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[SOULMAN1012]

Got 1 today that actually came off my pad so basically a duck, on the bright side I got to do a decent amount of umpiring as my opening partner and No 3 knocked off the 125 we needed with ease lol

[joeljonno]

Had my first game yesterday and enjoying my first CBF purchase as the bat has a sweet middle. Shame it only got me 11 with a couple of nice 4s in there.

Took a sweet one handed jumping catch at mid on, mainly due to mis-judging the flight and getting into a horrible position.

Things will get better, I hope.

[RoCo Da Pixie]

Played on Saturday, Got a duck with a leading edge to Extra Cover

Bowled 6-1-14-1 so not bad there. We won on the last ball

[rbblack]

Played today, first friendly of the season.
Opposition scored 192-8. I got a nice little catch at mid wicket.

Batted 3 and scored 42 in a 90 run 2nd wicket partnership. Ended a draw with us on 164-4. Not a bad start to the season.

[ajmw89]

Friendly for the first game of our season, with perhaps the oddest and most frustrating wides rules I've ever played with. 40 overs with anything outside leg is tough, but you can live with that.

The tricky bit was the offside. where they seemed to be calling anything more than a foot wide of the off stump as a wide, regardless. Batsman misses the ball on the offside trying to cut it? Wide. Batsman moves across to try and play the ball and misjudges the height so it goes over his bat? Wide. Batsman manages to pull a slightly shorter offside one back to the leg-side for a slog... Runs. It becomes very frustrating, as ball movement off the pitch is instantly penalised.

The result was we beat them, but they scored 85 ao with 42 coming from extras while we managed to knock it off for the loss of 3 wickets.

EDIT: A pleasant ground for South East London as well...

Where's that tim?

[tim2000s]

Where's that tim?

Charlton Park. Changing facilities were non-existent though, and local rules came from the team rather than ground.

[ajmw89]

Looks a nice ground!

[Colesy]

Got caught for 5 on Saturday after being way too early on a shot and spooning it up for wide mid on. Also got 1-50 off 7 so not a good day at the office.

Did get a catch and a run out though although to be fair I should've had about 4 run outs if I could pick the ball up

[Marcussjd9]

Yeah I wasn't too popular with their openers who came back on!

Especially the one you hit for 464646.
I've joined that club for a few games while I'm at Uni. Nearly ended up playing against you then!

[cricketbadger]

anyone else get a first baller???

[RoCo Da Pixie]

anyone else get a first baller???

Not first. Got a 6 ball duck though.

[97notout]

8 ball duck for me, would like to say it was a good ball but I would be lying

[RoCo Da Pixie]

8 ball duck for me, would like to say it was a good ball but I would be lying

Mine was a leg stump half volley that I manage to edge to extra cover.... Think I need to adjust to slow tracks again...

[tim2000s]

I was very lucky - misjudged the speed of the track and hit a slightly back of a length ball straight up in the air. Luckily high enough to complete a run before it came down, and in a gap enough to cause the fielder running in on it to drop it. Heart in mouth moment...

[Abighugeappl]

Had a friendly yesterday, and was probably the worst game I've ever participated in because of an awful attitude.
Chasing 350, don't ask why or how they got that much.
I got 11* so a little confidence booster, but we still lost by about 150 runs.