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[pacman75cricket]

Captains innings that 5*

[Manormanic]

Captains innings that 5*

Considering he had to interrupt it to take regular rollockings over the phone from their chairman in Bolivia, it wasn't bad.

To be fair, it was a used pitch in a dry spell and was ragging square by that stage.  What was funny though was the comment "well, we gave you such a good game last year" as they walked off...

http://hillingdonmanor.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11082585

Most of the bowlers were, erm, kids and the lad who got fivefer didn't even make the first choice attack in our Under 15s that year...

[biffa]

Playing a freindly on a sunday afternoon last year. Captain returned from toss and informed us he had lost and we were fielding. So everyone put on their bowling spikes, wicket keeper got padded up and made our way to the middle. when we got out there met by the opposition team and captain who imformed us "No your batting!"

VILLAGE!!

[Liam-SCCC]

Bowled out for under 50 isn't bad. We played the so called best team in our area, however we bowled them out for 24. Bearing in mind this was in the final of a tournament in the West of Dorset for the Under 18's.

Here's the scorecard if anyone wants to take a look -

http://dorchester.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11352933

Mate, that Weymouth team is weak. Bridport could of out out a better under 18 team last year!

[legger123]

Mate, that Weymouth team is weak. Bridport could of out out a better under 18 team last year!

They were the so called best team out of the lot!

[joeylough]

Got to say that under 50 was just so I didnt have to say 37 and 42 all out. I think I added a couple of runs to that....

A good moment was seeing a left handed slogger on my team playing a pull shot on his first ball and in the same swing og the bat hitting his pads and shouting Sllaag....yep he was caught.

[Pitbull]

The most village moment I have seen was my good friend was bowling rather well with an Umpire who isn't our best friend at times. After many turned down lbw apeals my friend decided to whip off his shirt and throw it at the umpire.

Safe to say the umpire and the leauge were not too impressed with the situation and it was total VILLAGE behaviour.

(But quite funny at the time)

[joeylough]

Not seen a post on this for a while and I'm sure there are more to add.

But had one game this season where a lot of people pulled out leaving a lot of the juniors filling in. This lead to them shouting "(insert county name) standards" between every ball, when throwing it to each other etc.

Also included the shout of "into the tail now lads" after taking the second wicket.

Safe to say we lost that match before we got into the tail

[trypewriter]

Our outfield isn't the truest of surfaces, and it isn't unknown for the ball to suddenly hop over a fielder's shoulder even when he's done everything right and got everything behind it. This happened at the weekend to an opposition fielder, who then threw his cap down, kicked it several times then stamped on it - erm, it was an adult game too, not under 13s!

Another nomination for a village moment came back in the days when I played more regularly. One of the opposition fancied himself as a quick bowler, coming in off a long run before not quite managing medium pace. He had a lot to say for himself too, and loudly berated the fielders for not stopping some very hard hit shots. The show stopper was when his trousers fell down just before his delivery stride.
'Someone give me a belt!' He shouted. His long suffering skipper shouted back: 'Those two b****rs in the middle have been giving you belts ever since you came on - how many do you need?'

[Stewie-Kidd]

Well not really a village moment, more of a village few hours, on sunday where we turned up to the oppositions ground half hour before the supposed start time where they had one team member there and we had to wait for a key to be sent down to get in, an hour rolls past and still no key.

The key finally turns up after all their team had turned up another 20 minutes later, skippers go out for a toss, our skipper comes back saying the home team were really weak and chose to bat because they wanted to watch the boxing later in the day. Fair to say we rolled them over quite easily. A plus point was their naan bread curry wrap teas

[joeylough]

Infact that reminded me of one a couple of weeks ago on the same lines. With the start of Aug we start and hour earlier. Met at the club and then drove about 40mins away to the opposing team. To which they had one player there doing some catch-it practice and the gates locked. We phoned there captain, he forgot sent and emergency text to the team to get there early.

He arrives opens the changing room to which one of our chaps realises he forgot his whites. Meaning his dad (opening bat) has to go and get them.

We lose the toss and get put into bat....now they have to wait for us.



Played a different day and one of our lads had to borrow white of the opposition.

[Dan W]

not village, but very bizarre...Played a team in North London, and the wicket keeper clearly took things v seriously, and well, kept shouting at himself every ball that he didn't catch cleanly, and kept shouting "CAN'T EVEN CATCH THAT YOU RETARD" at himself!

[trypewriter]

Dan, along similar lines - can't remember the guy's name, but there was a bloke in the league I used to play in who was notorious for providing his own running commentary.
...'And he comes in and bowls. - And that's too short and wide from John...' etc.

[Manormanic]

Now I want to do that this afternoon! 

[junter97]

Whilst batting this season, a guy in the slips thought he was brain badonde off facejacker! Funniest game ever, he had the perfect accent and everything, it was incredible.