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[ianbuchanan]

Ah Jordan Price? I don't know the story with Hamza? Maybe Christian can help us out? Lol

[Byo]

Yep - Jordan Price.  He had a shocker against us but was rapid - believe he has moved on to Corsham, but not 100% sure....

[uknsaunders]

Did a bit of digging around on play cricket and found some crazy scorecards for you all



#1 http://www.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11118351

#2 http://www.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11035980

#3 http://www.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=10957806

#4 http://www.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=10711603

Match 2 - Ollie Hardaker, we played against him in our t20 comp. Rubbish against decent bowling:-

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/headingleycricketclub/j/match-statistics-12714.html?fixture_id=549960&official=0

[Manormanic]

Did a bit of digging around on play cricket and found some crazy scorecards for you all
#3 http://www.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=10957806

Love that match report - classic sooking "if only we'd been given the LBW"...

...One wonders what they expected St Andrews to do - it was their first XI, are they really supposed to turn players down for being too good?

[thecord]

That match report is embarrassing. I wonder if people writing them sometimes forget that people outside of their club will have access to them as well

[Manormanic]

Indeed - I mean, I've written plenty myself and sometimes you have to give a one sided account for team morale - there was a game over at Caversham that springs to mind when their umpire failed to give the plumbest LBW I've ever seen and the lad went on to get a ton.  Fact is, we got an extra 50 for the last wicket after one of the batsmen failed to walk for a thin edge and there was an element of "revenge" involved...

Of course, the all time classic was written by our league secretary, who simply wrote "the spirit of cricket died on Kew Green today" after one of his players was given out handled the ball! 

[thecord]

Haha amazing stuff coming from the league secretary!

[gdb19]

I think there are circumstances where certain players just shouldn't be taking part in games. I played a midweek works league game here in Sheffield and we went for 300 in 20 overs as they had a south African pro playing who got something like 215. He was pretty good but was helped by really short boundaries and us having most of our usual bowlers out.

To me he shouldn't have played as the league rules prohibit pro's but I think because he wasn't a pro for the team we were playing against he was allowed. Just a bit daft really him playing against us, nothing against him as he was a good bloke but doesn't really feel right to me and stopped some of their other players getting a go.

In proper league cricket where pro's are allowed no issue at all, play your best team.

[Manormanic]

Reminds me of playing against Ijaz Ahmed (the Pakistan international) in the Hawke Cup.  Now, the Hawke Cup, for those not raised in the wilds of North Yorkshire, was a 20 over competition before they became fashionable, and was played on a handicap basis so that small village sides could compete with decent club sides.  My club were on +45 for the game in question, and ran up 161 on the back of a couple of late cameos (I got a punchy 8 off three balls!) so went into the field reasonably confident of defending 207 given our bowling attack had three lads who had played Yorkshire schoolboys, one then current first class player for the Combined Services, a West Indian who was far from slow and a wily old spinner.  Fourteen overs and four balls later Ijaz had 171* and it was all over...

[Colesy]

We had a double ton hit against our 1s in 2010, he was dropped on 6 too.

[Liam-SCCC]

My highest score was 78 which was hugely disappointed to get out on considering the pitch, bowlers and match situation.

Highest teams score was 313, of which I got 6 before being caught with a wonder catch in the second over before the the run rest begun

[Manormanic]

Highest was a guest appearance for my mates college in Cambridge - 138* in a total of 339-3.  Club, a meagre 84 last year 

[uknsaunders]

Indeed - I mean, I've written plenty myself and sometimes you have to give a one sided account for team morale - there was a game over at Caversham that springs to mind when their umpire failed to give the plumbest LBW I've ever seen and the lad went on to get a ton.  Fact is, we got an extra 50 for the last wicket after one of the batsmen failed to walk for a thin edge and there was an element of "revenge" involved...

Of course, the all time classic was written by our league secretary, who simply wrote "the spirit of cricket died on Kew Green today" after one of his players was given out handled the ball! 

played at Kew several times, normally doesn't require that much to bowl teams out. Up there in my top 10 worst places to play - people walking across the pitch on the public footpath, no parking due to pubs and churches, horrible deck (we were once 1-4 there), dog poo on the pitch and crowd chirp you, even though they possess no cricketing ability whatever. That said, haven't had any problems with their players, good lads and cricketers.

[Manormanic]

played at Kew several times, normally doesn't require that much to bowl teams out. Up there in my top 10 worst places to play - people walking across the pitch on the public footpath, no parking due to pubs and churches, horrible deck (we were once 1-4 there), dog poo on the pitch and crowd chirp you, even though they possess no cricketing ability whatever. That said, haven't had any problems with their players, good lads and cricketers.

They've improved quite a bit in the last few years as a club - they've got a Saffer called Bruce Friedrichs who gets a thousand league runs a year without fail and a Barbadian called Kidron Thomas who is sharp even if most teasm think he chucks it.  The ground is still a bit average though - my biggest complaint is the abuse from passing cars!

Should state for the record that the match report referred to was not one in which I or my club played by the way!

[uknsaunders]

They've improved quite a bit in the last few years as a club - they've got a Saffer called Bruce Friedrichs who gets a thousand league runs a year without fail and a Barbadian called Kidron Thomas who is sharp even if most teasm think he chucks it.  The ground is still a bit average though - my biggest complaint is the abuse from passing cars!

Should state for the record that the match report referred to was not one in which I or my club played by the way!

My father called him for Chucking in a league game I think (he's an ECB Premier League Standard Umpire) or had words with the captain. They were improving when I last play them in 2006, had an aussie in the 2's who hit the ball very hard straight.