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[Batbuddy99]

Cheers for all who attended the net today. Benji I'm now counting youbas my bunny, get the GoPro footage of your first few balls up please 

Mark, no worries mate. I took it as a compliment you liked mine so much, but yours is literally it's twin! I'm sure it will serve you very well 

It speaks volumes about the quality of bats on offer that I took a 14 sticks with me that people barely even looked at, because they were too busy stroking Pete & Simon's wood.

Sorry Cam the footage missed the first couple of minutes!

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[ppccopener]

Yes very enjoyable net, big thanks to Cam again for organising.I even got to bowl a bit of trundle.
Huge amount of quality bats around and good to chat to Dan Swaine of Chase who has some forthright views on batmaking and I'm sure doubles up as a member of Kings of Leon.

I suspect,and hope, a certain member does another write up of the afternoon 

[WalkingWicket37]

Sorry Cam the footage missed the first couple of minutes!

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How convenient, I only bowled you twice in the first couple of minutes, so hopefully you got one of them on camera!
Or the ones you fended off your nose to the keeper, they must look good on camera 

[uknsaunders]

Another great day,  thoroughly enjoyed it. Many thanks to Cam for arranging it all and for everyone for rocking up. Good chat in the pub after as well,  only just got back 3.5 hours after when  I told the wife.

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[Batbuddy99]

How convenient, I only bowled you twice in the first couple of minutes, so hopefully you got one of them on camera!
Or the ones you fended off your nose to the keeper, they must look good on camera 

I was expecting you to bowl spin!
I wasn't used to the bat weighing a lot more than what I'm used to
The nets were extremely bouncy

Erm what other excuses can I think of? [emoji12]

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[FattusCattus]

It was a wonderful net today, filled with thrusting young males, striving their best to drop their balls on a tricky length.

@WalkingWicket37 I think you probs have the majority of the photos,can you get any of them up?


I learnt many new things today:

@Northern monkey likes to hit the ball hard, very hard, and gets frustrated if ha cannot do so. He also gets extremely sweaty after a few deliveries, like all Northern Men.

@WalkingWicket37 can flit effortlessly between high pace and fiendish offspin. Both deliveries look exactly the same, except the faster he tries to bowl, the further into his neck his head dissapears. He is the white Gladstone Small

@Hanky Dad - goes a very funny colour after 5 minutes of bowling - thankfully he stays the same colour for the rest of the session.

@Batbuddy99 - the first delivery he bowls to his father will always be the bouncer. Hanky Dad expects this, and politely flogs it over mid-wicket.

@IWTUK - is a new chum, by his own admission he is 'well upholstered' and rocks the strapping and bandages look (a sort of cricketing version of The Mummy). He is apparently a traffic-warden

@uknsaunders - he turned up, but spent more time stroking other peoples wood than bowling. He allegedly possesses 6 different types of carom ball and likes to receive his deliveries hard and fast

@petehosk - has a multi-coloured helmet, although apparently there are tablets for that. He is also now a leg-spinning all rounder (providing the roof is high enough!)

@simonmay5 - showed off all 7 versions of his cut shot when batting, and bowled a quite extraordinary spell of lobs for which the follow through involves him executing a 'gentlemans excuse me' whilst hoisting his right leg directly over the stumps. What a fiend!!

@ppccopener - is a short, but powerful package. With ball he is limited to slow-medium 'deliveries', but with the bat he is all scurry and scamper, using his feet to get to the pitch of the ball, then gliding it through 'wide mid-on'. Bears a more than passing resemblance to Mr Miyagi, due to his flamboyant headband and constant references to 'Daniel-San'.

[simonmay5]

It was a wonderful net today, filled with thrusting young males, striving their best to drop their balls on a tricky length.

@WalkingWicket37 I think you probs have the majority of the photos,can you get any of them up?


I learnt many new things today:

@Northern monkey likes to hit the ball hard, very hard, and gets frustrated if ha cannot do so. He also gets extremely sweaty after a few deliveries, like all Northern Men.

@WalkingWicket37 can flit effortlessly between high pace and fiendish offspin. Both deliveries look exactly the same, except the faster he tries to bowl, the further into his neck his head dissapears. He is the white Gladstone Small

@Hanky Dad - goes a very funny colour after 5 minutes of bowling - thankfully he stays the same colour for the rest of the session.

@Batbuddy99 - the first delivery he bowls to his father will always be the bouncer. Hanky Dad expects this, and politely flogs it over mid-wicket.

@IWTUK - is a new chum, by his own admission he is 'well upholstered' and rocks the strapping and bandages look (a sort of cricketing version of The Mummy). He is apparently a traffic-warden

@uknsaunders - he turned up, but spent more time stroking other peoples wood than bowling. He allegedly possesses 6 different types of carom ball and likes to receive his deliveries hard and fast

@petehosk - has a multi-coloured helmet, although apparently there are tablets for that. He is also now a leg-spinning all rounder (providing the roof is high enough!)

@simonmay5 - showed off all 7 versions of his cut shot when batting, and bowled a quite extraordinary spell of lobs for which the follow through involves him executing a 'gentlemans excuse me' whilst hoisting his right leg directly over the stumps. What a fiend!!

@ppccopener - is a short, but powerful package. With ball he is limited to slow-medium 'deliveries', but with the bat he is all scurry and scamper, using his feet to get to the pitch of the ball, then gliding it through 'wide mid-on'. Bears a more than passing resemblance to Mr Miyagi, due to his flamboyant headband and constant references to 'Daniel-San'.

Bought many wickets on a Sunday friendly lol it far easier to keep than all this bowling thanks again cam for sorting out 

[InternalTraining]

Hmmm...we should do a US version of this thing...

[Chalkie]

I was expecting you to bowl spin!
I wasn't used to the bat weighing a lot more than what I'm used to
The nets were extremely bouncy

Erm what other excuses can I think of? [emoji12]

was CAM wearing his white tights again as that would definitely be distracting 

[Batbuddy99]

was CAM wearing his white tights again as that would definitely be distracting 

Unfortunately not no

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[petehosk]

Last time Cam wore his white tights, he got too much attention from some stray sheep outside after! No doubt put him off this time!!

Thanks for a great day with so much willow stroking, class bowling and proper cricket shots!

[IWTUK]

It was a very enjoyable afternoon with some new acquaintances; all of whom performed well in one skill or another! Thank you to Cam for arranging this, and I look forward to another net where perhaps the bounce isn't quite so challenging!

My back is absolutely killing me already!

[simonmay5]

It was a very enjoyable afternoon with some new acquaintances; all of whom performed well in one skill or another! Thank you to Cam for arranging this, and I look forward to another net where perhaps the bounce isn't quite so challenging!

My back is absolutely killing me already!

It was great to meet you today and hope your back gets better for a few weeks time

[ppccopener]

It was a very enjoyable afternoon with some new acquaintances; all of whom performed well in one skill or another! Thank you to Cam for arranging this, and I look forward to another net where perhaps the bounce isn't quite so challenging!

My back is absolutely killing me already!

Hearing ya there, I can't move and I've got no sympathy from the wife as I was out most of the day 'doing something you love doing'

[simonmay5]

I think we will try the net just by fleet the bounce was a lot better rather than the tennis ball bounce we had to deal with today