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[stevie_94_]

We all give ours to the team captain, always on a saturday have 1 or 2 who don't have the money, this week it was ridiculous one kid found a tenner in his bag and instead of paying went to william hill when we were batting so come the end of the game had no money

[SempreSami]

There is no selection policy at my club, though I tend to find myself batting at 6 and waiting 35 of 40 overs watching the top order concentrate more on not getting out than getting runs, then someone playing their first game of the season tends to always get the number 3 spot, hit a boundary and then get out.

[iamNumber4]

At our club....shockingly so if you are over 40 and a friend of the skipper you play!
the younger members get picked if they are short but failing that the 1st XI who struggle most years are holding up the 2nd XI as cannot be put in same league

[Manormanic]

At our club....shockingly so if you are over 40 and a friend of the skipper you play!
the younger members get picked if they are short but failing that the 1st XI who struggle most years are holding up the 2nd XI as cannot be put in same league

Wouldn't say we are that bad but there is a certain amount of, erm, age discrimination in our ones.  Average age for one game this year was over 40!  Hopefully things will improve next year as we have three or four under 19s who are now ready to step up permanently.

Biggest issue we have though is our threes - at one stage there were XI who refused to step up.  Which is never fine, especially when they were playing very poor standard cricket and mugging silly scores each week!