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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: uknsaunders on July 15, 2013, 02:05:37 PM
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With this fine weather I was wondering what's the hottest conditions everyone has played in. I expect our Aussie members to beat us hands down but I do have an early runner:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/10/newsid_3910000/3910801.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/10/newsid_3910000/3910801.stm)
August 9/10th 2003 were incredibly hot. I was actually playing 2 miles from Heathrow on the Sunday when it reached 38c but there was a breeze which made it just about ok. The Saturday despite in theory being slightly lower had no breeze and it was like a furnace. Played at Royal Ascot 3s and the ground had no shade. One of our lads went home by 4pm with sunstroke and he was just watching as we were batting. We ground the oppo into the dirt as they took 4 hours and 3 drinks breaks to bowl 52 overs. Remember having a big partnership with one guy where we literally walked singles for about an hour, both us and the oppo weren't rushing anywhere!
http://www.tvlcricket.com/2003resultsandfinaltables/0908037b.htm (http://www.tvlcricket.com/2003resultsandfinaltables/0908037b.htm)
I'm sure a few people have played in hotter conditions!
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44deg is the hottest I have played in... Stifling
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44deg is the hottest I have played in... Stifling
whereabouts and how did you cope?
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In Jamaica with the pitchside thermometer registering 44 celsius. I opened the bowling in the middle of the day. Talk about need to hydrate....
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whereabouts and how did you cope?
Here in Oz. extra drinks breaks and during the breaks sitting in my car with the aircon on full
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I've had plenty of games at lower temperatures where the humidity has been horrible and you can't get through more than a half dozen overs. Marlow, being close to the Thames, use to really bad but the ball certainly swung.
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Doesn't help when I am 44 and over weight too lol
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Was in Dubai a couple of years ago, and went for a game with my cousin. it was august and it was like playing in a furnace. its gets as high as 49c, i haven't a clue what the temperature was at the time, all i could see when i looked across the pitch was heat lines rising toward the heavens. A lot of people had heatstroke.
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Was in Dubai a couple of years ago, and went for a game with my cousin. it was august and it was like playing in a furnace. its gets as high as 49c, i haven't a clue what the temperature was at the time, all i could see when i looked across the pitch was heat lines rising toward the heavens. A lot of people had heatstroke.
I second this being myself based in Dubai and played a lot of matches with Mercury touching 45 degree plus -----
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42c in Oz, played one game whilst on holiday for my brother in laws team. Going from English winter to playing a game in that - I'm just sweating again thinking about it!
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44 also in Australia , what a joke on the Ashes last night " it's stifling hot , it's 29 " bah i'm only starting to feel the heat then !
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in Cyprus regular play in 35 to 38 degrees
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With this fine weather I was wondering what's the hottest conditions everyone has played in. I expect our Aussie members to beat us hands down but I do have an early runner:-
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/10/newsid_3910000/3910801.stm[/url] ([url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/10/newsid_3910000/3910801.stm[/url])
August 9/10th 2003 were incredibly hot. I was actually playing 2 miles from Heathrow on the Sunday when it reached 38c but there was a breeze which made it just about ok. The Saturday despite in theory being slightly lower had no breeze and it was like a furnace. Played at Royal Ascot 3s and the ground had no shade. One of our lads went home by 4pm with sunstroke and he was just watching as we were batting. We ground the oppo into the dirt as they took 4 hours and 3 drinks breaks to bowl 52 overs. Remember having a big partnership with one guy where we literally walked singles for about an hour, both us and the oppo weren't rushing anywhere!
[url]http://www.tvlcricket.com/2003resultsandfinaltables/0908037b.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.tvlcricket.com/2003resultsandfinaltables/0908037b.htm[/url])
I'm sure a few people have played in hotter conditions!
I missed out on playing on the 9th as I was getting married! I think I got lucky - our opening bowler managed to tear several intercostals muscles in the process of keeling over after just four overs!
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I live in Gravesned and remember that day, according to play cricket I was playing at Mepham which is about 2 miss from Gravesend. Played in India when I went to a friends wedding about 6 years ago and the humidity was worse than the heat.
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Hottest I played in was about 40ish in Brisbane but I remember that day in 2003! Was playing away at Sevenoaks Vine. Got absolutely steaming and went to bed at about 6. That was good at the time but the game of cricket was just a joke!
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Try living in central qld lads!!! Mid 40's for most of the summer! Love it though had some real hot ones
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Played a game in school cricket where it was 36 degrees in the shade. Was stifling in the middle with all the gear on and being baked.
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Played in Brisbane one year for Wolston Park. It was the hottest day i have ever felt, and it was just after a big down pour so was muggy as sin.
It was the first time I hated batting. I got 50 odd then hit out. I was happy to be back in shed. Humidity plus the heat made it unbearable, all the players were cramping up, flies were everywhere and sweat was in your eyes. I remember the day vividly.
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Humidity is what kills you in Brisbane - It can be 28 degrees which isn't too hot, when the humidity is also at 95%, it just drains you.
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Last sunday....new delhi :p
44 deg celsius and 95% humidity......
Had to leave the field on 82 n.o.
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I played in about 40 degree heat or something!!
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Humidity is what kills you in Brisbane - It can be 28 degrees which isn't too hot, when the humidity is also at 95%, it just drains you.
yeah I think that is what makes for issues when it gts hot in Britain - this recent weather is the first time I can remember where temperatures near 30 have not been accompanied by humidity in the late 80s.
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Cant remember exact figures my on tour in barbados was slightly on the warm side...
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44 degrees in Perth a few years back. I was in the slips and at one end I was standing in a little sand that the groundmans had put down (not sure why!). It was like standing on hot coals so it was a nice to get to the other end.
That was the hottest but the worst was Sri Lanka. Everyone seemed to get ill when the humidity got up.
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Don't know the exact temperature but we had only 7 players on a very hot day last season - so 5 men to fill the gaps - leather chasing aplenty - torture!
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I played in Malta a few years ago and it was pushing 40. The fact I had been drinking for about 14hrs the day before certainly didn't help...
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Probably not the hottest but I have played in Sri Lanka where it was between 30C and 35C most of the time. I have never experienced anything like it though in terms of humidity. I flew out a day later to meet our tour party and played the morning after I arrived. In the first game I bowled 8 overs straight off. By the end of the eight overs, I thought I was going to die ! We had drinks breaks every five overs but ended up running out of water by lunch time.
All games started at 9:30am to try to get some decent cricket in before the midday sun. The intention was to play 50 overs per side but in the end all games were 40.
I got a bit more acclimatised to the heat and humidity for subsequent games. But I must say, hats off to any professional playing out there and performing as they do.
It was a great experience as we played at the SSC a couple of times and up in Kandy, which was less humid and I wouldn't think twice about going to do it again.