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[smilley792]

My season may be non existent.


Meant to be a club friendly on Sunday, but when I asked yesterday if on I got "been busy text going out later"
Still no text.


Oppos ground isn't looking to be fit for week after in cup game. And then I'm on holiday.


All that winter training and then I may miss 4 weeks of cricket. Haha, might as well not bother in 2016.

Bring on 2017 I say!

[ProCricketer1982]

almost 500 runs scored in April  wow!

It's a friendly, everyone wants a bat.. No point skittling a team out for an ego boost. Pre season is about bowlers just having a bowl and batsmen getting time in the middle, win or lose is irrelevant

[Gurujames]

With a high ranking local club folding, an ever improving wicket and facilities attracting more players and recent league and cup success, we may have more players than we need. Although I have had a fair amount of success over the past few seasons I may put myself of out on loan to any struggling Somerset league club.
I'm getting a bit old and need to make way for younger people in the 1sts. The 2nds are in quite a low division and it may be in inappropriate for me to take a space there.
Sunday friendlies are all very well but I always end up batting 8/9 so a bit frustrating for me if I don't play Saturday's.
So. Any local club who wants a batsman on a Saturday let me know.

[TGB1997]

My season goals will be very similar as most seasons, to get at least 30 wickets. I've always tried to set myself this target as a young spinner its realistic but also a challenge. The one thing I'm worried about is our home pitch as well as many opposition teams that I played at last season were not very spin friendly especially at the start of the season. Even though I started in our 3s and 4s last season and played 2s at the end of the season I did play a lot at out many ground in Sunday games and in training so I found that the tracks were very flat and tbh an absolute road not offering much turn but this year I've really worked hard on playing in those sorts of conditions and bowling at our new 1st team player on Saturday was a really awesome challenge as he picked up length very well and had very quick hands.

This winter I've had some really awesome challenges as many of our 1s and 2s batsmen tried to play aggressively against the spinners and it made me have to think much more which I enjoyed as it was pushing to my limits and enabled me to get something different from my sessions.

[Churchy1989]

With a high ranking local club folding, an ever improving wicket and facilities attracting more players and recent league and cup success, we may have more players than we need. Although I have had a fair amount of success over the past few seasons I may put myself of out on loan to any struggling Somerset league club.
I'm getting a bit old and need to make way for younger people in the 1sts. The 2nds are in quite a low division and it may be in inappropriate for me to take a space there.
Sunday friendlies are all very well but I always end up batting 8/9 so a bit frustrating for me if I don't play Saturday's.
So. Any local club who wants a batsman on a Saturday let me know.

Near Sussex, we are always looking for batsmen, we really struggle until mid June with the bat for some reason.

[WalkingWicket37]

Season started today, great start. Game was called off Thursday night 

Hope this isn't a sign of things to come...

[praguetaz]

Decided to give this year a miss after the influx of new players last year, which resulted in only being selected for a few league games. Was gutted to the point of depression with all the hard work, preparation and the way everything turned out.

This year has seen a 2nd team come into existence at our club for the first time with even more new players. Even though some of my old club mates continue to try and encourage me to play with them regularly in the 2nds I can't seem to get over what happened last year. I've missed all pre-season training and the 3 net practices so far. Considering 17-18 players went down last week to our one and only net it doesn't sound like a lot of batting practice for each player. It's a transition year for the club trying to create the feeling of 2 teams and one club but i'm not convinced... yet.

So, have decided to take a step back this year, which is really sad as I've been playing here for 6 or 7 years. Another club is not an option for me.
Unfortunately, our club is still led and heavily influenced by someone I predominantly blame for the way I was treated and how the club feels now i.e. win at all costs etc so it's difficult to rebuild trust. I went along today to see a mixed team of players from our club play a touring Actonian's (formerly Old Actonians) team from Middlesex and even though it was great to see some old team mates and see a bunch of new players in action, the feeling was not there. It was very cold here today which probably didn't help.

Convinced myself this may just be a year off and to go and watch a few of the club matches this year but it might just be it for me and possible retirement.

I guess the coming season for me will be a non event much like last year but will try to follow my old team mates in a few games and see how this pivotal year for the club will turn out.

Regardless guys, I think I'll be putting some bats and kit up for sale as hate seeing quality kit lying around and not being used.

Good luck to you all and your endeavours this coming season and hope the weather in blighty gets warmer and drier soon.

[anony]

This season will be my first for nearly a decade having last played when I was about 14. An interclub friendly on Saturday was good fun, I had a bit of a bowl and a bat, picked up a wicket, a few runs and some nice grass stains diving around the outfield like an idiot.

Hopefully I'll pick up some match experience on Sundays and get a look in with the third team when people start disappearing off on their holidays and team selection gets desperate! I'm mainly looking forward to hopefully steadily improving at something throughout the summer instead of rotting away like I usually do waiting for the hockey season to start.

[TGB1997]

I'm really starting to regret some of my decisions playing this weekend. We did some intense training on Saturday on the outfield when a deflected ball caught me on the jaw area leaving a nice cut too. That didn't bother me too much however in the game on Sunday I decided to slide in the outfield a few times and as a result now both of my knees have deep grass burns which are more annoying than painful but oh well, what we do for the love of cricket

[ProCricketer1982]

Based off the games so far, I'll score some runs but feel dog terrible at the crease...

[OwzatOllie]

I'm looking to just play my own game, for too long I've tried to play in a way unnatural for me, I'm an accumulator, so I need to tell myself this and focus on that when batting...

[Butterfingerz]

COLD!

[Calzehbhoy]

Cold, wet & ultimately a disappointment I imagine!

[ppccopener]

expecting an interesting season, at least the start, 3rds and seconds were basically 'swapped' during the winter so the younger guys (who were thirds) are now making up the seconds.
i'm a lot older and I was one of 3 people on the committee to change things, and I played the last game of the season in the thirds,so that's where I will be from now on.

On last year's statistics anyway I don't deserve a place in any team higher so no complaints.

the facilities will be a big difference, top 2 teams place at home is very good conditions, threes and fours, well...it's park cricket basically, no showers, can't really get a beer anywhere.

on the plus side I've netted alright and back motivated to get runs for the season 

[Slyboogy]

My season looks to be as if it's going to be a struggle this year.

I hadn't played cricket at all except in the backyard until I joined in 2014, and I must say, that was by far my best season bowling and fielding wise. I would get 4-5 yorkers in consecutively and my fielding was excellent, however I rarely got to bowl as I was knew and our team were full of bowlers so got played as a batsman, where I had the joint record for most ducks! Broke my ankle near the end of that season and it's been niggling me since. Put on a bit of weight from then too so not as quick and as agile in the field.

2015 got a few chances to bowl, was a 2nd change bowler, was economical with 1-2 wickets per game. No ducks that season and achieved my highest score and hit a six! Fielding was atrocious catching wise, dropped so many! Still got my dives in at the boundary and close to the wicket.

2016 sees a lot of new guys at my club who are at a better level than myself, getting a game will be hard itself, especially considering how my bowling has deteriorated from what is seen in the nets where I used to be consistent. Batting against pace seems to have dipped but seem to be doing better against spinners? Odd.  Fielding looks to be a bit better. Broke the amateurs bat in the nets which was a shame but felt good at the same time.

I hope it's a good one this year, and looking to get tips from you guys to improve my game!

PS. Much longer post than intended to be.