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[Gingerbusiness]

Passed 50 league wickets at the weekend taking my 6th 5WH of the season. (Currently 54)

Also passed 200 league runs in my 6th innings batting at 7 (Strong top order) with a knock of 28* from 29 balls.

Been a great year. Hopefully the final two league games get me to 60 and 250!

[A-Swing-And-A-Miss]

Interesting end to the season. Skipper decided to mix up the order so put me in to open(despite having only gotten a few hours sleep after a night out) and I struggled. First ball inside edged it narrowly missing leg stump. Two more edges through the slips followed as I moved onto 11(all off the edge) before getting out in the 7th over trying to pull a short ball from outside off... We made 215 in the end and I took two early wickets leaving them on 18-3 off 8 overs in reply. Then their big hitting Indian(on his final game for the club) came in and smashed a century and took the game away from us. They eventually chased it down in the 35th over for the loss of 5 wickets and I ended up with 3-50 off 10(That's after my first 3 overs were maidens..) along with a catch.

On a more positive note, our 2nds won and got promoted.

[rbblack]

Today was a friendly match against Matt from H4L's home team of Woodchurch, touring down our way.

From 40 overs Woodchurch reached 243-7. Like most days for us, if a few catches were taken here and there it could've been a lot less.
I opened and in reply we got off to a rocky start with our no.2 falling early, and our no 3 fell for just two runs at about the 50 run mark.
3rd wicket partnership was worth 110+ runs. Sadly (for me) I fell for 82 off 89 in 85 mins - though I think I should have been out 3 times, 2 drops and 1 LBW not given that I thought was out.
Runs needed were decreasing whilst wickets were being lost. We got to 243-8 - needing one run from two overs.. until we lost our last two wickets!

So match tied!
Brilliant close game - all helped along by the Shoreham airshow going on above us.

Thanks for the good spirited game Matt - very nice friendly bunch of lads.

[the little ripper]

I hit my first ever ton yesterday 110* from 114 balls including a few dilshan scoops and reverse sweeps, everything felt good off the bat however as I returned to the changing rooms after the game I noticed a crack on the handle is this anything to be worried about?

[ProCricketer1982]

What would you have done?


You've batted all game and have easily chased down 196 and are in the 32nd over without taking any risks. THe oppo's are not a strong side and have a young opening bowler who quite frankly bowled ok but nothing you couldn't easily just play a proper shot to and score a 4. Anyway, I took him for 17 off one over without hitting it off the carpet and continued in that vain. He was asked if he'd come on for his second spell and the poor lad pretty much refused. Said 'what's the point' 'he'll just smack me' etc etc.. so, after the first two of his return overs (where I'd carefully just picked up a few singles as I felt for him) we  needed 5 to win...

Would you (baring in mind although it's sunday league it's basically just sunday friendly cricket)

a) pick them off and take the not out
b) go for the big 6 by charging down the wicket (with the intention of missing it and getting out)
c) go for the big 6 to 'finish in sytle'

??

I chose b as I'd got my ton, game was won and this way they secured the one point they needed to be safe and the kid got a wicket. Made him feel a whole host better (I did hide the fact I intentionally missed it quite well).. However, my own team knew what I'd done as they knew I'd not give it away without reason so their older guys picked up on it in the bar arfterwards and brought me a beer... I'm sure few would do that themselves but I thought it was a nice thing to do in the end.. Just want to see what else you guys would have done really out of sheer interest

[Nato]

What would you have done?


You've batted all game and have easily chased down 196 and are in the 32nd over without taking any risks. THe oppo's are not a strong side and have a young opening bowler who quite frankly bowled ok but nothing you couldn't easily just play a proper shot to and score a 4. Anyway, I took him for 17 off one over without hitting it off the carpet and continued in that vain. He was asked if he'd come on for his second spell and the poor lad pretty much refused. Said 'what's the point' 'he'll just smack me' etc etc.. so, after the first two of his return overs (where I'd carefully just picked up a few singles as I felt for him) we  needed 5 to win...

Would you (baring in mind although it's sunday league it's basically just sunday friendly cricket)

a) pick them off and take the not out
b) go for the big 6 by charging down the wicket (with the intention of missing it and getting out)
c) go for the big 6 to 'finish in sytle'

??

I chose b as I'd got my ton, game was won and this way they secured the one point they needed to be safe and the kid got a wicket. Made him feel a whole host better (I did hide the fact I intentionally missed it quite well).. However, my own team knew what I'd done as they knew I'd not give it away without reason so their older guys picked up on it in the bar arfterwards and brought me a beer... I'm sure few would do that themselves but I thought it was a nice thing to do in the end.. Just want to see what else you guys would have done really out of sheer interest

Your actions will probably have saved that lad from giving up on the game altogether, or at least considering it. I think most of us would have done a similar thing in that situation.

[Nato]

Not a bad first season for me - 58 runs batting anywhere between 7 and 10, and 6 dismissals for the season behind the stumps. It would have been more if our bowlers had actually found the edge, instead of just beating it consistently. Planning on putting in some hard work through the winter, and aiming to beat this season's totals in division 2 next year.

[thecord]

I chose b as I'd got my ton, game was won and this way they secured the one point they needed to be safe and the kid got a wicket. Made him feel a whole host better (I did hide the fact I intentionally missed it quite well).. However, my own team knew what I'd done as they knew I'd not give it away without reason so their older guys picked up on it in the bar arfterwards and brought me a beer... I'm sure few would do that themselves but I thought it was a nice thing to do in the end.. Just want to see what else you guys would have done really out of sheer interest

Do you dislike the team that ended up getting relegated instead??

[DiscoStu]

Would like to gauge opinion on this: We play in a 10 team division that is reduced to 8 with two early season withdrawals. 1 of the remaining teams is struggling to put a side out (when we played them there were 4 or 5 youngsters) but is plugging along until August when they stop fulfilling fixtures. The quirk is that the only game they have won is against the team in 2nd place. We are in 1st place going into the last week of the season (aware that there were issues with the other team) needing a win to win the division. We put in a good performance and win only to find out today that the bottom club has been kicked out and with the recalculation of points (all points against the withdrawn team becoming void) we finish 2nd.

Would you just shrug your shoulders and say that this sort of thing happens or take action?

PS I'm not sure if finishing 2nd affects promotion or not as there is a possible league restructure for next year.

[lukemannionzimbabwe]

Hoohah my first net is tomorrow !! Now while I have been listening to all of you talk about your games, you are going to be listening to me go on about mine !! Ha !!!!!!! 

[cricketbadger]

Had a terrible season with the bat to be honest, have real high standards for myself and not matched them at all
2 games left, average about 20 with top score of 66*
bowled pretty average, not enough wickets, but I am a keeper by trade
Been awesome in the field even if I say so myself

looking to end the year on a high before I leave to go back to my old club and try and rejuvenate the struggling team on the pitch, will be my first season as a captain next year so really looking forward to it

[tommo256]

Managed to get back to back promotions with our sunday academy side made up of 8 under 15's and 3 adults, 2 of which are 19. Managed to chase down 213 with 7 overs to spare, so a seriously good season for such a young bunch of lads

[19reading87]

I'm currently on 852 runs @ 42.1 - I've got 4 games left to get 1000 for the summer :/

[ajmw89]

209 league runs at a shade over 16 for me.  Comfortably the most I've scored in a league season (Think 109 was the highest before!)  All in all, 255 for the season, 3 runs short of the most I've ever scored for a season.  Still searching for that elusive first 50, but at least I've been consistently (for me) scoring 20s and 30s.  Just need to convert those starts next season...

[TangoWhiskey]

Passed 1000 runs for the season yesterday with 107* off 48 balls.