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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: KarlPennington on June 22, 2015, 03:06:47 PM
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It's my teams first LMS match tonight. We have a bit of a weakened team and the opposition will be a lot stronger.
So my question is, how can we win? What things can we do to level the difference in ability?
We are playing away so I can't sabotage the dressing room or turn off the hot water. Any other suggestions: ball tampering; sledging; befriending the umpire etc are welcome.
Thanks
#GoVipers
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It's not bloody rugby.
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It's my teams first LMS match tonight. We have a bit of a weakened team and the opposition will be a lot stronger.
So my question is, how can we win? What things can we do to level the difference in ability?
Is this some sort of joke?
If not, you need to look at what reasons you have for playing the game. That and accept your difference in ability and take the fact that you may get well beaten like a man.
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Tell them your situation and try to allow yourselves to bat first. That way the death will be quicker and you won't be running around the field collecting 4 bowls 3 times an over.
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Or alternatively use it as valuable practice for future games....
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What has this forum come to...
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It's not a joke, it's Last Man Stands where proper cricket etiquette need not apply.
No seriously, lets say it was football I might say to my team play defensively, get everyone behind the ball, double up on their playmaker, keep it to nill all and we we take any luck thats comes our way on corners and set pieces...
Are there any 'tactical' cricket ways to lessen the gulf in class??
Last year we batted first against them and got 120, then I put everybody on the boundary and they still won within 18 overs (decent effort) but last year our team was much stronger...
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What on Earth have I just read?
People like you are ruining cricket!
Honestly, this and what I heard happened to a player in another team on Saturday (Knocked out by an opposition), is really starting to ask me whether or not cricket is "A gentlemans game" anymore
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Run your nuts off. Make ones into two's, two's into threes. You'll be amazed at how many more runs you get this way, you'll be blowing out of your (No Swearing Please) but you'll have more runs on the board. Not many people (myself included) turn up for a hit and giggle on a Wednesday night looking to do sprinted shuttle runs.
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If they're obviously much better and there is no chance of winning, I would just play normally and see it as a learning curve.
Or... Ball straight/full at their legs with slowish bowlers and stack the onside ?
Bat conservatively and hopefully have wickets in the shed and just go crazy for the last 5 overs ? With a bit of luck you could get a few hitting the fence including snicks/edges to third man area.
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Get in a few ringers mate last man stands !!!!!!
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I thought this thread a joke at first but reading your second comment on the thread I conclude that you sir, are an idiot.
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Love all this!! Our ECB Prem is certainly not a gentlemans league, but its tough aggressive cricket, the way it should be!
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tad harsh
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It's my teams first LMS match tonight. We have a bit of a weakened team and the opposition will be a lot stronger.
So my question is, how can we win? What things can we do to level the difference in ability?
We are playing away so I can't sabotage the dressing room or turn off the hot water. Any other suggestions: ball tampering; sledging; befriending the umpire etc are welcome.
Thanks
#GoVipers
Dont worry pal we're also missing players !
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Love all this!! Our ECB Prem is certainly not a gentlemans league, but its tough aggressive cricket, the way it should be!
max this is who we're playing tonight pal
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Throw jelly babies on Length
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Is it! Hahaha!! Give us (No Swearing Please), we don't mind, we get it every weekend!
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Dont worry pal we're also missing players !
Hey mate, this was completely tongue in cheek by the way. I'm just kiling time in work looking forward to later. You know us so you know we play the game in the right spirit, especially LMS.
Anyway prepare for some leg stump bowling and some quick running when we are at the crease ;)
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Is it! Hahaha!! Give us (No Swearing Please), we don't mind, we get it every weekend!
im putting 2 and 2 together.. plus it said #vipers ! sankey valley or something isnt it ? and its good banter our club is run on people abusing each other ahah
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That's us Sankey Valley Vipers - We have no Parko this year and the Aussie has gone back to Moolallaba. We've replaced them with a yorkshireman who would make Geoffrey Boycott seem in a hurry and an angry Scot who's aggressive short picthed bowling should be served up with a side salad!!!!
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That's us Sankey Valley Vipers - We have no Parko this year and the Aussie has gone back to Moolallaba. We've replaced them with a yorkshireman who would make Geoffrey Boycott seem in a hurry and an angry Scot who's aggressive short picthed bowling should be served up with a side salad!!!!
how come liams not playing? is adam still playing? guessing you two are related like ! and hahaha sounds like a good laugh weve got prescots aussie playing for us tonight and one lad with a broken thumb .. lms is a good crack though
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Adam is still playing mate and Ste Southy, the rest of us are hopefuls. Liam's working night shift now...
I can't believe you've got the Aussie from Prescot he ripped through us on Saturday. 75 all out chasing 130, I think he got 5!!!!!
Thanks for the heads up we'll look out for who's got a bandaged thumb in the field and target him :)
See you in about an hour mate
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some of this stuff should be one of those ECB survey forms :)
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So @KarlPennington @coverpoint_pro @acko109 who won? Any dirty tactics played?
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If there is no chance of winning then
A)concede . No point going out there to get slaughtered
B) go out there and just have a laugh, totally ignore the oppos and literally just have a net
C) bowl the worst pies ever if you bowl first or try and hit every ball for 6 if you bat and it'll be over in no time
D) play normally and get slaughtered and listen to the oppos take the mick out of you because unfortunately people like to take the mick rather than just realise they are better
Personally, if I seriously think it's a pointless game I'd just not play. I'm not spending money and time to have the Micky taken out of me/us by people who should realise they are better and win but without letting you know about it.
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So @KarlPennington @coverpoint_pro @acko109 who won? Any dirty tactics played?
They won - no dirty tactics, except one of our lads trying to catch the ball with his forehead... It was actually quite gentlemanly, I let them bat first so it wasn't a wasted journey for either side and they let our lad back in after he was run out because he didn't know the 'double' play rule.
They were 165 for 2 off 20 overs. We finished on 105(ish) for 5, which wasn't bad considering we lost three men in the first over... (I think they went easy on us though;)
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They won - no dirty tactics, except one of our lads trying to catch the ball with his forehead... It was actually quite gentlemanly, I let them bat first so it wasn't a wasted journey for either side and they let our lad back in after he was run out because he didn't know the 'double' play rule.
They were 165 for 2 off 20 overs. We finished on 105(ish) for 5, which wasn't bad considering we lost three men in the first over... (I think they went easy on us though;)
good laugh tonight pal ! how that fella stayed standing i have no idea ! look forward too seeing you again mate !