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[tim2000s]

I suppose my best spell was 3 for 0 of 3. Got taken off after that as it was a friendly...

[junter97]

I suppose my best spell was 3 for 0 of 3. Got taken off after that as it was a friendly...

Funnily enough I've had exactly the same figures as that once

[Ams4287]

Have taken a couple of 7 for's but a couple of spells spring to mind for being unplayable

10.2-6-8-6 (bagged all top 5 with a opening 10 over spell then back to pickup the number 11 - really wished our club would go back to Dukes balls as it was hooping around that day!).

Probably my favourite:-

13-8-15-5

13 over spell opening up seaming the ball both ways at a gentle pace (don't seem to have the knack these days). Guess it sticks in the mind as we were 3rd playing 1st in the league and had struggled to 135 ish for 7 (I finished on 50 odd not out to get to something to bowl at), then worked my way through the top 5 and snaffled the number 6 batsmen at long on. They finished on 120 odd for 8 with a tense finish, seriously hot day and figured out months later I'd damaged the connection to my heel from my Achilles whilst running between the wickets batting (surgery the end of the following season).

Good memories, now strictly medium pace (at best) change bowler (cutters).

[trypewriter]

I suppose my best spell was 3 for 0 of 3. Got taken off after that as it was a friendly...

I've got friends like you mate! 

[SOULMAN1012]

My best spell is 5-41 off 12 at HSBC sports ground which for anyone that knows it is a road and a batters dream picked up both openers and then 5,6 and 7 with my medium pace away swing.

Also got 4 for 2 twice in Sunday games and one of those was all bowled and on a hatrick twice. I tend to keep all the time now but like to turn my arm over on Sundays on an Occassionsl basis.

[joeljonno]

In my younger days, came on to bowl my dibbly dobbly outswingers. My first three overs went wicket maiden, double wicket maiden, wicket maiden as I somehow cleaned up the lower middle order. The next 4 overs went for 10 as the last wicket batted out for as long as they could.

[SOULMAN1012]

Played a T20 tonight and had very little in the way of seam bowling so I was asked to open the bowling finished with best ever figures 4-0-5-28. My second ever 5 for and we bowled them out for 100 chased it down in 12 overs for the loss of just 1 wicket. That's 4 from 4 so should go through to regional finals.

[Giraffe208]

My best spell is 5-41 off 12 at HSBC sports ground which for anyone that knows it is a road and a batters dream

Can confirm this. Remember playing there a few times in my early teens before the 1st XI came knocking ....pretty sure everyone that ever batted at HSBC got runs so fair play!

[Giraffe208]

3 seasons ago took 9-39 on a wet one. Had 1.5 overs left to try and get the 10th but the kid batting applied himself much better than the rest of the team and as the game was rain affected I ran out of overs. I was gutted!

[Banksy]

I retired from bowling when I was 23 due to a shoulder injury but I weren't bad back in the day.

Not my best figures wise but played in a cup match once when our 2nd team (in division 6) played a first team from division 1. They had a Caribbean lad open the batting for them who was averaging 50 by all accounts. I thought, right, he's having it and notched up the pace a little. First over was a maiden with him looking reasonably comfortable, 2nd over I had at him I'd loosened up a bit, maybe a bit too much when he hit me for 4. So I upped my game and bowled 4 unplayable deliveries at him, last ball of the over he gloved to 2nd slip. Really enjoyed that day as I took another 2 wickets of middle order division 1 batters for not many runs.

[horseman]

I once took 5 for 6 from 9 overs in the national knockout. They were 19 - 9 when my spell finished. They clambered to 53 all out. We scraped home by two wickets on a dry but hardly seamer friendly pitch.

Also 25 overs. 4 - 55. Trying to defend 130 to stay up. We lost by a wicket and got relegated. Tried everything that day.

Faced some horrendous stints as well. Cut on the chin the ball after my mate had had his grille embedded in his cheek. Didn't fancy getting forward!

[ammo]

Deadliest recent Spell was 2/3
4 overs, 2 maidens, 2 wickets 2 runs
while opening the bowling, can't believe i only got 4 overs that game.