does he make with all these bats?
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Got a cup final tomorrow night in our t20 cup, only a local one but looking forward to picking up some silverware early on in the season as long as the weather stays dry.
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Not many runs yet - but then I should try to use them one at a time like other people! :(
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wierd thing is, I'm not certain you're even kidding! ;)
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Windmill Pete stands at the crease, a bat in each hand....
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Windmill Pete stands at the crease, a bat in each hand....
like a slo mo of Chris Gayle on crack...?? ;)
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Pete, bring as many as can fit in your car, then I can forget about the match and just spend the afternoon admiring them.
The good news for you is we are missing our best player, who has an average of 124. the rest of us will struggle to score 124 between us.
looking forward to meeting you
jason
PS, Would like to see the chase
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After getting 3 ducks in a row, and moaning on here, I got 52 on saturday. Played myself in then batted relatively sensibly, and rode my luck (only 4 drops haha) but then I believed I deserved some luck after my start to this season. Felt good to be back. We scored 242-3 off our 45 overs, against a former test leggie (Adam Huckle, Zimbabwe, 12-5-23-0) and a former England U19 captain (Paul Redfern). In response Huckle got 52 and Redfern a quaker, but we restricted them to 103-4 off 30, the game well in our hands. Their number 6 however just took the game away from us in the last 15 overs, and hit 8 6s in a very quick-fire 101. When we got him out they were 2 behind, and their number 11 hit a 4 with 4 balls remaining. Disappointing to lose but still nice to be back in the runs personally.
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played a match tonight 6 players vs 8 the 6 got 84 in their 15 overs we knocked them off lets just say there were plenty of gaps in the field
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agree its annoying when sides are playing below their actual ability - one of the problems with the current trend toward 10 team divisions and lots of depth, a la the Thames Valley which you know from yore is that a side that improves rapidly can take five years to get to the "right" level...
and to prove the point:-
http://www.thelca.co.uk/news/2012/headingley-reach-1000-days-unbeaten/
The Wetherby Cricket League made this record possible by sticking us in the bottom division lol
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Got a very nice win today, after a good midweek performance I was promoted to number 8 however our number 7 batted out the last 15 overs in a partnership worth over 100 as we got to 240. They never looked like getting it as they were always behind the rate not helped by regular wickets. With 15 overs left and black clouds covering the sky their tailenders tried to block out for rain, sadly it didn't work as I came on and took two wickets to finish off the innings.
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Our firsts won a nail biter tonight, won with a ball to spare chased down 211
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1sts and 2nds rained off. Two weeks in a row :-(
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2nd game of the season for me today. Fielded in the drizzly rain for 3hrs, had tea, openers batted for ten overs only for it to hammer down and match abandoned. Waste of a day!!
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We were 40-5 today, manged to get up to 124 from our 45 overs, with the rain I didnt think we'd get back on after tea so I offered their captain the no result. He rufused and they had to hit a revised 96 from 29 overs, we had them 55-9 at the end of their overs! Great win!
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Lost yesterday were 40-6 I oppened + was still there no reason to be 40-6. Then no 8 got 40 before I got an edge + keep took low catch diving to his right didn't help everyone telling me how unlucky I was he don't do that. Scorebook said 18 but out by 6 when I added it up maybe getting those as must have been mine or byes as noone else batted long enough. Kept wicket for first time ever @ age 36 think I did ok.
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2nd game of the season for me today. Fielded in the drizzly rain for 3hrs, had tea, openers batted for ten overs only for it to hammer down and match abandoned. Waste of a day!!
Comfortably the worst way to spend a day....I share your pain mate, nothing worse than that. Everyone knows it's going to happen but you have to go through the motions anyway. Same thing happened to me yesterday...got home cold and wet.
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Abandoned without a ball bowled yesterday. Off to play my first match for 2 weeks today for Millichamp and Hall!
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I forgot to post about last week, had Parley away. Probably the best team in the league, they elected to bowl, scored 256. With 44 runs coming in the last 2 overs! Admittedly the deck was still fairly good, but that was just far to much for us, after the start we had. Came in at number 7, scored 16, before being bowled around my legs, bloody leg spinners! Here's the scorecard for the game; http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11469899
Yesterday, on a pitch that was pretty damp, as there covers are high and the rain just blows under. However it was the derby Dorchester vs. Weymouth. We lost the toss and were put into bat, and we were without a couple of our better players. Again our top order failed, I came in at 51-5 in the 20th over, batted for a bit before we went off for rain, we came back out and I shared a 61 partnership with the number 6, before he got out. Left me and the captain a couple of overs to have a go, and we was going along nicely, until the last over where I got out stumped of a legside wide, managed to score 26 off 100, I know its boring but in the heat of the moment that was what was needed. We managed to get to 148-8 from our 50 overs. They had a restricted target of 124, and knocked them off 7 wickets down. I didn't bowl. Fairly annoying lose against Weymouth. Bring on next week. And here's a scorecard of the game; http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11469900
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We had parley 2's yesterday
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Getting really fed up now, first game of weekend cricket for me of the year and got 2 on a used and slow pitch. Very annoying as I middled a couple straight at fielders and then played across the line to a straightish ball that stuck in the pitch a little so was through the shot early despite having been telling myself to play straight the whole time. Grrr! To make matters worse we lost, I wouldn't mind getting a low score if we won but we were bowled out for 129 in 32 overs and the oppo got it 8 down in 24 overs, there were a couple of dropped catches that probably lost us the game.
With a top score of 8 not out and a grand total of 15 runs from 4 innings this year I feel I might need to start netting to iron out a few problems.....or take up bowling.....
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won our cup QF today. Bowled the oppo out for a very generous 85. We didn't bowl very well and the batting wasn't at it's best either as we limped over for 6 down. Happy with my 8-1-9-2 including a couple of drops. Got a bit more spin today, though I could've bowled a more attacking line and a little fuller at times.
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Finally got the first 50 off the season today! Got a few pictures which I'll stick up later
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Few short of a #TekTonne but well done none the less Mate, a weekend without any cricket for moi as its chucked it down all weekend! :(
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Thanks, dropped a couple times but hopefully it's on elf those innings that kick starts the season!
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Good stuff Liam. Who was you playing?
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Played against Pokesdown Willows at Kings Park. Horrible ground, at one point we had 3 kids playing football on the outfield. They're guys asked them to move, they got all aggressive and we then had 3 police cars turn up. Then when the police left the lads parents turned up and started mouthing off!
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Oh dear. I got 41 not out today, chasing 79 at Cerne Abbas.
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We played through the rain as much as we could yesterday to the point it was ridiculous. They batted first, we bowled them out last ball for 226. Me being expensive going for 49 off my 8 for one wicket, so difficult to control the ball and sliding on the artificial.
We got off to a good start putting on 79 for the first wicket, and finishing after 21 overs before I told our captain it would be dangerous to resume. I enjoyed batting needing 71 to go top of the run-scoring leader-board for our club that was my incentive.
http://bradleystokecc.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11411450
Today was rained off once again. Not sure of the scores when we finished but I got 3.1-1-13-1 and took a catch.
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Had a top day today, played for Millichamp and Hall against a Cricket Writers XI down in Wiltshire. Turned up and it was a really really nice ground! We batted first, I came in at 4 when we had about 40 on the board and added about 130 odd with some guy from up Yorkshire who got 70, I got out for 65 with about 15 over to go. We ended on 229.
Had a decent tea, then the oppo raced to 120-0 in what seemed like no time. I was thrown the ball and somehow managed to take the next 5 wickets to fall and they finished on 200-7!
There were a lot of photos of the game so I shall upload them when they come online, and also won myself a pair of Distinction gloves for man of the match!
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I played a cut shot. It went for 4 runs.
I'm still in disbelief.
Had to open today, I don't mind as it gave me the opportunity to play myself in. Felt in good nick for 27 but should have had more good fielding probably cost me 20 runs
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Played against Pokesdown Willows at Kings Park. Horrible ground, at one point we had 3 kids playing football on the outfield. They're guys asked them to move, they got all aggressive and we then had 3 police cars turn up. Then when the police left the lads parents turned up and started mouthing off!
Wish we could get 3 cop cars down for that, best we ever get is 2 PCSO's who can do bugger all an they take half an hour to walk from the station - and that's for 20 odd kids being annoying chavvy w***ers!
Weird that the parents came and had a go though ???
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Managed to make the picture in the write up for saturdays game. Pretty proud, seeing as it means I was out there long enough for the photographer to take a picture! Here's the write up if anyone wants a read;
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/9766906.Safety_first_in_Seasiders__derby_triumph/
:)
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Well, my shoulder managed to make it in to the evening post!!
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/weather-winner-clubs-start-count-cost/story-16401444-detail/story.html
Im at slip!
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I'd be interested who got the highest score this weekend in the B&D as my 73* would be up there with all the cancellations.
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Opened for our development team on Sunday and got 24 while chasing 120, we then managed to get bowled out for 97 with all of there bowlers except one bowling spin which combined with poor batting lead to our downfall. I was caught and bowled off a legspinner after failing to spot the top spinner. Very annoying to lose after such a good bowling and fielding performance.
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I'd be interested who got the highest score this weekend in the B&D as my 73* would be up there with all the cancellations.
Bloke in our 3rds got 94 Colesy!!!
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Yeah after looking at all results from the B&D on Play-Cricket I decided I'm second.
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Very happy with my performance this evening :) .
Bowling wasn't too good but I hit and solid 26 then toed one to a fielder in the deep. Top score of the season so far and my new Gray Nicolls quantum felt very good.
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Had an okay game yesterday.
Ran out yesterday 2nd ball of the innings for nil >:(
Bowled my very first overs yesterday for the club and finished with figure of 2 wickets for 5 runs off 3 overs :D
So every cloud has a silver lining I must say.
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Bloke in our 3rds got 94 Colesy!!!
In the Evening Post tonight I was in the top 10 for batting although it was down as 69*. Sam Trego had a good weekend, 160 and 5-10
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In the Evening Post tonight I was in the top 10 for batting although it was down as 69*. Sam Trego had a good weekend, 160 and 5-10
First score of more than 10 this season, won't have done his average much harm I wouldn't have thought.
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First score of more than 10 this season, won't have done his average much harm I wouldn't have thought.
Believe his stats on Play Cricket also suggest that was his first 100 and first 5for for the club so probably one to remember for him!
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Believe his stats on Play Cricket also suggest that was his first 100 and first 5for for the club so probably one to remember for him!
He played for Uphill Castle for a while but can't remember why he left.
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Because he got offered money to go to WSM I believe!
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Ahh what it must be like to get paid playing cricket
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thursday was off, Sunday off and Saturday looking pretty bad. That'll be no league game for 3 weeks in a row - not good. Quite a few of our oppo have played 4 out of 9 games. Terrible summer.
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thursday was off, Sunday off and Saturday looking pretty bad. That'll be no league game for 3 weeks in a row - not good. Quite a few of our oppo have played 4 out of 9 games. Terrible summer.
We're blowy at the moment but no rain... Fingers crossed that the game is on...
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Ive played 12 out of 13 matches this year but all apart from one have been on horrible pitches. :)
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Ive only played one match so far this season :D
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Got my first 5-fer for the 1st team and the first one of the season for me as I tore through the oppos middle order and tail in the last few overs(very nearly including a hat-trick in the final over). They got 162-9 off their 45 and we chased that down in 39 overs, good day!
I do however feel rather bad about my 3rd wicket which was a caught & bowled from a full toss that should have ended up in the trees, however a wicket is a wicket I guess, doesn't matter how they come they are still marked the same in the scorebook..
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Another single figures score for me - 4 from 2 balls. We hit 207-6 from 45. Opposition chased them for 4 down with nearly 10 overs left. One of their openers carried his bat for a brutal ton. I also dropped a dolly catch in the field. Having a miserable year. Seriously contemplating knocking it on the head.
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Lost bowled out for 100 put on 50 for first wicket other opener chanced his luck, I was 2nd out bowled for 15 played off back foot pitched mid/mid off hit edge of off good ball annoying that never seem to go on.
Keeping again took diving catch in front of first slip.
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Abandoned due to rain after 36 overs with opposition struggling at 90 odd for 5. The great British summer continues
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Lost today for a change. Batted really poorly on a pretty blameless deck. Toss was important but they bowled too short and we should've score 193 not 93. Came in at 12-5 after 10 overs. Got fed a load of short stuff, moved to 18 without looking in any trouble and then got one of the few decent balls, a leg stump yorker and that was it. Didn't get too much chance to bowl but picked up a wicket, they did it for 5 down. Our 1st XI marched on though with a win and at least we got a game in for the first Saturday in June.
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Another single figures score for me - 4 from 2 balls. We hit 207-6 from 45. Opposition chased them for 4 down with nearly 10 overs left. One of their openers carried his bat for a brutal ton. I also dropped a dolly catch in the field. Having a miserable year. Seriously contemplating knocking it on the head.
Don't give up johnny, quitting cricket for 10 years was one of the worst things I've done and I wish I'd carried on playing. I'd had an awful season playing midweek cricket, got fed up as I wasn't playing like I could and packed in. I can guarantee you'll just end up wondering if you'd have done any better and regretting it if you stop.
Just go out next week, relax and try to smack it - you're probably worrying too much.
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Top scored with 37 yesterday so happy days. Nice to get a bat. Season so far is a 0 & 37. Game eventually called of to torrential rain 15 overs into there innings!
Looking forward to a sunny Saturday tho
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Another single figures score for me - 4 from 2 balls. We hit 207-6 from 45. Opposition chased them for 4 down with nearly 10 overs left. One of their openers carried his bat for a brutal ton. I also dropped a dolly catch in the field. Having a miserable year. Seriously contemplating knocking it on the head.
Quitting is the last resort mate once you have exhausted all the other options. Is there another team at a lower level in your club that you can drop down to for a while to get some form back? Maybe you are just out of form trying and thinking about it too much when you are at the crease? Or maybe you could freshen it up by joining a new club?
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we played 2nd from bottom yesterday..
we batted first got 180-5 me and ryan put on 80 partnership(about time).
ryan got 40 i got 47.
we bowled oppo out for about 130
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Played Peplow's team yesterday, they won the toss and batted first. We managed to bowl them out for 185 in 44 overs before the heavens opened at tea. Sam was unlucky, sold out by his batting partner and ran out for 16(?) after nailing a six.
I didn't bowl but caught their opener who always seems to get 50+ against us and ran out their top scorer after misfielding.
Shame it was abandoned as we all backed ourselves to chase it down as it's about 70 below par at the moment.
And the umpire ate my teas! Not happy!
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2 games this weekend, again! And today we managed to get some pretty good weather for once :D
Yesterday first, Home to Stalbridge 1's. We won the toss, elected to bowl when the conditions definitely bowling, and it showed. We had them 26-6 with our opening bowler taking 5-for within the first 10 overs. We then eventually bowled them out for 130. We chased them down with 10 overs to spare and 5 wickets in hand, our number 5 scored 50+ not out and finished the game off with 13 not out, off 42 balls. Good to be back to winning ways on a Saturday :).
Today, we was on the Astro wicket, due to the overnight rain ruling any chance away at the use of a grass wicket. However we won the toss and decided to bat. Lost a wicket after about 12 ish overs, in I came, batted through for the rest of the innings for 60 not out off 92 balls. We managed to score 151-6 after our 40 overs. We took a wicket within the first 2 or 3 overs, before our opening bowler had to hobble of the field with a suspected achilles injury, turns out to just be tissue damage thankfully. On I came, took 2 caught and bowled's, first the batsmen tried going over the top, however top edged it up, meaning I had to turn back, to run and catch it. Second was off their best bat, who smacked it back at me and I caught it, easy come easy go. We then rattled through the rest of the middle order and tail, bowling them out for 115. With our 14 year old, getting a wicket, and then a run out a couple of overs later to win the game for us.
On the other hand, football was crap tonight.
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Forgot to add, my figures were 2-35 from 7.4 overs. And also dropped a catch, diving to my left, one handed. Should of had it. Of you can get a hand to a catch, it should be caught!
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Season going well atm for me, Sat 1st team are now top of the table after giving the previous 1st placed team their first loss of the season and at their ground too. We got stuck in on a wicket that was pretty slow and low with very unpredictable bounce when short, When i got out on 49 we were about 80-6 however number 7 and 9 took us to 155-7 off our 53. Proceeded to bowl them out for 110 or so fairly comfortably :)
Yesterday on a very wet wicket we somehow got a game in, oppo got 71ao we chased it in 10.2 overs and i ended on 50* with 3 6's off about 30 balls. 500runs@50 in 11 innings so far, aiming for 1500 now that im playing both days
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Played a 15/8 ball over game tonight but because of rain was reduced to 12/8 ball overs. We got 167-4 in our 12, I got 36 off 17 opening before top edging a pull, they managed about 70-8 in their 12 overs. My first ever win as captain!
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Played a school game against Wellsway today, they got 221 in their 30 overs with Tom Bancroft getting 100+*, I got 1-9 off 2 as everyone got a bowl. Opened up with a year ten who's awesome called James Bracey, I got 38 slogging because we needed 7 an over and I couldn't play Russell Simmons properly as he's pretty quick by my standards. Bracey ended up with 69 although we fell 50 odd runs short in our 30.
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Played against Thomas (Aytrek) last night in a 2020. His team batted first and hit 110 from their 20, with some clean strikes from Tom! I didn't bowl but claimed a lucky one handed catch at mid-wicket ;) In reply we were all out for 105! I got out for 8 trying the hit a slower ball over to Wales....
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haha yeah was a good game mate, i didnt think i was out LBW seeing as a was standing out side leg....just as I was going to cut loose too ;)
Our spinner should have gone for 20 off his 1st 4 balls! Never seen him do that before but he got one right when he cleaned out that lad turning it back through the gate.
lovely 1 handed grab though mate :D
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Yeah I thought the same to be honest, was only a half appeal from me at short mid off I can assure you! Yeah Knappy was fuming all evening after getting out! And why thank you :D Who have you guys got in the next round?
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Thornbury apparently, should be another good test!!
Yeah wasnt convinced and neither was the umpire after giving me apparently haha oh well thats life. In fairness our spinner took 55 wickets last season which was the highest in the B&D so hes useful when he pitches it
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Transferred teams this morning, first game for new club hopefully tomorrow. Good feeling to be back at a level where I know I can perform again!
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Transferred teams this morning, first game for new club hopefully tomorrow. Good feeling to be back at a level where I know I can perform again!
Worth sharing your story?
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Not really mate, felt i got a bit of a bum deal getting dropped from the 1s (for 'having no heart', yet still being the 4th highest 1st team run scorer having played 3 games less), and while I loved the people I was playing with in the 2's, I could play similair or better cricket 2 minutes from my house as opposed to a 40 mile round trip 3 times a week! Westlands seem genuinely happy to have me come and play as well, which is nice.... and might get free refurbs from Kieron now as well :)
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Good luck mate, hope you make a decent start
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Cheers bud, got a lot to live up to I think, they've been clamouring to get me registered to play 1s tomorrow so might need to get my head down.
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What are Westland 1's even like? I know they've got a very good setup down there, just don't know what league they play in or anything!
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Play in the Somerset division of the WEPL, be interesting to see what their aspirations are like because for a town like Yeovil, i would have thought they should be at least 1, maybe 2 divisions higher!
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Ah I see! Yeah you say about the aspirations, but Yeovil is full of mongo's!
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Now now mate, that's not very nice! Was offered to go and play for Sherborne but not being able to go any higher than Dorset prem was something that didn't really appeal to me!
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Played a school game against Wellsway today, they got 221 in their 30 overs with Tom Bancroft getting 100+*, I got 1-9 off 2 as everyone got a bowl. Opened up with a year ten who's awesome called James Bracey, I got 38 slogging because we needed 7 an over and I couldn't play Russell Simmons properly as he's pretty quick by my standards. Bracey ended up with 69 although we fell 50 odd runs short in our 30.
Would that be the brother of Sam B??
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I think we'll see more of people playing closer to home with the current petrol prices. Doesn't make sense to travel 30 miles to play a home match. I use to do it and it's like playing another 10 away games. Pleased to hear it's working out.
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Now now mate, that's not very nice! Was offered to go and play for Sherborne but not being able to go any higher than Dorset prem was something that didn't really appeal to me!
You know what I mean though, Yeovil isn't the most athletic place and half the people are Polish, and I doubt they play cricket! Don't even both going anywhere near Sherborne, its a club full of Muppets!
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But with all due respect to places like Ilminster and Chard, Yeovil has probably double the amount of people (if not more yet are playing 3 divisions lower). Doesn't make any sense to me at all!
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Yeah very true! Dorchester would more than happily take you on, I'm sure ;)
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That's just it though.... thats Dorset Prem and Moxom scores runs in that league, couldn't do anything in B&S last year, so the disparity between the 2 leagues isn't that great, so would rather play 2 minutes from my front door.
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Fair enough! Yeah, Moxom came back because he was struggling because of work, but really it was because he couldn't buy a run in the B&S League.
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I think we'll see more of people playing closer to home with the current petrol prices. Doesn't make sense to travel 30 miles to play a home match. I use to do it and it's like playing another 10 away games. Pleased to hear it's working out.
Moves a foot in bucks due to length of games + travelling.
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Played a school game against Wellsway today, they got 221 in their 30 overs with Tom Bancroft getting 100+*, I got 1-9 off 2 as everyone got a bowl. Opened up with a year ten who's awesome called James Bracey, I got 38 slogging because we needed 7 an over and I couldn't play Russell Simmons properly as he's pretty quick by my standards. Bracey ended up with 69 although we fell 50 odd runs short in our 30.
Colesy i am playing against him on Monday in the cup quaterfinal.
Would that be the brother of Sam B??
And peplow not sure if his brother is called sam but when he was under 19 i know he was in the under 19's england squad.
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Moves a foot in bucks due to length of games + travelling.
Bucks is a funny one. 2 or 3 different league go across the county and into others. You in the cherwell? I could imagine the TVL clubs would be complaining.
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Colesy i am playing against him on Monday in the cup quaterfinal.
And peplow not sure if his brother is called sam but when he was under 19 i know he was in the under 19's england squad.
Who you playing, James Bracey?
Sam plays for Glos 2's and Frocester 1st XI. I know he played with a few of my mates for England under 19s in the Indoor world cup in SA last year.
Yeah Peps, he's brother of Sam as equally as good imo, just a bit younger.
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yeah opener for winterbourne i think, got him in the BYCL cup at downend should be a great game
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Yeah, he opens for their ones too. Got a ton against our youth team in a T/20, Winterbourne have a good youth set-up
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they shouldnt be a problem for us, were looking seriously good this year undefeated and the highest someone scored against us in T20 is 91 all out got the best bowling attack in the league everyone says batting is top noch and every club says our fielding is outstanding ( which it should be as we spend every saturday morning for 2 hours working on it)
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Who do you play for?
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Downend, played bradley stoke on monday accualy mate
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Sam is class from what i have seen. Havent seen his bro.
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Downend, played bradley stoke on monday accualy mate
Yeah we didn't have the best day haha
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that was the best team weve played this season so far. Did you watch?
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I didn't as I was looking after my younger brother, teaching him how to play haha. Not sure if he played in the game but one of our u15s, Sam Wentland is very good
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Sam wentland plays for my football team aswelll warmley i play CM with him, Im seeing him tonight accualy for our presentation, he hit about 30 odd against us but everything was just at cow corner, fair play to him though
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Haha oh right. Yeah he likes the flick over midwicket, only a matter of time before he plays 2s regularly. Surprisingly quick bowler for 15, good action, bright future
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About time I got some proper runs 98no opened carried my bat. Team got 180 on not good pitch, bowled oppo out for 100. Kept wicket 1 catch did ok as variable bonce so a few byes.
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Won a very heated game against a team filled mostly with nice guys but with the odd complete *****. Their opening bowler appealed for anything that hit the pad and also got given quite a few wides given against him. At the end of one over he finally snapped, grabbed his hat off the umpire, threw it to the ground and squared up to him using phrases such as "cheat". Luckily our stand in skipper(the type of guy you really want on your side in a fight) stepped in and along with the oppo skipper managed to calm things down.
Was a real shame because it was a good game and there were lots of nice guys in the team and this left abit of a sour taste in the mouth but regardless, this was a good win against a team pushing for promotion plus we had several key players missing which makes it even sweeter.
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2 ball blob. Really ought to hang up my boots, but spoke to our chairman of selectors about it and with injuries and some holidays coming up they are struggling to put out 3 teams. Have agreed I'll drop down to the 3's to help make up the numbers. Depressing times
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what has happened to you johnny
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Johnny...chin up mate I couldn't buy a run until last Tuesday when I scored 50 in a T20 game, was only a friendly but got my confidence back enough to score a few against Biggy b's lot the night after.
Get ur self in a game without any pressure and playing for enjoyment and remember why u give up ur weekend to do it with a smile on ur face. Find that form again and go from there...
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Had my first one day match today against another provincial team(PEI)..bowled 5 over for 3 wicket,,,11-12 run i think...opposition team is and has been very poor..won by 10 wickets chasing 101...now next weekend in real test against Quebec...
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Good game today on a terrible wicket on and off the field, got 34 after being off for rain 6 times. We were bowled put for 85 in 24 overs. We then bowled extremely well and bowled them out for 40 odd, I kept for the first time in three years, 1 catch and only two byes fairly happy with that!
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Rain rain rain
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Yet another disappointing game today. Playing the team 2nd from bottom, was surprised when they chose to bat after winning the toss. Bowled them out for 130 and had 8 of their overs
Tried drumming into every player that we only needed to bat through and we would get the total. Couple of dodgy lbw decisions (including mine) along the way, but we were all out for only 77. One of players was superb and batted from 4 to the end for 48no, but was so frustrating that no one could hold an end up.
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Played in 2's. Bowled first and restricted the oppo to 198-9 from 52 overs. opened the bowling and had no wickets but 2 dropped catches, and managed to put my foot through the side of my spikes so had to play the rest of game in trainers.
On the batting side of thing, i came in at 54-5. They had a young bowler who i can say for sure you will probably not face any quicker in 2's cricket, off of him i was dropped third ball on 0, then went on to get 89* and my partner at the other end ended up on 52*, 200-5.
Catches win matches.
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got a full game in somehow.
Made 25 batting lower down the order got out an over before the end, kept for first 20 overs due to injury and took 2 catches, then had to come out and bowl due to another injury and bowled 0.5 over 2 wickets for 2 runs to finish it off.
Top of the league, happy days!
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Good work nick nack, u must have been one of the only clubs in Bristol to fit a full game in!!!
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yeah think there was only a few. we have our own climate up there so got a bit lucky, rained a couple of times but mostly went all around us and into bristol!
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Not a single drop of rain during yesterday's game.
Played Heytesbury/Sutton Veny 1's.
Bowled them out for 178, at one stage they were about 120 for 7-ish but we let them get too many runs. I took a catch, the first one this year after dropping about 4 in previous games :-[
Went in at No.7 which was annoying seeing as I open for the academy >:(
First game in my Ayrtek got 5 before having the worst LBW decision ever...
We got 110-ish
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Played against Copdock 1st's, where rain meant that we started half an hour late >:( We bowled first after winning the toss, and had them 86-6 off 30 but we went quiet after lunch and bowlers bowled poorly and they reached 206-7..
We batted well at times, but some dodgy decisions and wrong shot selection meant we had to bat for the draw and we did 9 down! With myself with a lovely 3 not out off of 25 balls ;)
Heard there pro was a bit of a sort
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Run out for 0 in the first over without facing. Partly my fault but both batsmen were in the wrong. I was lucky not to have been run out the ball before at the non strikers end as the ball was played back to the bowler and he got a touch on to the stumps.
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Lost for the first time on Saturday.
We batted poorly and struggled to 122 all out after 35 overs
then lost on the last ball of the opposition innings (45 overs).
The opposition were 8 down and need two to win and one to draw off the last ball. Batsman blocked the ball and ran. Our young 17 year old bowler picked the ball up and threw for the run out. The ball missed and went down to fine leg, they came back for the second on the over throw and won the game. Gutted!!
And I missed it all as I was at a wedding.
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last 2 knocks on a sat ive been feeling pretty good after an awfull start to season,
got 47 and 61 so things are looking up......
had a moane at the skipper as i was batting 8 and allways batting under pressure, either 50-7 or needing 20 runs of last few overs,
i have been placed at 4 for last few weeks and had to scores as i have been given time to graft an inngings :)
t20 season isnt going to good tho :(
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Well my p*** poor form has continued this season scoring only 1 on Saturday and getting bowled to a premeditated shot. On the good side we batted first and put on 275-8 from our 40 overs, mainly thanks to some good starts at the top of the order and also a 7 wicket partnership of about 120 and reduced them to 215-9 from their 40, giving me my second win as captain!
I've been really happy with my decisions in the field, and my bowling changes have generally worked very well. Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll get to nets this week because of the weather so I'm not going to expect any improvement to my batting until I can have a really good net session and sort myself out! >:(
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Had a really good game Saturday, was my first game playing back for my old club. We were against the top of the league side who were unbeaten so far this year, our skipper won the toss and bowled first. After being 27-0 from the first 3 overs (with ex-Gloucestershire batsman Tim Hancock scoring about 25 of them!) we managed to reduce them down the 40-4, after Hancock got a thick edge to the keeper and was not given, managed to get an even thicker edge the very next ball which was given! We bowled them out for 117 in the end.
I opened the batting against last years highest wicket taker in Premier 1 in the West of England premier league Wayne Kylander so was a tad nervous! Ended up hitting 20 odd (taking 18 off Kylander's 2nd over) and we got the runs fairly easily 5 down... Our other opener hit 46. The win means if we win again next weekend we could go top of the league :D
http://minehead.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11364774
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Moonlighting for minehead too are u Biggy B...man of many skills and club ;)
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You know it! Yeah was a shame about Bedminster as I was not getting in 1's, so decided to transfer back to play some first team cricket!
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That's a shame mate, fair bit of driving to do each weekend now then? Are u all in the same league now with cleavdon and bedmisnter?
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It's not too bad as half the games are in Bristol anyway! And yeah all in the same league, so could be a tad awkward playing bedminster in a few weeks time!
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Yeah will spice it up a little haha!
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Game called off today. Now played 2 games out of 11 in the league. And 1 cup game decided by a bowl off.
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After a very good run of games beating several very good teams we came crashing down with a bang yesterday. We got two early wickets but their skipper came in and got dropped 4 times including an easy one off my bowling.. He smashed me around abit and was finally caught in the 40th over, about 20 overs after he should have been out off my bowling >:( . They got 203-4 off 45 and we got torn apart, all out for 58 including me being given out LBW for the first time in my life..
The oppo weren't any better than the team we played last week and we had a better team out this week than we did a week ago but I don't think anybody really had their brain in gear..
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Had a great day of cricket yesterday, still really smiling from it all, even though I didn't play well at all! Our team (which is a new 3rds we're starting and frankly full of part timers and mercenaries) won against a team that was significantly better. Always a nice feeling, and I thought we were going to get tanked!
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By the looks of it, every game in WEPL was cancelled yesterday!
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Not played since first saturday in june - forgotten what to do!!!
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Game is still on against Lansdown today - Praying we dont have rain now, First game in ages!
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By the looks of it, every game in WEPL was cancelled yesterday!
Yes think so Nick. Hopefully next week will be ok !! Atleast our new covers are keeping the track dry. It's just the rest of the ground that is flooded.
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Rained off again. What a terrible year.
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Got full 80 over game in :)
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The 1st team won again, got a full 20 points. Only lost one game this season, things are going well.
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Every single game in Dorset got called off yesterday! That's 8 odd divisions!
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Seems we got the terrible weather a day later than most of the country here in Norfolk. Was supposed to be playing for my Sunday team today, got called off so decided to go to my Saturday teams chairmen's day which was also called off.. Supposed to have a game tomorrow but seeing as how there is standing water on the square, I doubt it'll be on..
Ahh well, atleast we managed to get one game on this weekend.
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Rained off all weekend... >:(
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Sunny all day yesterday in our game. Played 2's yet again.
Bowled first, oppo posted 265-4 from 52 overs. We (not myself) dropped 6 catches and fielded the worst i have ever seen. I bowled 6-0-43-0 at the end and i must say quite unlucky.
We ended up on 156-8 from 46 overs. I posted 45 and took 23 from 1 over.
Disappointing day
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Sunny all day yesterday in our game. Played 2's yet again.
Bowled first, oppo posted 265-4 from 52 overs. We (not myself) dropped 6 catches and fielded the worst i have ever seen. I bowled 6-0-43-0 at the end and i must say quite unlucky.
We ended up on 156-8 from 46 overs. I posted 45 and took 23 from 1 over.
Disappointing day
Bad luck on the loss, mate, but sounds like a nice little knock - did your new Ayrtek provide any inspiration?!
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Bad luck on the loss, mate, but sounds like a nice little knock - did your new Ayrtek provide any inspiration?!
Wasnt a loss mate, in our league it is a draw, and both teams only collect 'bonus' points.
The helmet was the talk of the dressing room, and all contact details and website was given to those interested. Didn't use the lid during the match as the bowling was that sharp to be honest. Was going to call for it as their opening bowler did try and pin me but decided to pitch it up as the only bouncer went for 6.
Was funny as i kept walking into the changing room and everytime a different person had the lid on. it was nice to get a game in as the rest of the league seemed to be struggling to get a game in.
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Wasnt a loss mate, in our league it is a draw, and both teams only collect 'bonus' points.
The helmet was the talk of the dressing room, and all contact details and website was given to those interested. Didn't use the lid during the match as the bowling was that sharp to be honest. Was going to call for it as their opening bowler did try and pin me but decided to pitch it up as the only bouncer went for 6.
Was funny as i kept walking into the changing room and everytime a different person had the lid on. it was nice to get a game in as the rest of the league seemed to be struggling to get a game in.
Awesome, sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for passing our details on too. Let's hope the lid gets some use once the quicker bowlers come on. Or once the rain finally stops and we actually find the odd pitch with a bit of bounce!
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Awesome, sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for passing our details on too. Let's hope the lid gets some use once the quicker bowlers come on. Or once the rain finally stops and we actually find the odd pitch with a bit of bounce!
Would be grateful for some bouncy pitches! will mean we have some sunshine!
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All games off this weekend but it didn't stop the league fining us! 2nd XI oppo rang up on Friday to say it wasn't playable, our skipper said we normally travel but seeing as a monsoon outside he would take their word for it. Even got a text saying it was a "no show" on friday night for Saturday. Next thing we hear on Saturday evening was the oppo are claiming we never turned up and they were expecting us! We now have to appeal to reverse the points award and fine! Absolute madness, oppo have even admitted the wicket was never playable.
This season we have been shafted left, right and centre by money grabbing Leagues with no common sense, over zealous administrators banning the wrong players and on several occasions blatant deception. No wonder clubs are folding. All we want to do is play cricket.
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Meant to have a T/20 tomorrow night. No-one mention anything about the weather
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3 day tour to kent tomorrow, hoping the weather is nothing like what it is here at the minute :s
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Got both games in this weekend, Saturday was a wet outfield, but today was fantastic! Nice dry track, bone dry outfield and sun shining, what more do you want!? Not so great batting wise though, Saturday we were bowled out for 48 chasing 176 :( I got a steady 2 ball duck in that match. Today we were bowled out again, setting them 84 to win off their 25 overs. I got another steady score, 1 this time :D However we had a great day with the ball and in the field and bowled them out for 62!! Poor weekend with the bat but picked 3-46 yesterday and 3-5 today.
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Rained off all weekend... >:(
Ditto.
T20 cup semi final tomorrow night though
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Rained off all weekend, working next Saturday... Happy days!
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Some how we manage to be one of the only two OCA games to be played yesterday, The pitch was a little damp as you would expect.
We struggled to 166-7 then bowled the opposition out for 17
happy days!!
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Some how we manage to be one of the only two OCA games to be played yesterday, The pitch was a little damp as you would expect.
We struggled to 166-7 then bowled the opposition out for 17
happy days!!
Who were you playing?
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Risinghurst 2nds. third in the table, and today they won the semi final of our cup
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7/8 games cancelled for our club, not to mention all thd colts games. I think I'm getting trench foot!
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Rain rain rain yesterday. Full game in today but sadly lost by 4 wickets. We batted first and got 175 all out in 39, I got 65 before being bowled off of my pad, few other 30s in the innings but wasn't enough as they chased it down easily
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Anyone know what weather & pitches have been like in Cambridge? We on tour there next weekend. Only played 5 games all season and 4 of those had to be played on artificials. The thought no cricket again is depressing.
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Beaver do you play in the wocestershire league??
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Not playing league at the moment but played for Barnard's Green for a number of years. Have 2 youngsters and misses works Saturdays which is a bummer! I'm touring with Flyford Flavell who are a social side.
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Well chaps, kind of played 3 out of 3 games in mostly sunshine this weekend. 1sts would've played but the oppo cried off, 2nds got 183-7 in 45, oppo knocked over for 78. My effort was a hard fought 15* on a sluggish deck and 5-1-7-1. Felt really good with the ball, good line with some turn and bounce. Helped by a little shower around 4pm :-) All the runs were edges through the slip/gully cordon. Had another dropped catch at 1st slip, up to 6 drops by keeper/slips this season.
Sunday we pulled off a great escape from 23-6 to record 133-9 in 40. Oppo seemed in control at 85-3 off 27 but choked and fell 2 runs short. Just a friendly, but nobody likes to lose.
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So far this season we are played six abandoned six...
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Tim
Has my Laver got any runs?
jason
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In our midweek t20 it's scored about 80. Mostly in others hands though!
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Played yesterday for the Sunday 2's against Downend.
Took 3 wickets, getting their first teamer out (bats in top 5), and I'm not even a bowler, I open for my u15s and am a much better batsmen. Scored 0* not with the bat however today
This was only my second spell of bowling in matches in 7 years of playing cricket. First time was this year for the u15's I play for when I took 2 wickets ???
The annoying thing is my parents are now dubbing me as an All-Rounder... I want to be on opening batsmen though! >:(
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FINALLY completed our first league game of the season last Saturday- made 142-8 and skittled our top of the table opponents for 28.
Incredibly, we are now top, and despite only having 1 result, 5 washots and 2 games conceded, the rest of the league have a game in hand on us........
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18868494
Summer is here in the middle of next week..... :)
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Good game this evening, we put on 187 I think, and they fell short at 169ish.
FINALLY got some runs 70 with eight 6's.
And I've fallen in love with my Hattori
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played at the weekend. chased 174 - 4. I was 93 not out batting through the innings. Number 6 came in and hit 35 not out. Including the last 21 runs whilst i was on 93. Leaving me short of a ton.... Who needs enemies with friends like that ey.
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played at the weekend. chased 174 - 4. I was 93 not out batting through the innings. Number 6 came in and hit 35 not out. Including the last 21 runs whilst i was on 93. Leaving me short of a ton.... Who needs enemies with friends like that ey.
That's gutting, well played though.
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Managed to havemy 2nd net in a week last nite, went really well seeing the ball reasonably well and actually moving my feet which is part of where I have been going wrong this season! Hoepfully I'll be allowed to squeeze another net in on Thursday and we'll actually get to play some cricket on the weekend.
My Shark bat is now coming into it's own :D
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Was meant to go to nets last night - but had other things to do! typical when the weather is nice. It's rained over night here, so I'm awaiting the dreaded text to say that my match is off this evening.
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I got 27* in a friendly. Used my homemade bat for the first time. It's nice. Broken finger flared up, but when it's dry, you've got to play, right?
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Indoor nets rained off!!!
Unbelievable and just sums up this season. Booked indoor nets for tonight as last 4 games rained off and we on tour on Friday. Turned up only to be informed the rain had come through the roof and damaged the electrics. We ended up taking the mats out onto the tennis courts and played 5 a side with an old ball. It was a good laugh, especially as we played 6 and out over the fence so high scoring game. At least we played cricket of some sort!
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Got a T20 ton last night!
The other side batted first, put on 164 one of there lads got 110*
In reply we got 164 in around 15 overs, I got 100*
Very good game!
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What a crock of crap!!! My game called off tomorrow, not impressed one little bit!!
Although we did win tonight in the league cup, now into the 1/4 finals. Oh, won on a bowl out. Well, not much of a bowl out, won 2-1 after 10 balls per 6 bowlers. Yep, i never hit.
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Got a T20 ton last night!
The other side batted first, put on 164 one of there lads got 110*
In reply we got 164 in around 15 overs, I got 100*
Very good game!
congrats, well batted
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Got a T20 ton last night!
The other side batted first, put on 164 one of there lads got 110*
In reply we got 164 in around 15 overs, I got 100*
Very good game!
Seems like your on a hot streak at the mo, well done
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wet
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congrats, well batted
Cheers mate, it was a cultured innings hahaSeems like your on a hot streak at the mo, well done
Cheers mate, just need to turn it into Saturday form now as well!
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Midweek game, we play 14 overs of 8 balls. We batted first on a track that was up or down or seaming both ways. Came in at 3, scored 28 not out, was hard to score due to unpredictability of the pitch. We scored 100 for 3 off our 14 overs. We then got them all out for 70. I took 3-20 off 3 overs. But my god, 8 ball overs are hard! Final here we come!
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Today's match called off thanks to last night's downpours leaving the two squares unfit, indeed, the square we were due to use had a puddle that was more like a pond. And the sun is bright and shining...
How frustrating can this get? We now have an unenviable record of abandoned 7, played 6.
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Easy win today, batted first and put up 291 off 48 overs, then bowled them out for 42. I had 125 and 5 for 9 bowling. Good day at the office!
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Another thrashing, another single figure score :(
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Another thrashing, another single figure score :(
At least you played!
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Got winterbourne in quaterfinal tommorow morning with the evening post there, then bath exiles in the afternnon so a day of cricket :)
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We were off today 3 weeks since we played last. Will be out of form by time we play again after carrying my bat for 98no in our last game.
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At least you played!
Surely you didn't not play because of the weather? It was the best track and weather it the season
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Surely you didn't not play because of the weather? It was the best track and weather it the season
Weather was great, but following last weekend downpours through Tuesday, the ground was pretty wet. The downpours you saw at the test hit us on Friday (and were incredibly heavy), and we also had a couple more between 7pm and midnight, with no drying out possible. The rain was so heavy that at 10pm there was about 1/2 an inch of water on the outfield, and the additional rain overnight meant one square had a pond and the other wasn't fit to play today (i.e. when you bounced a ball off it, it brought water to the surface!)...
Roll on Autumn... We might get some play then.
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Wow that's weird, up North our outfield has been bone dry for a few days now. Happy days!!
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We are on clay pitch was fine but outfield different matter, was still squelching under foot, jut managed to cut outfield tonight still really soft in places
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I think our ground is just saturated. We're on the Sand and Gravel in the South East which once soaked, stays that way!
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pretty awful game of cricket. We bowled the oppo out for 51 and won by ten wickets. The oppo consisted of 1 adults, 10 kids of which one guy slogged 34 (he was dropped second ball). They were 45-1 when I came on. Took 6-3-4-5, all clean bowled but they were all kids who couldn't hold a bat much. Finished at 4.30pm and went to watch the 1st team and they chased down 165 for 2 down :D
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Are your team in the right league Nick? It always seems like you batter every team?
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I got 76 today, with my broken finger, coming in a 37-3 that then turned into 38-4 after 20 overs. Ended up 172 ao. Oppo got it with an over to go. Bugger... Blueroom really goes tho :)
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top versus second yesterday, we were inserted and, after a couple of debateable LBWs and a couple of jaffas, were 24-5. Managed to make 184, then had the oppo blocking out from miles away to finish a squeaky draw.
Oh the sledging!
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Are your team in the right league Nick? It always seems like you batter every team?
No we aren't in the right division lol. It's the first year we have had a 2nd XI and naturally started at the bottom. However we had some good players to start with and recruited pretty well during the winter. However we picked up a 11 point deduction for an unregistered player (the league dereigstered him and admitted the rules were flawed) and the top team, despite losing by 7 wickets to us have played every game bar our reverse fixture. Even that game we are having to appeal as they called it off and tried to claim the points!. Our 1st XI getting put into the bottom division, 3 years ago was a complete joke. They've now gone over 1000 days unbeaten in league cricket as a consequence!
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Beautiful sunny day and the oppo cancel 1 hour before start! :( :(
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Good ole' TFC yesterday
A duck today for u15's against a Gloucestershire player... :-[
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Got league game yesterday. Oppo got 209 but unfortunately we fell a few short.
Bowled the best I have this season with no luck and a few dropped catches, only got 21 with the bat.
Presidents day today, got some tap bowling haha. Chasing 184 we fell 10 short.
got 67, thats 258 runs this week I think the most I've scored in a week ever haha!
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Restricted the oppo to 180 for 9 off 45 in the Sunday league. My figures were 9-2-23-2 with four people dropping catches off my bowling and so many just missing the edge it was unreal.
Then we failed to score the 180, falling 20 runs short. My 1 was not very pleasing, especially as I got caught off a full toss by the bowler, for the third time this season. Think I need to rethink how I play those balls...
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Then we failed to score the 180, falling 20 runs short. My 1 was not very pleasing, especially as I got caught off a full toss by the bowler, for the third time this season. Think I need to rethink how I play those balls...
smash em over cow!
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My 1 was not very pleasing, especially as I got caught off a full toss by the bowler, for the third time this season. Think I need to rethink how I play those balls...
I am in the same situation. Got bowled twice of full toss balls!! This was so embarrassing especiall when I was on 77 and 82 respectively and seeing the ball well :(
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smash em over cow!
I've got out i the same why to them, playing a straighbatted drive and not middling it. I think your golf swing it over cow may have a point...
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I've got out i the same why to them, playing a straighbatted drive and not middling it. I think your golf swing it over cow may have a point...
That's what I did earlier on this season, tried to play a straight batted shot mistimed and got out, where as I used to just try and thrash it through mid-on/midwicket and it's worked lately lol.
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lost our 2nd XI Cup Semi. Didn't bat to well on a slow but variable deck to post 73ao in 32 overs. Picked up a duck with a leading edge, very annoyed with myself as my partner was batting well and I needed to hang around. I opened and picked up 8-4-11-4 (including 2 drops!) which reduced them to 26-6, but apart from my opening bowler partner who took 4 as well, we lacked discipline to close the game out and they hung on to win by 2 wickets. Since they thought they had the game won at tea time, you could see the relief on their faces in scraping over the line especially when they play 2 divisions higher (in the same division as our 1s). Weekend figures 14-7-15-9...
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Got 21 off 12 Thursday in our final midweek game ending with 2 successive sixes before being ran out, 5 yesterday after top edging a full toss to mid-on but won but almost 100 runs and puts us top. Beat Downend today which is a brilliant win as we fiedling with 10 for most and 9 for some due to different reasons. We got 240-6 in 40, I got 31 off 25 incl. a 6 before being LBW and got 6-2-33-2 at the end bowling them out for 214. AND some awesome weather to go with it :) happy days.
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Weekend figures 14-7-15-9...
Very tidy!
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I think the best thing about this weekend's cricket has to have been the Sun and playing conditions that were warm and pleasant (ok, hot and sweaty for us bowlers). nice to have proper cricket weather for what feels like the first time this season!
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Won in the league yesterday, beating Brislington by about 100 runs. Contributed 23 opening up before hitting a vertical drive!
Also won today in the sunday league, had a really young team out and was worried we wouldn't give the oppo a decent game. However at 220-0 from 24 overs I changed my mind! Finished on 320-4, and bowled them out for 115. I got exactly 100 :)
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Your 2s had a good day yesterday! http://bedminster.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11361538
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I got exactly 100 :)
Congrats - time to update your stats :)
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Won both games yesterday won our T20 quaterfinal hitting 154-4 of our overs i was not needed to bat, they got 99 of 20 overs which keeps our 100 % playing reord this year up also no teams hit 100 against us this year, and then in the 40 over games yesterday on the most dreaful pitch ive ever played on we bowled bath exiles out for 99 and then chasing it down after 22 overs so all round a good day! Got hanham today aswell in a T20 so all good!
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Having had our oppo cry off last minute yesterday (see earlier post), I decided to go and watch our Sunday 1's play and got roped into playing for them. Batted at 6 and got a 2nd ball duck LBW on back pad,third time it's happened this season, so atleast I know I need to get my bat and pad together!
We set the oppo 213 from 45 overs in a timed game on quite a stodgy wicket. By 6.30 the oppo were on 56-1 with 20 overs remaining, I was expecting them to let loose after this seeing as the run rate was only around 8 an over. They didn't and what followed was probably one of the most tedious 20 overs I have ever played. They pretty much blocked everything (including an over of pie from me) and finished on 116-6, as much as I wanted to play after the rain over the last couple of weeks, I really feel that the oppo ruined the game as a spectacle by not even trying to make a game of it!
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Your 2s had a good day yesterday! [url]http://bedminster.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11361538[/url]
I'm back playing at Minehead now but Bedminster had a good day! The windies only had 9 players which takes the shine off a bit, but still a good effort!
Congrats - time to update your stats :)
Thanks a lot! Yeah good point, wouldn't have realised if you didn't say!
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Having had our oppo cry off last minute yesterday (see earlier post), I decided to go and watch our Sunday 1's play and got roped into playing for them. Batted at 6 and got a 2nd ball duck LBW on back pad,third time it's happened this season, so atleast I know I need to get my bat and pad together!
We set the oppo 213 from 45 overs in a timed game on quite a stodgy wicket. By 6.30 the oppo were on 56-1 with 20 overs remaining, I was expecting them to let loose after this seeing as the run rate was only around 8 an over. They didn't and what followed was probably one of the most tedious 20 overs I have ever played. They pretty much blocked everything (including an over of pie from me) and finished on 116-6, as much as I wanted to play after the rain over the last couple of weeks, I really feel that the oppo ruined the game as a spectacle by not even trying to make a game of it!
I'm assuming this was a friendly?? If that's the case then that kind of behaviour from the oppo is a disgrace! No honour in a draw on a Sunday unless it happens by accident! I'd rather lose a game on a Sunday going for a win than block out 20 overs and turn the day into a pointless exercise....some people just don't get it do they? :D
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Bit naughty if no points were at stake, and not much incentive for any guys who didn't bat or bowl on their team to want to attend again.
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It happens in timed cricket which is why many friendlies are 40 overs per side win/lose. I always liked timed cricket as it allowed a strong side to give the weaker team more chance by declaring early. The oppo in this game may say 213 was too many given the wicket and the relative strengths of the teams. Valid points from their perspective.
Timed cricket has it's uses in teaching players to think about such things and to train captains to think out of the box in terms of wicket taking and sizing up a declaration. Win/Lose cricket produces a lot of non-thinking cricket in this regard.
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its a tough call between the two formats - personally I prefer timed cricket because it teaches youngsters the game the right way, using their brains. But you're horribly reliant upon opposition sides being honest about their strength and playing the game int he right way - have had a few nightmares taking a team of colts to games only to have strong sides who had advertised as weak run up 300+.
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I'm assuming this was a friendly?? If that's the case then that kind of behaviour from the oppo is a disgrace! No honour in a draw on a Sunday unless it happens by accident! I'd rather lose a game on a Sunday going for a win than block out 20 overs and turn the day into a pointless exercise....some people just don't get it do they? :D
Yes it was a friendly, their skipper said he wanted to give everyone a game which is fair enough, but they barely even attempted to play any shots! My over went for 4 which consisted of 3 wides (2 of which Harmison would of been proud of) and a no ball beamer! All my "better" balls were blocked, and give you an idea I barely bowl in nets, unless we have a low attendance!
Our skipper actually managed to ensure everyone got a game, so I'm not too sure how their excuse holds up, I'll have a think about it and let you know if I come up with any answers!
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its a tough call between the two formats - personally I prefer timed cricket because it teaches youngsters the game the right way, using their brains. But you're horribly reliant upon opposition sides being honest about their strength and playing the game int he right way - have had a few nightmares taking a team of colts to games only to have strong sides who had advertised as weak run up 300+.
you are but it says more about the oppo and the lack of common sense in target setting. We rarely went above 200-250 and that depended on the wicket. In friendlies you need a damn good excuse to spank up 300+. Then again if you can't see that, I suppose you'll be the kind of team who puts yourself down as "weak" when you aren't. Ultimately you lose the fixture as all clubs want is an even game.
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you are but it says more about the oppo and the lack of common sense in target setting. We rarely went above 200-250 and that depended on the wicket. In friendlies you need a damn good excuse to spank up 300+. Then again if you can't see that, I suppose you'll be the kind of team who puts yourself down as "weak" when you aren't. Ultimately you lose the fixture as all clubs want is an even game.
Worst one I saw was a side whose skipper came in at the fall of the first wicket and made a ton - about twenty short he said "you know, I've never made a hundred" to our keeper, so we gave hima generous wound of applause when he got there, even though the last 25 came in swipes to a short legside boundary off a 13 year old off spinner in his first senior game.
You might expect said gent to then retire, perhaps even decalre as its gone four and they're better than 24 for two down....
...nope, he immediately says to the kepper "you know, I've never made 150 either" and batted on until we ran him out backing up on 137. He wasn't happy about that...he was even less happy when, set 300 plus in no more than 35 we declined to chase!
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Give me 40 overs each any day of the week. It just saves on all this nonsense, and you end up with a clear result at the end!
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Give me 40 overs each any day of the week. It just saves on all this nonsense, and you end up with a clear result at the end!
makes it worse as teams don't declare at a sensible total and instead bat the overs. It does stop the old trick of bowling first and going at 12/13 overs an hour to force an early declaration ie. timed games you normally finish 1st innings in 2 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours - that ought to be 45-50 overs.
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played a game against Yorkshire Gentleman for Halifax Nomads a few years ago. They said it was a timed game but inquired about when roughly tea might be. Our skipper thinking nothing about it said "4.30ish I suppose". We were making decent progress with the bat when bang on 4.30pm the fielding team walked off. We wanted a couple more overs batting time as it had been wet and we hadn't received that many overs. We didn't have a choice and had to come off. We were seething at tea!. If that wasn't bad enough:-
One of our guys keeled over on the pitch with a suspected heart attack. He was taken by ambulance to hospital but we wanted to continue as it's what he would of wanted. Anyway, we made inroads and with 7 balls left we took the penultimate wicket. The skipper refused to come out and we celebrated a victory. The captain claimed he was shaken by the incident and didn't want to bat. It was only later we saw their scorebook and it read "Match Drawn". Gents, far from it!
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Disappointingly on the nicest night of the season our oppo couldnt get a team last night. Apparently the excuse was that when their team found out where the fixture was they all cried off saying they couldn't get to our ground in time. Bit dodgy really as they've played at our ground in each of the last two years - we think as we're top of the league they just wanted to avoid a hiding.
Gives us the points which means we've won the league but not a good way to wrap it up. We all decided not to tell the other halves that it had been cancelled and went for a rare practice session in the sun and a pint to celebrate.
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Your 2s had a good day yesterday! [url]http://bedminster.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11361538[/url]
68 extras!? Including 44 wides!? Who was bowling? Steve Harmison?
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Personally, I don't like timed games, as whenever we bat second, our captain never has any inclination to chase the target unless it is ridiculously low. Saying that we have had some sunday timed games where a team batted through till half 6, so we only got 20 overs. Some people really do take the michael...
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Our league games are 46 overs per side, but you can declare early and forfeit the remaining overs to the other side, giving you more chance to bowl them out - and them more chance to get them. The same happens if you don't bat out all your overs - though usually in that scenario chasing is a moot point as you don't have much to defend. Batting second, and sometimes with as few as 7 players, we've had to try to bat out for a losing draw on quite a few occasions as chasing the total wasn't really in the equation.
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Our league games usually total 90 overs and you can bat a maximum of 47 in the 1st innings
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Won our quarter final last night. Bowled the other team out for 116, I got a run out but dropped a difficult catch and 2 other poor throws which would've resulted in run outs. Batting wasn't much better. Got a run a ball 15 having been dropped behind on 0 I was bowled by a peach that nipped back a yard or so and clipped off stump's bail. We won by 8 wickets with a couple of overs to spare so looking forward to the semi-final on Sunday morning now.
Keep your fingers crossed for us as it's the furthest our club has been!
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Toured Cambridge at the weekend. Missed the Friday game as working so went down on Saturday. Game called off due to water logged pitch so played golf most of the day. Sunday played Fordham CC who are in Prem div of local league. Total miss match as my Sunday team are social side and fixture secretary hadn't told them. They were great and adjusted the bowling accordingly. Went in at 120-3 and their umpire gave me out lbw second ball despite a massive inside edge. Long way to go for a second ball duck!!!
In their innings the umpire gave their opener not out to a plumb lbw saying he'd edged it, which no one heard. Selective hearing from the old boy! Didn't disgrace ourselves and bowled ok so we didn't give too many easy runs. Think they were glad of the batting practice as like most teams have not played much.
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Played my old team last night who i left to go and play at a higher standard, been batting ok but as luck would have it out 3 ball for 1 trying to drive a ball that didn't bounce and toe ended it up in the air
Got heckled from a guy who's top score in the last 2 years is 27 and averages 8.5 2 years running
Got to love playing old team-mates!
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Tough luck Kieron - o sic transit gloria mundi - as I often say to myself!
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Latin? Nice and deep meaning......"How quickly the glory of the world passes away"
I say something similar when things happen to me! The phrase I use if "Oh Sh1tbags!" Similar but not as deep! ;)
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Huge game tomorrow, personally and in the league! Playing for my old club, against m old club... If that makes sense! Minehead vs. Bedminster, should be a good'un as long as I don't drink too much thatchers tonight!
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2nd win of the season today! Woo :D
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Played my old club today. we lost but I scored 4 not out and took 2 for 32 off 8 which was not bad considering I have not played a league game for about 2 months... bring on next Saturday...
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won easily today but when we were 36-4 it didn't look straight forward. Scored 215-8 and then bowled them out for 78. Following on from little kids last week I treated myself to a man, women and kid in my 4-1-6-3. Need to get out of this division!
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Played my old team last night who i left to go and play at a higher standard, been batting ok but as luck would have it out 3 ball for 1 trying to drive a ball that didn't bounce and toe ended it up in the air
Got heckled from a guy who's top score in the last 2 years is 27 and averages 8.5 2 years running
Got to love playing old team-mates!
did you tell him to shut his (no swearing please) mouth and talk to you once he had some runs to talk about .... i would have.
if someone dishes it out you have to give it back
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Got a game in the 1's yesterday. We batted first and posted 266 all out from 52 overs. I batted at 9 and got 42 from 17 balls. Their innings came to a close on 209-9 from 44 overs. I hate draws!
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Managed to beat the team I joined at the start of this season after returning back to my original club yesterday. They batter first and hit 224 with ex Gloucestershire and Leicestershire batsman Rob Cunliffe hitting 112, off a whopping 157 balls. In reply we had a good start but fell to 100-6, then a brilliant 73* from our no.8 saw us home with 5 balls to spare! Was a great game, I scored 38 which was nice, bearing in mind when i was playing for them last month they were about to drop me to the 3's as they said i wasn't good enough for the 2's let alone the 1's!
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Managed to beat the team I joined at the start of this season after returning back to my original club yesterday. They batter first and hit 224 with ex Gloucestershire and Leicestershire batsman Rob Cunliffe hitting 112, off a whopping 157 balls. In reply we had a good start but fell to 100-6, then a brilliant 73* from our no.8 saw us home with 5 balls to spare! Was a great game, I scored 38 which was nice, bearing in mind when i was playing for them last month they were about to drop me to the 3's as they said i wasn't good enough for the 2's let alone the 1's!
Revenge is sweet.
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Got a game in the 1's yesterday. We batted first and posted 266 all out from 52 overs. I batted at 9 and got 42 from 17 balls. Their innings came to a close on 209-9 from 44 overs. I hate draws!
I saw you got a few mate, well done.... Looks like you boys need a few wins?
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Lost to a right bunch of ***** yesterday! We have beaten them almost every time for 3-4 years now and after they chased down out 224 with an over to spare one of their openers shook our hands for the first time after always mysteriously disappearing everytime they lost.. At the end of the day its a game and if you can't shake the oppositions hand after losing then you really need to re-evaluate your sad and pathetic life.
I have been struggling with my bowling recently however due to how short of players we are I'm forced to stay in the 1st team rather than dropping to the 2nd's where I could also work on my batting..
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Got a call up a bit out of the blue to play yesterday in a Channel Island League fixture away in Jersey.
With only 1 score of more than 10 in a game that's finished so far I was more than a little surprised to be asked to open the batting but luckily had instructions to go and tee off straight away and managed to make 31 off 28 balls although got dropped twice on 0 and 5, I'd have taken any score of 10+ at the start of the game. Unfortunately we lost, made 196 for 9 in 50 batting first which wasn't quite enough, they got it in 40.2 overs 6 down, we needed another 40 or 50 runs probably.
http://www.sportstatz.com/ss/web.asp?club=1257&mode=100&match=12131
Hopefully I can now get some runs over the remaining fixtures I have but I won't hold my breath.
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I saw you got a few mate, well done.... Looks like you boys need a few wins?
Need more than a few mate. Not going to go into much detail, but you must remember what i said at the start of the season. Need to win 4 of the last 6 games i think.
I got tucked right into their overseas bowling, took him for 5 six's, sending one of them onto the 3rd team pitch, he got me last ball.
See you and Resh got a few between you, well done.
Whats this i hear you dropped a dolly yesterday? lol
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news travels fast eh, i cant catch a cold this season lol
looks like we might be playing against each other next season then...
you must have been gutted, one wicket away from 25 points
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news travels fast eh, i cant catch a cold this season lol
looks like we might be playing against each other next season then...
you must have been gutted, one wicket away from 25 points
There is nothing worse than having a team 9 down. If a miracle doesnt happen, then you will be filling your boots with the best tea's in Essex, and probably the country ;)
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gotta love being out on 99 :(
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Lost our semi-final today which was bad, I didn't help much opening and getting caught one handed at deep point for 4 off 5 then rushed off to be sick and try and recover to field, didn't happen in the end so one of our guys watching had his kit and fielded.
Won our 1st XI league game yesterday holding the oppo to 183-9 in 45. We got it 5 wickets down with 17 overs left. I got 55 off 61 opening in a 100+ 3rd wicket partnership which was good.
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Oh and our 4th XI played against Ian Harvey. Yes, the Australian World cup winner Ian Harvey
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Oh and our 4th XI played against Ian Harvey. Yes, the Australian World cup winner Ian Harvey
Dear me did he perform?
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Got to 40 odd then was lobbing catches up and bowled offspin but wicketless
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My season has been pathetic. I got hit for 3 sixes in a over 3 months ago. I havent been bowling well from that time that affected my batting as well.
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did you tell him to shut his (no swearing please) mouth and talk to you once he had some runs to talk about .... i would have.
if someone dishes it out you have to give it back
When he must be 45 years old and i'm 20 and I took the opportunity to try myself at a better level and he gives me a send off like that I didn't even think he was worth the effort of turning around really.
Very very sad bitter men at my old club as you can probably guess!
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When he must be 45 years old and i'm 20 and I took the opportunity to try myself at a better level and he gives me a send off like that I didn't even think he was worth the effort of turning around really.
Very very sad bitter men at my old club as you can probably guess!
I've had this. I moved after 11 years at my last club to a better one. We played them near the start of the season and I didn't get much grief. We played them 3rd game of the season and posted 264-8, then they batted out for the draw from ball one, reaching 180-3! Then played them again a few weeks ago and let them bat first. All out for 78 and then knocked them off 3 down. Unfortunately I got a duck, and plenty of grief. Disappointing when you've played there since you were 13 for 11 years but I suppose that doesn't count for much anymore! Big smiles after the game after they had been humiliated. There's no comeback to that!
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Oh and our 4th XI played against Ian Harvey. Yes, the Australian World cup winner Ian Harvey
It's true, the Harv made his debut for Bedminster 5ths...
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Busted my finger today, those that follow me on twitter would have seen them
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@liamtoohill
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Im playing my 3rd match of the year tomorrow as its a bank holiday in ireland. Im really looking forward to it
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Batted my second innings with my new Blackcat yesterday. The Captain asked me to open, normally bat at 6. My first over on strike i got a bouncer, two body liners and one to the nuts. What a start to a relaxing Sunday morning.
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Played a game against an Indian touring side today. Don't want to say too much because it was frustrating all day and I won't be playing under that captain again. Personally I bowled terribly or words to that effect for 5 overs then got 20 off 21 before being bowled off of my pad again. One positive today, extra cover drive for 6 hitting someone in the bowls green, my best shot ever.
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No game tomorrow, can't raise a team again & it's sunny & beautiful weather. Gutted
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4 wins/winning draws on the bounce and we are starting to climb up the table. Weekend off soon and we are playing the national side of Switzerland in a T20!
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To be honest I wish this season would be over! I started OK, but with not be able to play or net on a regular basis because of the weather any form that I did have has long gone!
I just hope I'll be able to post a couple of decent scores between now and the end of the season as I feel all I'm doing at the moment is making up the numbers, which isn't great!
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Had a good game last weekend, played Taunton CC and won by about 100 runs. We we stuck in on a wet wicket, and I managed to contribute 69. Gave some guy who captained Somerset 2nds last week a bit of a whack too... He opened the batting for them and hit 41 and looked really really good!
Leaves us 10 points clear at the top of the Bristol and Somerset Division, with 4 games to spare! Up the Minehead :)
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Wanted to play for the 2nd's today so I could get a bat(I've only batted 3 times on a Saturday this season) but was forced to stay in the 1st team. Our game got called off as our opponents only had 7 players but the 2nd's game is still on. Really frustrating as there are only 2 weeks of the season left.. Atleast we are finally going to get a Sunday game in, every one we have tried to play we have either not had enough players or it has been rained off.. Rubbish season.
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Won yesterday by 5 wickets, the oppo got 147-7 in their 45 and we got it with a few overs to spare. Not easy for me to play my normal game so I hung around with our other opener giving nothing away to try and get as close as we could without loss. I got 27 off 58 before edging the spinner to the keeper so off I walked but managed to get over halfway there before we lost our first wicket so quite happy.
Also nice to have an old Spitfire fly overhead for about 15 minutes due to the nearby balloon fiesta. I do like the good ol Spitfires :D
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Got myself a nice 100 odd not out yesterday making my debut for a club in surrey - also took 3 wickets in 3 overs which was nice.
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Got myself a nice 100 odd not out yesterday making my debut for a club in surrey - also took 3 wickets in 3 overs which was nice.
What club in surrey have you joined?
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We won our 40 over game today by 245 runs with extras being the 2nd top scorer after we made 315 in the first innings and then bowling out the oppo for 70. I only made 20 but it was a good overall team win.
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First ton of the season today. I got 103* off of 120 with 12 fours and 1 six. We bowled the oppo out with the last ball of their innings for 166, I bowled 6-0-28-0 so not too bad but could've been better. I opened with my mate and we've put on 340 in our last 3 innings for the loss of one, today followed the pattern putting on 110 before he got out for 40. As we got closer to the finish I didn't think I'd make it but a combination of defensive batting from the other end saving wides etc and the umpire awarding byes instead of wides left me on 97* with 1 run needed to win and the bowler dug one in which I pulled over the ropes for 6. Don't think I've been so relieved walking off of a cricket pitch!
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Managed 2 in atotal of 237 yesterday. We had our oppo 8 down in the 15th over for about 40. What followed was 25 overs of incredibly dull cricket, as the 2 batters out there blocked for their livrs as they wanted to annoy their skipper...
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Won Sat. Oppo ground out 117-9 in 45 tedious overs. I picked up 4-24 off my 12. Oppo weren't very good and seemed more intent of depriving us of a bowling point than getting a decent total, which says everything about the attitude of some clubs. Knocked it off for 3 down in 23 overs with few dramas.
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turned out for tumos lot as a one off, missed out on a big ton.
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turned out for tumos lot as a one off, missed out on a big ton.
Yeah, shame about that! Didn't help we only had 9 men mind fella! 2 more men and we'd have turned them over big style, just been that sort of season for us. Only got 7 for this coming Saturday too, out of our entire registered squad!
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What club in surrey have you joined?
I haven't joined them as such, as I was around in the area and had been in contact with them about playing before for them as the field backs on to my girlfriends house - but I played for Seveno CC, they play in a friendly league but will be looking to join a club that plays competitive cricket next season as I move down to Surrey at the end of September.
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Whereabouts in surrey you moving to?
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Used the H4L for the first time on Saturday and got 58 from 44 balls against our very near neighbours (they are literally 10 feet across the road), and we won which is always nice as its a bit of a grudge match!! :)
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Whereabouts in surrey you moving to?
I'm moving to Morden, near Wimbledon - I have had a bit of contact with Morden CC, however they seem to be in a bit of trouble financially so I'm not sure whether they'll be around next season.
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I believe they are. I live in Morden myself. Currently, I play at cheam, but there's plenty of clubs in the area. Mitcham is one of the oldest in the country, Wimbledon are a big club, as are Sutton. There's also Worcester Park. Just drop me a PM if there's anything you want to know.
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I believe they are. I live in Morden myself. Currently, I play at cheam, but there's plenty of clubs in the area. Mitcham is one of the oldest in the country, Wimbledon are a big club, as are Sutton. There's also Worcester Park. Just drop me a PM if there's anything you want to know.
I drove through Mitcham yesterday and there was a cricket match going on, do they play next to a pub on a junction? Looks like a very small ground!
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Yep. That is, I believe the oldest ground in the country.
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Yep. That is, I believe the oldest ground in the country.
Certainly wouldn't mind batting on that! Must see plenty of 6's there!
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I've seen one hit a car stopped outside the pub on the corner before now...
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Got our first win on Saturday since 9th June which was a huge relief to say the least!
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Finally re-found form with 103 off 70ish knocking off 255 for the loss of 4 wickets using 36 of our 45 overs. Was a surprise result for everyone as we are in a relegation spot and they're top of our division. 2 of my 3 6's narrowly missed windows and 1 landed straight on someone's bmw - they were not amused especially as our insurance only covers moving vehicles!
good win on saturday for the team, 237-4 and bowled them out in the last over for 150ish, credit to them they did attempt to chase for most of their innings unlike some teams that go for the draw from ball 1
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Finally able to show off our new scoreboard haha
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Batted yuffff
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Well done! Decent knock fella 8)
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All Ayrtek'd up apart from pads and bat haha although not many will tell off of this forum ;)
Cheers Pete
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Is that a GM tucked under your arm?
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Icon 606?
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Epic 909
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Tis the Icon 606, what a bargain that is
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Tis the Icon 606, what a bargain that is
Humm - I have a virtually unused one of those, perhaps I should think about taking it out of the garage for a game!
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Don't let the model number put you off. It's still a GM and if you like them then there is no reason why you shouldn't like a 606 ;)
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Don't let the model number put you off. It's still a GM and if you like them then there is no reason why you shouldn't like a 606 ;)
Agree with that - although the Hero may have to make way after using the H4L for the first time on Sat!!!
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What did you use yesterday? I've heard about the game
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Thick old handle on that bad boy
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Only two grips but it feels better that way
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What did you use yesterday? I've heard about the game
Used the GM as it was wet - got a good one from their overseas....
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We got a bit of a spanking didn't we? Did anyone get humped
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Yeah, shame about that! Didn't help we only had 9 men mind fella! 2 more men and we'd have turned them over big style, just been that sort of season for us. Only got 7 for this coming Saturday too, out of our entire registered squad!
great effort to get close, we had them rattled big time.
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great effort to get close, we had them rattled big time.
And it turns out not just one but two of our lads were injured, you seen Cam's FB status? Best he's batted all season and he had a broken bloody thumb! Madness!
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And it turns out not just one but two of our lads were injured, you seen Cam's FB status? Best he's batted all season and he had a broken bloody thumb! Madness!
brave effort, we must have put a few on?
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brave effort, we must have put a few on?
Couldn't tell you for sure mate, but best part of a ton I'd guess?
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our season is nothing short of a disaster
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our season is nothing short of a disaster
Ours isn't far off that mate!
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i did well not to swear bud and despite netting nearly every night its just not helping, we have some good players but we are all out of form with the bat and struggling massively.
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Got our 3rd win of the season and our 1st now iv taken over as 1st team captain :)
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i did well not to swear bud and despite netting nearly every night its just not helping, we have some good players but we are all out of form with the bat and struggling massively.
I net most nights, working on bowling, but not everybody wants to net, too much hassle, or worried not enough people come down, like there's no commitment! We've only had 4 50s all season, and 2 of them came yesterday, and all but 1 have been in a losing cause. We can't put out a consistent bowling attack, we can't put out a consistent line-up, and (like yesterday) we struggle to even put out a side! It's so disheartening!
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I net most nights, working on bowling, but not everybody wants to net, too much hassle, or worried not enough people come down, like there's no commitment! We've only had 4 50s all season, and 2 of them came yesterday, and all but 1 have been in a losing cause. We can't put out a consistent bowling attack, we can't put out a consistent line-up, and (like yesterday) we struggle to even put out a side! It's so disheartening!
not all doom and gloom for you ben, mylo and gaz are good young bowlers + big dave impressed me, if he carries on improving at that rate he will be class. holv will put it on the spot and you're a good bowler. cam showed some grit and brummy looked good. beany could easily do what i did and all of a sudden you're giving those sorts of teams good game. add in a couple of players to actually make 11 and you'll be beating them.
keep the faith!
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not all doom and gloom for you ben, mylo and gaz are good young bowlers + big dave impressed me, if he carries on improving at that rate he will be class. holv will put it on the spot and you're a good bowler. cam showed some grit and brummy looked good. beany could easily do what i did and all of a sudden you're giving those sorts of teams good game. add in a couple of players to actually make 11 and you'll be beating them.
keep the faith!
Mylo doesn't know whether he'll be at our place next season, and Beanie won't turn out on Sundays very often, if at all, same goes with Holv! Gaz goes into the army next year, bit like at Timbo you get a side together with some young talent and they all separate for different reasons! Shame really, but if we get Hargy and Rhodesy will be alright!
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We got a bit of a spanking didn't we? Did anyone get humped
It was a proper stuffing!! I nearly took a tumble but apart from that the ball was going to the boundary too quickly to chase...
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Good win in our LMS match last night. Having restricted the opposition to 137 off 20, with them scoring only 17 of the last 7, we scored the required runs inside 16 overs to take full bonus points. Didn't need to bat and we had some good tight bowling.
Special mention has to go to the Laver & Wood Reserve Ultra I acquired earlier in the season. It has managed to score around 300 runs in T20s this season, sadly mostly in others hands, and the guy who scored 50 in 5 overs yesterday used it and reckoned it was all middle!
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Bowled and fielded awfully on Saturday but then hit an average unbeaten 50 against the strongest bowling attack in the league. Then hit a worse unbeaten 50 on Sunday as we got beaten again. Unfortunately we got done over by the rain on Sunday they took took our run rate to work out what they needed off only 20 overs which made a mockery of the game.
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Whoop! We won our Last Man Stands league by virtue of the favourites losing last night! Unexpected and most excellent result!
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Until yesterdays match I was in severe danger of ending up with more wickets 21 than runs 23 (from 11 games, 7 innings), however a stunning 11, has now rendered that very unlikely.
Always been a bowler who manages the odd knock, but for some reason this year I have just been getting out inside 5-6 balls every time :(
And this is despite playing 30 over matches where i can only bowl 6 overs.
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Until yesterdays match I was in severe danger of ending up with more wickets 21 than runs 23, however a stunning 11, has now rendered that very unlikely.
Always been a bowler who manages the odd knock, but for some reason this year I have just been getting out inside 5-6 balls every time :(
I'm currently on 28 runs 29 wickets! And that was including my 2nd top score of the season on Sunday (4, if you must ask, glorious whip through square leg...) but I've been batting at 9-11 this season instead of 6+7 like I did for my old club! A shame, as last season I managed to get to 20 no less than 3 times (which is no mean feat for me!) And I've got less runs in this season than in my top score (just ONE innings!) last season! Sigh, I'll get into the 30s even if it kills me...
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I've got 498runs with 21 wickets so far this season between my saturday & t20 games - however I've only played 5 saturday games this season. Not bad going for my standards to be honest.
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After the season I'm having I'm already looking forward to next seasons cricket. Which should hopefully be full season.
Consistent runs in at least the 20s and well maybe make myself into a bowler. But have to say my bowling stats this year have been amazing.
4balls for 2 runs and 1 wicket (they only needed 2 runs and my overhead height no ball was classed as a dead ball as that is no way to finish a game apparently).
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We lost last Saturday, rolled out for 161 and the oppo knocked them off 6 down. I got 35 off 30 opening up before getting bowled off my pad. Need to win the last 3 games as it's getting seriously close at the top of the league!
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Won our second game at the weekend lifting us from the bottom of the table with one game left.
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Big game tomorrow against the top of the league and currently I have 10 players - pretty much sums up the season.
Currently 3rd from bottom, 1 point away from relegation with 4 games left to go - not really what I was hoping for when I took over as skipper this year ???.
At the beginning of the season I looked at the team and thought I'd be struggling to fit all the players in - I counted 15 when I tried to pick my best team. The reality has been somewhat different with people being unavailable through work and other commitments.
On a personal note I've finally found a bit of form with the bat - knocking 43* batting at 9. I open bowling, so usually bat myself down the order but can see a captains prerogative taking place tomorrow 8)
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We lost last Saturday, rolled out for 161 and the oppo knocked them off 6 down. I got 35 off 30 opening up before getting bowled off my pad. Need to win the last 3 games as it's getting seriously close at the top of the league!
Just had a gander on your play-cricket profile Ian, you don't like to run much do you?! 35 including 6 4's and a 6, week before 69 including 6 4's and 4 6's! I reckon you've hit more boundaries in your last 2 games than I've hit runs all season! Hahaha
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Gutted to miss out on 100 today, got my highest ever score for the 1's which was 95. Got to 50 in the 8th over whilst my opening partner was still on 1 haha. We won by 8 wickets which is the main thing and one more win and we're promoted. Yay
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I heard that a few times as I was walking off :( I was bowled too!
Nice that 2 of their players clapped when I got 50 and one even came up to me and said "too many chances, was rubbish". He got 3 runs.
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Haven't been on a while. Started the season keeping and batting 3 in the 3rd team, moved up to the 2s and kept batted 5 averaging 27ish.
So yesterday, got a chance to play in the 1s. Was keeping and batting 6. Came in 119-4, in a bit of trouble. Had a good partnership with our first drop, and batted for maybe 27 overs in the heat for 41 off 73. Was really pleased with it, as it shows I am ready for cricket at that level. I think it was the most work I've ever done, I was sweating out of my eyes at one point. :(
Kept okay too, only 2 byes which I was pleased about.
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Horrible day yesterday. Played a T20 inter-club game for my Sunday team then went and played a 45 over game for my Saturday team. We had 10 players and didn't get there within 15 minutes of the match start time so apparently the league rules meant we forfeited the toss(I was playing in the 2nd lowest division in Norfolk, it's supposed to be more of a social division rather than win at all costs..) so they put us in the field. Bowled my first 5 overs for 12 runs and they were 22-1 off 10. They finished on 251-9 off 45 and I finished off my 12 overs with figures of 2-64 :( .
I had completely overheated by the end of the innings so spent Tea cooling myself down, drinking water and trying to stop myself being sick rather than eating, we then went out to bat and got all out for 112, I came in at number 8 and got 1 run before prodding one straight into the hands of silly point.
Overall a terrible day however atleast we got a game in, on Friday afternoon we only had 7 players and the captain was thinking of calling it off(which would have included a 16 point penalty) however we got 6 points and the team above us only got 5 which means we are now only 0.051 behind them(it is points/games played) so if we win our final game of the season next week we might be able to avoid relegation. Hopefully it isn't quite as hot next week.
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Won yesterday chasing 139 in a 35 over game, came down the the last over!
I batted terribly again.
Kept wicket with three byes, a catch and a run out. Couldn't catch anything in the first 10 overs, but the last 25 I got better.
Not bad for a part time keeper though
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Opened the batting for the ones the first time ever, chasing 237 on a good deck and got into the mindset of smacking everything out the ground and it worked for a while and then ended up missing a straight one on 49 off around 30 balls was a bit gutted but i did my job i suppose!
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Got 40 yesterday should have walked on 10 but as only had 9 thought sod it. Continued then to hit lots of drives dealing in boundaries. Before hitting full toss to cover. This is my weakness knee high full tosses keeping going to cover.
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Season on the whole for the team has been awful and we stare relegation in the face and the possibility of losing a few players but yesterday with five under 15's turning out for the 1sts against a team second in the league, we gave a good account of ourselves.
Okay we lost, but only just and made the opposition work for their win and you could see the relief on their faces when they took our last wicket.
On a personal note, I think I'll stick around, I like the club and the guys and where else would a 52 year old wicket keeper in his first season after a break of 12 years enjoy his cricket like I do.
And the glass is always half full
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Won yesterday. Bowled oppo out for 65, Nick Saunders now plays for us and bowled
Quality! We won by 7 wickets I got 33no despite receiving a massive amount of vocal abuse of sorts!!
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Lost again yesterday, which means we've lost every game played this year!! I batted well yesterday, came in at no.4 where we were 4 for 2, I scored 34, in around 14 overs, where our opener ( my brother) scored 4 in that period. Apparently he couldn't get his eye in!! All out for around 80 odd I think chasing 150.
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Played for a friendly team called Barford who are a virtual over 40s team who play very social Sunday stuff. Oppo got 154-6 in 40 and we knocked them off for 5 down with nearly 3 overs to spare. Followed up on yesterday with the yawn inducing figures of 7-4-8-0 and a cheeky 13* to see my team home.
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My team had nailsea in a t20 final today i didnt play as i had to leave to go on holiday our top 6 players were out infact... But we won we only had 9 men aswell we posted 86-6 of 20 our lowest ever score! And got them all out for 51 happy days! :D
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Question for the Bristolians. What day is 'cricketer of the week' in the Evening Post? I know I won't win it but want to see if I feature.
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Thought it was on a Tuesday usually mate....
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Looked good in my 13 on saturday, then missed a straight one. Took a sharp catch at slip to go with it.
6 on sunday, getting out caught and bowled, the bowler needing about 13 attempts to take the catch, although I did manage to break his finger with the drive! Took another 2 catches at mid on, 1 high steepler taken at the 2nd attempt, and a low stinging drive that i took using the wrist/knee combo, that is now proving rather painful!
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Came in at number 7 yesterday, which was one of the highest batting positions I've been given this summer, and made my top score of the summer (an unbeaten 38). Unfortunately was in a losing effort though...
Actually had nine innings this year, and only got out three times. At least I will lead the side in one statistical category at least - the good old N.O.! :)
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My team had nailsea in a t20 final today i didnt play as i had to leave to go on holiday our top 6 players were out infact... But we won we only had 9 men aswell we posted 86-6 of 20 our lowest ever score! And got them all out for 51 happy days! :D
Was a good effort that, 86 looked a very low total but your lot bowled and fielded very well.
Best performance of the day was in the U11's final. Young lad in an Ayrtek for Bristol CC retired on 25, came back in as they only had 8 players and ended up with 60 odd then took 4 wickets in 4 balls when bowling!
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est performance of the day was in the U11's final. Young lad in an Ayrtek for Bristol CC retired on 25, came back in as they only had 8 players and ended up with 60 odd then took 4 wickets in 4 balls when bowling!
he likes a game then... ;)
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Haha yes fair to say he got good value for his subs that day ;)
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yeah, we have a few like that - yesterday we had a guy opening the bowling, keep for twenty odd overs, bowl at the death, open the batting then leave as soon as he was out!
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Now that's just plain rude!
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Good to see the lids getting around the local area....played 2 games over the weekend and maanged to win them both.
Should now be safe from the drop on a Saturday after beating 3rd in the table. Managed to battle my hangover yesterday and scored 43 off 16 balls to see us home chasing 131.
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I had quite a few of the opposition saying how much they liked my ayrtek lid yesterday.
Threw away another promising start yesterday when I holed out to long off for 39. I'm really trying to bat more sensibly this year but I just can't help myself sometimes, first 4 balls I faced were 6, should have been out lbw, 6, 4 but after that I calmed down a bit.
Annoyed not to get 50 as I've not had one since 2010 now but overall really pleased as I'm now on 291 runs for the year in 13 innings which is better than the target i set and easily my best ever. If only it hadn't rained as much this year I might have got a few more.
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Now that's just plain rude!
to be fair, he'd said that he needed to leave at six and we were short. But he was out at five, showered and left rather than doing an umpiring or scoring stint...
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Thought it was on a Tuesday usually mate....
Cheers Tom
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Good to see the lids getting around the local area....played 2 games over the weekend and maanged to win them both.
Should now be safe from the drop on a Saturday after beating 3rd in the table. Managed to battle my hangover yesterday and scored 43 off 16 balls to see us home chasing 131.
Good win for your lot Saturday, good effort to hold your own in your first year in that division.
We are still not safe after somehow conspiring to be bowled out for 107 by the bottom side :( made even worse by the fact that due to injury I batted at 11 and didn't keep. I did have an excellent view of our woeful batting as I umpired for 30 overs though >:(
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Managed to battle my hangover yesterday and scored 43 off 16 balls to see us home chasing 131.
Cant believe I got out as the pie chuckers came on!!! :D
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Saturdays game was quality. We bowled opposition out for 180ish. opened and bowled a load of rubbish. Then me and other opener put on 184 without loss and one by 10 wkts. Other opener 107no and myself 62no. Now third i think in the table but unlikely for promotion (as only winner goes up)
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Played 85 overs of cricket over the weekend, scored one run then got out pulling, never had much luck at it, but enjoyed every minute of it
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Cant believe I got out as the pie chuckers came on!!! :D
Haha yes mate was full yer boots bowling and got what it deserved Don't think the smashed greenhouse went down to well tho!
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Just had a gander on your play-cricket profile Ian, you don't like to run much do you?! 35 including 6 4's and a 6, week before 69 including 6 4's and 4 6's! I reckon you've hit more boundaries in your last 2 games than I've hit runs all season! Hahaha
Haha! If you saw the size of me you'd realise why I don't run!
Lost again last week, ex-Gloucestershire player Mark Coombes whacked a ton in no time against us, but we pulled it back and bowled them out for 214. We then batted ourselves into a great position at 0-3 (thats right, 0 runs and 3 wickets), and eventually bowled out for 180 odd.
Means we need to beat Clevedon this weekend to have a chance of winning the league!
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Had a 40 over friendly match yesterday. We batted first and I got 55 getting out stumped with my foot in the air and we got 218 for the first innings. Then with the oppo being 160-0 with around 15 overs to go everyone thought the game was over then the first wicket fell starting a collapse reducing the opposition to 212-9 off 40 overs.
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If I wake up to a text that says that 'today's game is off' then I wouldn't mind as it will mean we're promoted :D
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Cancelled game or 1 point was all we needed to avoid delegation today. Lost toss, got stuck in and were 100 or so for 3 when we were rained off amid thunder and lightning.
A fitting end to the soggiest season in memory!
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We were rained off after 3 overs too, basically promoted. Need 4 more points in the final game. Our 2s however are 100% promoted, good times :)
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We managed to get around 20 overs in today but the weather won. Season over now :(
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Big win for us, kept them to 126-6 but we had them 50-5 so they got a bit lucky there. 12-3-36-3 for me, had a decent go, dropped a sitter of a c+b though! Knocked them off 5 down, 5 6 and 7 put on about 100 between us, I came in at 7 and got my best knock of the season, 21*, finally felt in some sort of nick! Nice to get a win on the board, that's us safe for the season :)
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We were rained off after 3 overs too, basically promoted. Need 4 more points in the final game. Our 2s however are 100% promoted, good times :)
Congrats to all at BS, good times!
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Cheers mate
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we got done, bowled the oppo out for 130, it rained at tea and their skipper got in the umpires ears and the game was abandend despite the sun shining. ggggggrrrrrrrr
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Had a really good start to the season scoring a lot more runs than I usually do.
However the latter half has just gone down hill. I've had all 7 ducks (that I've had) occur since I scored my first 50 and a load of low run scores.
Very annoying. >:(
Today got 6 before being ran out my fellow batsman. Always annoying getting out when there's not much you could have done apart from running like Usain Bolt over the last 50 metres of his races. ;)
Game was abandoned after our innings, useless weather...
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Another horrendous day out on a saturday for us! Got done over by a hugely impressive spell of bowling from a left arm opener... skittled for 73 and lost by 8 wickets. Most of them were a bunch of (no swearing please) as well!
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Only had 15 overs left today before it had to be abandoned :(
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Match abandoned for us after 10 overs.........We've lost more games than we've played this season. :(
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Match abandoned for us after 10 overs.........We've lost more games than we've played this season. :(
We lost every game :(
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We lost every game :(
I know how you feel mate :(, however we've won the league this year and the NEPL prem 40 overs and a few cups :D
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1st ball duck today, caught at long-on when it looked like it was going over, fielder timed his jump perfectly to lob the ball up with his fingertips and catch after 3 juggling attempts inches off the boundry and ground...super unhappy with myself but amazing catch...
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1st ball duck today, caught at long-on when it looked like it was going over, fielder timed his jump perfectly to lob the ball up with his fingertips and catch after 3 juggling attempts inches off the boundry and ground...super unhappy with myself but amazing catch...
1st ball going for a six :-[
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Relegated bowled out for 63 oppo got them for 2 wkts.
Played in not nice atmosphere.
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Scored 56 not out after having scores of 12*,5,0, 7, 0,3. Used the Woodstock I recently received. After a complete loss of confidence, It was a huge relief to able to score some runs.
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Well between the rain and looking after mum and dad on the UK trip I managed to play 4 league games taking 7 wickets for 52 off about 23 overs. Only had a bat 3 times and scored 6*, 12* and 3... So not the best season ever but my team finished 6th in county 1.. Still got one more T20 on wednesday so hope to pull it together 1 last time
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1st ball going for a six :-[
If its in the slot i go for it, majority of my innings open with a 4 or a 6, not proud of it but just the way i play.... my problem is losing concentration a little later and playing across...
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My typical season ;)
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My typical season. :D. Toenails , Are you a bowler ?
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My typical season. :D. Toenails , Are you a bowler ?
Opener batter however I do bowl a bit of off spin - so an all rounder mate :D good collection there mate
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today my club won the Keith Crump Cup, which is for our division and the two divisons above us in the OCA league.
We scored 234-7 from 45 overs. I got 31 not out
then we bowled Risinghurst out for 94.
Good start as we only formed the team in October.
Happy days
also, as it was my last game of the season, I finished with an average of 44.75, thats 40 more than most years
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Played in a Presidents game today. Batted 10 and got 20* though I didn't really get on with it at the end but it was difficult to time against spinners and we had batted 57 overs in getting 249-9. We lost by 1 wicket in 40 overs, I took 3-20. Was a little hacked off I only got 6 overs when some of the home favourites bowled rubbish and got more overs, but the end result was fair enough. Did clean up an MCC Young Cricketer, though he did have a 100 against his name at the time.
One of my mates used my H4L and was very impressed in scoring 79* with it.
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just broke 400 Saturday runs for season 19 games in shocking :(
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Won our top of the table clash on Saturday, means we are now 2 points clear going into the last game... Going to be close! I managed 22 runs before getting a thick inside edge and the keeper took a superb catch down the leg side!
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Played in a Presidents game today. Batted 10 and got 20* though I didn't really get on with it at the end but it was difficult to time against spinners and we had batted 57 overs in getting 249-9. We lost by 1 wicket in 40 overs, I took 3-20. Was a little hacked off I only got 6 overs when some of the home favourites bowled rubbish and got more overs, but the end result was fair enough. Did clean up an MCC Young Cricketer, though he did have a 100 against his name at the time.
One of my mates used my H4L and was very impressed in scoring 79* with it.
Don't worry you'll be batting higher than that on Saturday!!
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Third ball duck yesterday!! We won though, no thanks to my dreadful effort with the stick....
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What would have been my last game of the season was rained off. Was expected but that meant I had to go shopping with the missus :(
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how can ANYONE have a last game before the end of August? Thats just plain silly...we play well into October!
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Only due to exams in my case, But I think we only have about 2 weeks left anyway. We Started the season earlier and lost a lot of games due to rain which haven't been rescheduled. A bad year in terms of the summer that never was.
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Yesterday was the first day of my Saturday club's annual 2-day "Supertest" against our main rivals, King's Road, who also happen to be a club that IJC sponsor!
They posted 199 all out, and we are currently 78-6 in response, after being 72-2 at one stage! I am due to bat at number 10.
Bowled 15 straight overs in their innings, and managed to take 5-45, which was very pleasing - first five wicket haul of the season! :)
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It's over!
Truly abysmal year :(
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You think yours was bad johnny, 175 runs at 12 this year, 100 of which came in the first 5 games :( Technique needs a serious overhaul over the winter.
On the upside, 1sts, 2nds and 3rds won yesterday, meaning safety, promotion and promotion.
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I'm currently in talks with Bolton Baseball club - going to start training with them over the next few weeks. If I'm any good and if I enjoy it then might not even play cricket next year
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League season over relegated.
I topped batting averages with 310 runs @ 24. Should have been better lots of starts did not go on enough too many 15-20s.
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We stopped up on the last day of the season, absolutely amazing!! We was 56 points from saftey at the half way stage and stopped up by 19 points. Finished the league season with 338runs @ 42.25 from 11 innings 3 not outs. Really happy with that. Also got 8 wickets and going at under 4 an over
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Was promoted as champions yesterday posting 201-8 then bowling the oppo out for 118. I got 23 off 24 before top edging a pull. Today we played Stroud and again batted first this time getting 263-9 from 40. I got 40 from 29 before being caught behind. Their ex-Glos players smashed 70 in no time which set the ball rolling for people to come in a hit the ball, they won with 5 overs and 4 wickets left
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my first year playing county cricket,got a 72 against notts which was the highlight a few too many 20's for them but was ok, happy with my performances need to push onto more big scores though.
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8th Duck of the year for me yesterday :(
Most runs I've ever scored and wickets for that matter as well
Might have one game next Sunday so hoping I don't get a 9th Duck
http://corsham.play-cricket.com/profile/statistics.asp?id=11559353
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A huge failure, played about 5 games, scored 1 run, took less than 10 wickets #(noswearingplease)season
http://woolpit.play-cricket.com/profile/statistics.asp?id=221546
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8 ducks, 2012 is a season for you to forget.
Played our last League match today, needed to win to clinch the championship, which we did in style. Batted first on a damp green wicket, managed to score 208-8, then bowled the opposition out for 22. So in two consecutive Sundays we won the league and the Cup. Not bad for our first season.
Ended the season with an average of 44.25 thanks to a few not outs at the end.
Cant wait to next year!!!
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8 ducks, 2012 is a season for you to forget.
First half was great but ever since I scored my first 50 it's just gone down hill like mad :(
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Averaged 22 this year in a horribly rain affected season. Seriously considering dropping down to captain our 2nds to let the young keeper there step up :(
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Got more than 850 in roughly 30 innings but need to chase up scorebooks to get all results on Play-Cricket
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Decent season in some ways for me, couple of friendlies missing from play cricket which take me to just over 300 runs from 13 innings. Definitely the most runs I've ever scored in a season but no 50's and finished yesterday with a duck which was my first of the season - usually i'd have quite a few.
http://telecomsportscc.play-cricket.com/profile/statistics.asp?id=11499603
Given the standard i play at i should have scored a few more runs but with the poor tracks in my league its not bad. Really disappointed with my bowling though as i've consistently bowled two bad balls an over which is poor. I was a decent bowler when i was younger but in the 3 years since i started playing again i've been poor, lost what little pace I had and completely lost my line, length and seam movement. Something to work on for next year as ideally in the team i play in i'd like to bat at number 6 and open bowl or be 1st change. Plan is to get a lot fitter for next year and pay for a few coaching sessions pre season.
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I am still in shock we lost yesterday... a number 9 scoring a ton... nuts.
bankofengland.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11455754
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Played our last League match today, needed to win to clinch the championship, which we did in style. Batted first on a damp green wicket, managed to score 208-8, then bowled the opposition out for 22. So in two consecutive Sundays we won the league and the Cup. Not bad for our first season.
Will done Jason! Congrats on the league as well!
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thanks Pete
We only won the league thanks to you and the lads at watlington
jason
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You had to be up there in the first place fella!
We were lucky that the top side had a slightly weaker side than usual, and we seemed to have a very strong side that day so was an easy win.
Same happened in the 1st XI on Saturday - we took a resonably decent side and played team who just earned promotion to OCA league 1.
But we bowled them for 155 and knocked them off in 35th over and 3 wickets down. 8)
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only played Sunday for my old farts friendly team. Batted first on a used crumbling deck and were shot out for 97. The oppo discovered a patch half way down the deck where the ball would shoot and cut in. The oppo used it pretty well, mainly because they couldn't hit a length consistently. 4 of us batsman were done in identical fashion bowled :-( Oppo didn't have too many problems knocking the runs off as we tried to bowl properly lol. Though our lack of pace and use of an old ball didn't help!. I picked up 2-16 including a guy bowled to a delivery pitching leg hitting off, pretty rare I get that much turn but the track was very worn!.
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On paper, we put out our strongest team we've had all year. Unfortunately that bit of paper wasn't the score book and we managed to lose a must win game - bowled out for 116 and they knocked them off for 4.
The result means we are 2nd from bottom and in a relegation spot. Fortunately we do have a chance of escaping as the 2 teams above us both play each other - so we need to make sure we win.
As skipper I resisted the opportunity to put 1st teamers in this week, but I think this week I might have to bow to pressure.
It's fair to say my first season as skipper hasn't been what I thought it would be. On a personal note I'm winning bowling & batting averages, but don't feel I deserve them in the position the team is in.
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Got ran out on 16 by my vice captain, he skys a ball to mid on for a regulation catch, mid on drops it, he shouts yes at me (why I ran I had no idea) Mid on had both ends available but chose to go for me running to the strikers end....run out on 16. Totally gutting way to end a shambolic season.....
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not counting my chickens but I may have another 3 sundays and a game on the 29th September to look forward too. Could do with a few Saturday friendlies if anybody is short in the warwickshire/oxfordshire area. With all the rain it feels like the season has barely started.
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Well what a weekend.
Saturday- Clinched the WEPL Bristol and Somerset Division by beating Bristol West Indies by about 150 runs. I only scored 4 before getting my middle stump knocked back 3rd ball!
Sunday- After a very heavy night celebrating on Saturday, we had the South West Regional finals day of 'Last Man Stands' cricket, we won all 3 games beating teams from Wiltshire, Bristol and another team in Somerset, and became South West champions! Now playing in the finals day in Liverpool in 3 weeks time!
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8 ducks, 2012 is a season for you to forget.
Played our last League match today, needed to win to clinch the championship, which we did in style. Batted first on a damp green wicket, managed to score 208-8, then bowled the opposition out for 22. So in two consecutive Sundays we won the league and the Cup. Not bad for our first season.
Ended the season with an average of 44.25 thanks to a few not outs at the end.
Cant wait to next year!!!
Well done Jason! You've definitely got to come down for a net again sometime so some of that skill can rub off on me! My season is over, top score of 88. Average of about 28. Not good at all! We did get promoted though......came second in the league but it happened to be in the year of restructuring so a top half finish would have sufficed....takes the shine off it a bit really!
Like a lot of others I hardly feel as if the season ever really got started...I barely played 2 games in a row all summer... :(
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Sunday- After a very heavy night celebrating on Saturday, we had the South West Regional finals day of 'Last Man Stands' cricket, we won all 3 games beating teams from Wiltshire, Bristol and another team in Somerset, and became South West champions! Now playing in the finals day in Liverpool in 3 weeks time!
Where in Liverpool mate?
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Neston Cricket Club I believe, heard of it?
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Yeah Neston is a great ground with a fantastic new pavilion, cost 800k I was told. It's not in Liverpool but on the Wirral which is the other side of the River Mersey, beautiful place looking over towards Wales.
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thats cheshire isn't it?
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Technically in Cheshire but on the Wirral.
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So we finished this season knowing that relegation was confirmed for both out first and second teams. However, we had our second team final on the sunday to look forward to to try and end a bad season well.
The first team played against the only team below us on Saturday and with people dropping out due to our relegation we arrived with 9 players, quickly increasing to 10 due to a couple of phone calls. After being asked to open the batting (first time all season) I decided just to bat for as long as possible. I got 95 off 130 balls, and although it is my highest score it was certainly not anywhere near my best innings. Still it was nice to get 95, although obviously disapointing to miss out on a maiden ton. We set a relatively competitive 196 to win off 45 overs. They fell pretty short only managing 130.
So on the Sunday we had out second team cup final, and I was one of the first teamers lucky enough to be selected. To get to the cup final we had: a 1st round bye, a second round rain affected win, a quarter final coin toss win, a semi final win against 7 players so to say we had been fortunate is an understatement.
We were however up against one of the best teams in the past few years who have been rising rapidly through the leagues, Godolphin CC (owned and bankrolled by Sheik Mohammed). To put it in perspective they have the Lords groundsmen relay their pitch every year and tend to it 2 or 3 times a season.
However, the game was played at one of the Cambridge college grounds, however the used pitch was a long way short of what we expected of it and the outfield was relatively slow. We batted first and compiled 145 all out in the last over, and we batted horribly slowly, our opener making 46 in 36 overs. I got a quickfire 21 before trying to up the pace and getting bowled. When we came out to bowl they got off to a flying start, with 41 on the board before 3 wickets left them 44-3 off 6. A small partnership followed but another flurry of wickets left them 105-6 off 27. However, their captain batted with fantastic control to see them through. However, at 115-6 their number 8 snicked off but didnt walk and the umpire didnt hear the snick. This left a rather sour taste in our mouths but then again it may not have made a difference.
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not doing two bad! with two games left!!!
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batted 21 times 510 runs average of 28 (No Swearing Please) really but best in team at the moment going into the back two games!
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I'd of put money (5p maybe) on you heading up the duck league as well.
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not doing two bad! with two games left!!!
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batted 21 times 510 runs average of 28 (No Swearing Please) really but best in team at the moment going into the back two games!
I would be top of the quacking league.... still got over 330runs though this season
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Frampton away Saturday and Filton Wayfarers Sunday. Any guys on here playing in one of those two?
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Frampton away Saturday and Filton Wayfarers Sunday. Any guys on here playing in one of those two?
I'm in the Saturday one, as long as I'm picked anyway!
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Good good, just washed my whites haha
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Good good, just washed my whites haha
Thanks for the reminder, mine are still in my bag from last week!
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Diving at point has taken its toll on my trousers this year, some serious washing has been done and still mud stains haha
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Hopefully playing against Long Ditton on Sunday this weekend...
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Frampton away Saturday and Filton Wayfarers Sunday. Any guys on here playing in one of those two?
I am playing Sunday Colesy - looking forward to playing in the sunshine!!!
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Hopefully playing against Long Ditton on Sunday this weekend...
I do like long ditton's ground... Took my first ever wicket there as a kid!
Where do you play tim?
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I have 4 more games until i'm off to uni. Currently on 797 runs in 24 innings @34.86. So need 203 in 4 to make it 1000 again. Happy with my Saturday returns on the whole this year, my first full season opening in the 1's, spent last year working my way from 6 up to 2.
Also 28.2 overs 5 maidens 8-89 average 11.13 economy 3.14 and still can't get a proper spell on a saturday haha
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In a word "poor" spent a lot of time working on my batting at the beginning of the season, then found little time at the crease but ended up few n.o's.
Catching in 2011 was with no drops and I started this season with 3 drops in on game. Followed by a drop in the next. Confidence went low. Joined another team to gain more playing time and got a few more runs and fielding improved. Bowled one over against my will and took a wicket and conseeding 2 runs. Followed up the next few games with some good catches and started to get back into it, until study started, stopping me playing.
So all in all naff, need to work on fitness and batting over the winter. Work on my bowling action, to maybe take a few overs next year and well in general make a massive improvement for 2013.
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I am playing Sunday Colesy - looking forward to playing in the sunshine!!!
Yeah would make a change haha, will you be bringing the GM? (Don't care about the new, shiny H4L ;))
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Yeah would make a change haha, will you be bringing the GM? (Don't care about the new, shiny H4L ;))
I will be bringing it mate, but will probably be using the H4L as I love it!!! Used it 3 times and scored a couple of 20's and a 50 - will be awesome once its knocked in properly!!!
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Played against Frampton yesterday. Lost. Played against Filton Wayfarers today. Battered.
Top innings from Byo today too.
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Opened the batting yesterday. Scored 51 off 41 balls chasing 185. Set up the win quite nicely, but like an idiot for some reason I was watching the gnat things buzzing around in front of me instead of the ball and got bowled off the pads. Passed 1000 runs for my club as well, and I'm only 6 short of 500 for the season.
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Played against Filton Wayfarers today. Battered.
Top innings from Byo today too.
Cheers mate - nice to finish the season with an unbeaten ton, good knock yourself. You forgot my run out too!!! :D
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Would've been better if 65 of my runs weren't off the edge haha. Yeah how often do you hit the stumps at the keepers end from deep cover? ;)
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Would've been better if 65 of my runs weren't off the edge haha. Yeah how often do you hit the stumps at the keepers end from deep cover? ;)
No pictures in the scorebook mate - just says 75!!! Not often I can reach the stumps from deep cover let alone hit them!!! :D
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I was in if Billy had to take it then the bails. Considered the dive but was too abrasive, didn't want to hurt my little arms ;)
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Needed 33 yesterday to get 500 saturday league runs for the season... 8 ball duck :/ We posted a below par 201 with number 2(me),3 and 4 all getting ducks ??? Then proceeded to bowl our local rivals out for 100 to finish 2nd and guarantee promotion.
They stuck us in on a decent track as "the only player that could hurt us isnt playing today lads" as we overheard from their changing room! Que lots of sledging about that player from us as victory slowly occured.
Today chased down 262 for the loss of 5, I got 104 off 56 balls with 22 4's, a 6, then one 2 and 8 singles haha. Also bowled the overs at the death and took 1-23 with a couple of bad wides and a drop off my bowling, took a good slip catch today too so pretty happy :)
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Well done mate, promotion and ton!
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Cheers Colesy, i'm so hit and miss atm. It's been either less than 10 or a 50/100 for the last month - mainly less than 10!
And the promotion meant a very heavy night down the club, finished early so were drinking when we came off the pitch at 6 30 ended up on someones sofa at 4ish :D
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Had 146 off 96 balls yesterday to bring this seasons tally to 1006, more importantly though, we had an unbeaten season!
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Currently my senior side has played 16 games, won 3, drew 4 and lost 9, so not a great season. Good news is that we're in the bottom league so we can't get relegated! :D
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Had 146 off 96 balls yesterday to bring this seasons tally to 1006, more importantly though, we had an unbeaten season!
Great effort mate! Bit on the slow side though ;)
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Today's was a must win match, where the loser would be relegated. Knocked the oppo out for 182 of 30 overs, taking 2 for about 15 myself with one guy bowled off a slow bouncer, with a fair few played and missed and edges through slips coming off my bowling.
We proceeded to reach 40-5 before some fine batting from two of our batsmen saw us home in 33 overs with wickets to spare. Serves the opposition right though. Currently bottom of the league, they'd shoved half their Saturday firsts in the team...
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..........they'd shoved half their Saturday firsts in the team...
Good on you for knocking them over....as you said, serves them right!
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Jesus Christ, Oi Vey, Hare Krishna & Buddha!!! didn't anyone have a crap season?
I got the yips and can't bowl spin anymore.
For all my batting practice, still can't control my base instincts & continue to tw*t it straight to fielders.
I am now so fat in the field, that when I pull off a glorious diving stop, it's down to my lower centre of gravity, rather than any skill.
...but I'll still be back next year, and I'll catch some of you young, skillfull, good-looking, athletic buggers up!!!
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Oh no one mentioned a bowling season ;) Yeah that didn't happen so leg spin doesn't exist anymore at my club.
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Jesus Christ, Oi Vey, Hare Krishna & Buddha!!! didn't anyone have a crap season?
.....I got the yips and can't bowl spin anymore.
For all my batting practice, still can't control my base instincts & continue to tw*t it straight to fielders.........
That sounds like my season! My left arm spin has stopped turning and my brain has stopped allowing me any kind of patience at all when batting.....rubbish season...glad it's over! May never play again. Going to buy a massive motorcycle and start doing trackdays in the Summer instead!
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Not quite the last game of the season I was expecting yesterday...got dragged off the field against Colesy's team after 2 overs to be told my father in law had had a heart attack. Drove up to Newcastle to see him straight away and by this evening he had discharged himself from hospital, tough as old boots those Geordies. Kind of put my terrible cricket season into perspective
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Glad he's ok mate, didn't want to say anything before you did.
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Yea appreciate that mate, pretty stressful weekend but main thing is he is ok for now. Sorry I had to dash off, you were going pretty well at the time too and I was hoping to have a proper look at the morrants but cricket and kit very much took a back seat for once this weekend
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Yeah understandable. Was difficult going from out arti to a grass wicket, kinda went downhill after you left, dropped twice then slashed a wide one to the keeper
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Ah right, I guess the full tosses and half trackers in the first over didn't really get affected by the grass track! Maybe try and get a friendly sorted for next year
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Finally got some runs... 171 of them... although it was for the third team!!
http://uxbridgecricketclub.hitscricket.com/scorecard/fixtureID_232637/SAT-3rd-XI--v-Shepherds-Bush-08-Sep-2012.aspx
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Oh no one mentioned a bowling season ;) Yeah that didn't happen so leg spin doesn't exist anymore at my club.
Not had a bad season (so far) with the ball.
153.3-33-318-53 - Bowling Avg 6.00, ER - 2.07 , SR - 17.37
First season (in 28) I've taken 50 wickets. No coincidence it was the first season bowling my brand of left arm spin/darts. Still plenty to work on during the winter, more revs on the ball, a little more consistency to the lefties and a touch more variation in pace/flight.
Not batted much - 241 runs @ 26.78
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Jesus Christ, Oi Vey, Hare Krishna & Buddha!!! didn't anyone have a crap season?
I got the yips and can't bowl spin anymore.
For all my batting practice, still can't control my base instincts & continue to tw*t it straight to fielders.
I am now so fat in the field, that when I pull off a glorious diving stop, it's down to my lower centre of gravity, rather than any skill.
...but I'll still be back next year, and I'll catch some of you young, skillfull, good-looking, athletic buggers up!!!
It's alright mate I had a shocker of a season with the bat, having top scored back in May with 6, it took be until this weekend to get into double figures with 10, so much for my average of 20 by the end of the season! On the plus side my fielding wasn't bad and I didn't drop a catch, plus I was nominated somewhat bizzarly as best play for the Sunday 2's at our awards night on Saturday! Still it doesn't help when I am going for the role of 5th team Captain next season that my batting was poor!
Fattus I'll drop you a PM as I've spoken to one of our coaches about some 1-2-1 coaching during the winter.
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Finished off the season with a nice 104 not out - amazing the difference a hard wicket makes!!! Very happy with the new H4L bat - used it 4 times and scored 58, 26, 28* and 104* :D
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well strugeled to get 100 last week and botteled it on 96 and couldnt manage to get 50 this week and got out on 47 lol
only one game left to go!
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The seconds are calling for me simmy, 1 with the bat and didnt even get a ball :(
Pretty poor season, although i did start well.
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No cricket this weekend or next! But next Monday I'll be fufilling a boyhood dream of mine by playing at The County Ground Taunton playing against Somerset Chairmans XI, buzzing!
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No cricket this weekend or next! But next Monday I'll be fufilling a boyhood dream of mine by playing at The County Ground Taunton playing against Somerset Chairmans XI, buzzing!
Make the most of it mate, my one and only appearance at Glos ground I got a second ball duck and it's haunted me ever since!
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No cricket this weekend or next! But next Monday I'll be fufilling a boyhood dream of mine by playing at The County Ground Taunton playing against Somerset Chairmans XI, buzzing!
Fingers crossed for the weather mate - I was due to play in a 6 a side comp there are few years ago and it smashed it down with rain as we arrived and got called off!!! Gutted to say the least as each team were allocated a pro and would have been a top day
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It's alright mate I had a shocker of a season with the bat, having top scored back in May with 6, it took be until this weekend to get into double figures with 10, so much for my average of 20 by the end of the season! On the plus side my fielding wasn't bad and I didn't drop a catch, plus I was nominated somewhat bizzarly as best play for the Sunday 2's at our awards night on Saturday! Still it doesn't help when I am going for the role of 5th team Captain next season that my batting was poor!
Fattus I'll drop you a PM as I've spoken to one of our coaches about some 1-2-1 coaching during the winter.
where do you play?
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Fingers crossed for the weather mate - I was due to play in a 6 a side comp there are few years ago and it smashed it down with rain as we arrived and got called off!!! Gutted to say the least as each team were allocated a pro and would have been a top day
Thanks mate! Reckon it will probably hammer down knowing our luck! Ahh not good, very similar thing with us a few years ago too at our club, they ended up doing it indoors..
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Won our 2 last game of the season to leave us just top with 1 to play, can still be champions or finish 5th!
Division 1, not sure I've ever been in a closer league!
http://cricketforbundet.no/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=44&Itemid=141 (http://cricketforbundet.no/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=44&Itemid=141)
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Make the most of it mate, my one and only appearance at Glos ground I got a second ball duck and it's haunted me ever since!
Thanks a lot mate! Oh dear not ideal, but a great experience still no doubt!
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Thanks a lot mate! Oh dear not ideal, but a great experience still no doubt!
Yea it was awesome and was back in my allrounder days so picked up a couple of wickets at least. Fingers crossed for the weather for you :)
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where do you play?
Woking & Horsell in Surrey.
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A couple pictures of me batting yesterday in a friendly,
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Won yesterday. Our league season finished last week so its only friendlys for the rest of the season. My Sunday team played against my saturdays Sunday team. We got 204-1 myself and Nick Saunders put on 138 in 18overs. Nick Batted through the innings for 86 and I git 52 not out having earlier missed a beamer and got hit on the head. I normally always wear a lid but decided against it...typical!!
They finished off about 80-90 short , so nice to have 1 over on a couple of them
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A couple pictures of me batting yesterday in a friendly,
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Cor!! That non-striker is ready for a quick single isn't he?
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I'm not sure Stevie Wonder umpiring in the second pic would fill me with confidence!
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^^^ lolz
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My League debut was thwarted by my wedding anniversary
My next 2 games where thwarted by rain
My last 2 games [this Friday & Saturday] were thwarted by another anniversary
On the plus side we managed to cut an outfield and square and play in my local pubs paddock :D So all in all a great season
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saw something a bit special in our game at the weekend, one of our lads hit 94 off 30 balls, including 6 sixes in an over, in fact his last 12 balls were 6-6-6-6-6-1-6-6-6-6-6-6. this bloke who got hit for the 6 sixes was no mug either and was playing Derbyshire ECB Prem only last year. although i couldnt understand why he continued to bowl length balls!
d. steers knock - http://clownetown.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11448988
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Not a lot of running in that knock!
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Massive game tomorrow, called up to the 2s from the 4s to make my league debut and try an help them win and avoid relegation.
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First win of the season for our Sunday 2nd XI today. Played Bath Exiles who won the toss and batted first on a tiny ground with ridiculously long outfield. They got 226-4 (I think) from their 40, after they said 150 has been par. I bowled a mix of leg-spin and seam up for 7-0-29-1.
We then batted and lost a few early wickets, I came in after 17 overs at number 6 needing 150ish to win. I got 92* off around 60-70 balls I guess including 7 sixes, 4 in one over which I was going for 6 x 6s (6.6.6.6.1.0). Kid down the other end who's 16 batted really well, we put on 70+ to win the game and he finished 28*.
One more game tomorrow, equally small ground (double ton?)
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First win of the season for our Sunday 2nd XI today. Played Bath Exiles who won the toss and batted first on a tiny ground with ridiculously long outfield. They got 226-4 (I think) from their 40, after they said 150 has been par. I bowled a mix of leg-spin and seam up for 7-0-29-1.
We then batted and lost a few early wickets, I came in after 17 overs at number 6 needing 150ish to win. I got 92* off around 60-70 balls I guess including 7 sixes, 4 in one over which I was going for 6 x 6s (6.6.6.6.1.0). Kid down the other end who's 16 batted really well, we put on 70+ to win the game and he finished 28*.
One more game tomorrow, equally small ground (double ton?)
it's a saturday?
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Don't have a Saturday team other than league games so will go down as Sunday 2nd XI. Confusing I know.
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Winning draw today, we got 196 off 44 I got my second ton of the season getting 114.
The oppo got to around 176 for 8.
I bowled 10 overs 2 for 43.
With getting a job this week and runs I think I'd better put some money on the lottery as luck seems to be going my way
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114, top score to have ;) Well done mate
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Haha! It is indeed! Chance less as well surprisingly. I think you'll beat you 114 tomorrow on that small ground mate ;)
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I'll give it a go, been in good form this year, on 1012 runs so far so looking to get 1212 ;)
Not get complacent though, I'll be happy with 30*
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Embarrassing game yesterday, keep relying on top 3 on a Sundays and same on a Saturday it appears now the leagues over. Sometimes works but when it doesn't it's embarrassing (62ao earlier in year, chased down 260 last week) We got 14 between us (0 for me) and 88ao. Opportunity won by 6 wickets, 40 more runs and they would have been in trouble aswell.
So I go into last game needing 99 to get 1000 runs 3 years in a row, no pressure!
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season finished today, finished off by a finals day and winning both semi and final,happy with my season.
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Played for my over 40s team against Ashfield Moseley today lost by a far distance. They got 219-6 off 40 overs, I was tidy enough with 6 overs for 21 but not very threatening. We collapsed to 45-4 and I ground out 34 to get us up to 135-6 at the end. Out having a slog a few overs from the end.
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I got smashed for 28 yesterday of one over lol. Not the highlight of my year tbh
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season over for me this year, weekend was badly affected by the weatherm it felt like i couldnt build up any rhythm and i started the season with no batting practice at all after i hurt my neck.
never felt like i really got going and the pressure of maintaining such a good record from the previous season often played on my mind and i think i didnt bat as freely this year.
8 innings 630 runs average of 104 compared to average of 147 last year and 1010 runs in 10 innings. It was all going so well stats wise until the last two games where i only got 27 runs in total after 4 consecutive centuries. I was ran out by a team mate and then played on an unprepared wicket on the last game which was dangerous so the stats could have been mcuh better.
Similar story for my midweek team, excellent end of season stats but it just didnt feel very fluent for me this year but our team got promoted so it was fantastic for the club .... our first ever bit of glory.
Next season ....
no indoor cricket, complete rest until mid january from cricket then hit the indoor nets hard with some technique based batting for me and the club batsmen (for the first time in about 15 seasons going to nets in the winter) so im ready to go for an enjoyable season batting wise, with better technique and hopefully some silver ware.
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Season finisher today. I hate losing as it is but today was very frustrating. We managed to get 147 all out batting first on a decent enough deck, I got 70 before throwing my wicket away to long on, next highest score apart from extras was 17. The total never really looked enough especially when Jim (OMF) came in and got 65-70?. The frustrating part was our fielding which was well, not good shall we say.
Plus point of today was my keeping which is usually average at best and I got my first catch followed by second behind the stumps haha, only done it a handful of times before but improving every time I do it.
Look forward to next season now and aim to beat my 1082 runs from this year.
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Opened the bowling today and after asking the skipper to have long on and long off on the 3/4 mark (I always do that - it encourages driving and edges off the seam), discovered that the guy on the offside couldn't field so two balls that would normally have been stopped went for 4. >:( Had 8 overs with no wickets, despite a plum LBW in the first over - no bounce, batsman not coming forward, opposition umpire >:( And then conceded 2x 4 overthrows off my bowling thanks to people shying at the stumps crazily >:( Oh and had one batsman dropped as well. We let them score 177 which was 25 above par, and we dropped five catches, then failed to make the runs in 40 overs, falling 18 short. Very frustrating. Let's hope we can play next weekend and it isn't washed out.
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We lost yesterday. On paper it was our last game of the season but trying to organise a Couple more. Oppo got 153 and we lost by 12 runs. I got 49 before snicking off!!!
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Lost yesterday in a timed game against my old club. In other news, I need a new lid after mine dropped onto the changing room floor at a rapid rate of knots...
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Top day at the County Ground yesterday, turned up with a mixed ability team and nobody knew what anyone could do. Ended up batting at 10! Came in with 4 overs to go and hit Hampshire WK Nic Pothas for a few boundaries and scored 20 before he cleaned me up! We scored 157
Then opened the bowling against Pothas, beat the edge once but he was pretty good and timed the ball well. Game went right down to the wire and the Somerset Chairmans XI were all out for 153.
Great day out, was awesome playing at the County Ground, changing rooms and showers were mint. And the curry in the long room was top notch!
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had a good season apart from rain. had a great week at taunton with cheshire scored 86 v yorkshire 44 v leinster 32 v gloustershire
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I had a good season as well, finished top run scorer and top wicket taker for my T20 club, also this season I was hitting consistently hitting decent scores. Kept wicket for the first time as well and really enjoyed it, could be something I venture into.
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First win of the season for our Sunday 2nd XI today. Played Bath Exiles who won the toss and batted first on a tiny ground with ridiculously long outfield. They got 226-4 (I think) from their 40, after they said 150 has been par. I bowled a mix of leg-spin and seam up for 7-0-29-1.
We then batted and lost a few early wickets, I came in after 17 overs at number 6 needing 150ish to win. I got 92* off around 60-70 balls I guess including 7 sixes, 4 in one over which I was going for 6 x 6s (6.6.6.6.1.0). Kid down the other end who's 16 batted really well, we put on 70+ to win the game and he finished 28*.
One more game tomorrow, equally small ground (double ton?)
We played them the day after and hit 357 for 3 and they hit 249 for 7 and they put the result up as a draw!!! as we did not bowl them all out.lol
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Haha a bit weird. Who do you play for mate?
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royal oak maybe? - http://exiles.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11592037
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We played them the day after and hit 357 for 3 and they hit 249 for 7 and they put the result up as a draw!!! as we did not bowl them all out.lol
If you were playing a timed game it would be a draw
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royal oak maybe? - [url]http://exiles.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11592037[/url]
I Love the fact that the guy on 195 got run out! Some words must have been had after that.
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I did have a chortle at that!
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Well we bowled first in our game against them because I wanted to get a double ton, quite disappointed haha
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No,not a timed game sraight 40 overs,i'm glad i didnt run him out,but to be fair he was batting and it was his call,and was cool with it,direct hit from the boundry.i was next in at no.6
one of their players on being given out lbw threw a wobbly packed his kit and just drove off!!
Not one of the prettiest grounds i have been too,the changing rooms remind me of old 60's toilet block.
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Direct hit from the boundry
You know about those Colesy!!! ;)
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No,not a timed game sraight 40 overs,i'm glad i didnt run him out,but to be fair he was batting and it was his call,and was cool with it,direct hit from the boundry.i was next in at no.6
one of their players on being given out lbw threw a wobbly packed his kit and just drove off!!
Not one of the prettiest grounds i have been too,the changing rooms remind me of old 60's toilet block.
Did you have ankle high grass and mole hills too?
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You know about those Colesy!!! ;)
Yeah yeah alright mate, these boundaries are about 40 yards so not hard to get ran out from there ;)
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Did you have ankle high grass and mole hills too?
Not only that,there was potholes underneath i actualy went
Over chasing down the ball!!
They never marked or rolled the wicket til 5mins before we was due to start
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They were rolling the wicket when we turned up. There was also the large concrete patch at long on from the top end
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Our 1st team won the league and won the play off to the EAPL, east anglian premier league which is the top league around us :) so will be a good season next season for me to follow them
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(No Swearing Please) end to the season, on 32 going well and feeling good at the crease I was bowled by a ball from a crappy leg-spinner that must of rolled along the ground, it pitched around halfway down the pitch and my eyes lit up so I went to smash it over mid-wicket but it stayed very low and definitely bounced at least twice. It wasn't given no ball so I had to walk.
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Bouncing twice isn't a no ball!
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Bouncing twice isn't a no ball!
erm, it is....
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Bouncing twice isn't a no ball!
But rolling along the ground is and the ball that bowled me must have been very close to rolling along the ground.
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Finished the season with 49 yesterday think it was more as sure score missed some of my fours but nice way to end. Averaged 24 better than last couple of seasons. Pleased as disrupted season as got going then didnt play for 3 weeks then started coming together again. Keeping coming along
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Club dinner last night. Picked-up batting award - 570 runs at a avg of 52. Could have got more runs but had 7 games called-off and missed 2-3 games.
Also picked-up award for "Clubman of the Year". This was a big surprise and even more cherished than the batting award.
Indoor nets from October end.
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last proper game of cricket today and no surprise it was washed out without a ball being bowled.
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Yesterday was a washout. We have one game left on sunday... Long range forecast predicts a washout!
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Our last match, yesterday, was washed out, funnily enough...
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Story of the season really...
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Our last game yesterday, Friendly match a charity cricket team i help run. We played through the rain and got soaked. However won on the last bowl with out no 9 smashing 44 from around 20 balls. Good way to finish the season. 3 Stumping and 21 Runs so half decent game. Roll on next season.
First indoor game of the season tonight
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Got a ton last game of the season, and was supposed to have a game yesteday but it poored down :(!
So yet again I've come into form in the last three games, 66*, 65 and 114.
Ended up with an average of 30 after feeling like I had a terrible season
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Got a ton last game of the season, and was supposed to have a game yesteday but it poored down :(!
So yet again I've come into form in the last three games, 66*, 65 and 114.
Ended up with an average of 30 after feeling like I had a terrible season
Looks like a change to lighter bats following injury has worked wonders for you if I am not mistaken .
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Your not mistaken at all mate :)!
The 2'9 hattori I've got was the best buy I've ever had. Absolute gun.
I think it was the heavy bats doing a mischief to my elbow
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Had our presentation evening last night, managed to get six awards haha. A little surprised to say the least, just have to wait for the AGM in November now.
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stilll ticking along, got another weekend to go yet, which is nice. Good win yesterday, helped a lot by the opposing skipper who chose to bat on an old fashioned Coney Wet One (never, ever a good idea!)
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Got uni trials tomorrow- hoping I get passed the first round then anything can happen after that
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District / county trials on wednesday:D been training like a madman :) ive just moved to the uk and only played half a season of club cricket here
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Which county mate and where have you moved from?
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County and district trials same day? Like 3 years ago the county used to invite you to net in autumn winter with trials a couple of months pre season.