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[Bowlers Name Please]

Might get a spare one and put the tube of deep heat that is in my bag to good use! 

[Silver Bullet]

lol a typical free loader excuse.

Lol

[WalkingWicket37]

Thanks for making that clear, you are still better off sanitising it as lice have wings and can easily travel to your box.

It's kept nowhere near any of my other kit, it has its own micro habitat away from anything that'll get used!

[Seniorplayer]

My club had a player who would fail to pay his match fee and tea money and the following week pay one match  fee /tea money rather than two weeks then pay his match fee/tea money  each week for a further two weeks and then miss a week and then pay one match fee etc the next week he did this throughout the season.

[InternalTraining]

^ That's funny. 

It's the usual helmet, bat search. Gloves and box are just not very expensive and people should have their own. It is silly to use somebody else's sweaty gloves or box.

My escape route is that my bats are too heavy or short for you and I use junior size everything else.

[tushar sehgal]

After years of lending out gear I just started saying sorry its for personal use. So folks then started coming over asking for grips, scuff sheets and it was fine early on but then one day when I needed one no one would help as my 30 scuff sheets were gone in one season and not a single one was on my bats!! now if anyone asks I just say its 5 or 10 bucks most turn around and leave and serious one say ok here is the money.

My personal gloves, pads and helmet are absolutely off limits, I will share my bats but only with the ones who will respect them. Just be upfront and say no sorry...worst was one guy asked to borrow my cup, I said sorry its personal and he say its ok I will wear it on the outside, I made a few more excuses and he kept saying its ok...so I finally said no its not ok, not ok with me 

[trypewriter]

Might get a spare one and put the tube of deep heat that is in my bag to good use! 

How well I remember the occasion when a freeloader asked for a tube of germolene/savlon or anything similar, and was given (by mistake) an old tube of deep heat that had all the lettering worn away from rattling about in the guy's kitbag...

[Silver Bullet]

I moved to a heavier bat this season just to avoid this situation.

Last week, one lad borrowed my bat, which is fine. But when he got out, the runner ended up asking for it. By the end of it, my bat ended up being used the whole game.

[leeroy]

It was always sunscreen with me so I ended up buying a 3L tub as a donation to the club hahaha

[PaceKing29]

We have a few free loaders (3)in our team, eat so much tea there hardly seems to be any left for any other players!! when it comes to collecting money to pay for the opposing team's tea which they laid out they never pay up or always have some excuse!!

Problem is we never have a full playing eleven so end up relying on these types!!

[ProCricketer1982]

We luckily only have one cheapskate. Between me and another committee member we don't allow him any special treat,ent he was used too. He kicks up of course but everyone ignores him because of you play, you should pay. This year I've finally got them to agree that if people haven't paid Subs by 1st June then they can be picked for sat league but not for any other game.

[wayward_hayward]

This thread is the exact reason why I don't lend my kit out unless I trust them. My kit is my pride and joy and I'm not lenting people abuse my hard earned purchases. I'm happy to help out if people need bat tape as that's easy to replace.

[smilley792]

The box issues. I can understand if someone asks every week. Buy if someone has genuinely forgot a box would you really kick up a fuss and try to see if he'll go bat without one??

[Seniorplayer]

Don't lend out my bats anymore as one guy borrowed my 275.00  bat at the start of the innings and proceeded to knock the stumps into the hard  ground with the top of the handle which is an excellent way of ruining the  bat handle and the vee of your bat.

[Silver Bullet]

The box issues. I can understand if someone asks every week. Buy if someone has genuinely forgot a box would you really kick up a fuss and try to see if he'll go bat without one??

No. Problem is if the guys wearing my box without permission and I'm in next to bat (next After him). Do I make him take it off ? A wicket could fall with no one padded up... Or do I risk my life and go on uncovered...