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[ProCricketer1982]

Exactly, the challenges of this great sport!

It's amateur f'ing cricket get a grip.

Club nets are always pointless and bouncers from bowlers who simply can't bounce someone other than a kid outdoors are one reason why. Hence why personally I don't waste my time with club nets even though I'm yet to find anyone who can rush me with the short ball outside. (I can do pretty sharp indoors vs machine ), and yet people who know they'd go still do it. What are you training?? To get hit for runs ?? Bowl as you would outside and bat as you would outside.. batters who suddenly decide they are Gayle or warmer and tonk everything knowing full well they'd get out doing it are just as bad. If a batter is doing thst, feel free to bump him Sam he's being a dick.

Bowling short at someone you know isn't competent is a sure fire way to find a bat around your head.. some of us have to work so can't afford to be injured by some idiot who suddenly thinks he's in the ashes or playing pro cricket

[edge]

The bloody pad doesn't go low enough! Right between the top hat and thigh pad, every time! I'm off to Google super long inner thigh pads and hoping I don't get any unexpected search hits...

Stretton Fox? Or a couple of these under compression shorts https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5709913/il_fullxfull.272636360.jpg

[Calzehbhoy]

Strettons will do the job @DorsetDan. I got hit 4 times on the inner thigh at the last net I was at, if I'd been wearing my old P2's I'd have been in pain but the Strettons cover a much larger surface area

[GoodLeave]

No not saying bowl at certain speeds  at all and it's nothing to do with can't stand the heat etc more to do with injuring a team mate who doesn't have the same ability as me  also facing bouncers  in an indoor net as little reverance to facing the short stuff iin an outdoor match.

I'm with Senior on this. Flip it around. Would you like your clubs pro/1st XI top bat charging the 3rds spinner each ball and depositing it back over his head.

Does nothing for the batsmen. Bowler can't practice their line/length, destroys their confidence.

Either have 1st/2nd/3rd team nets, or respect each other's abilities.

Nets are for match practice. If you're weak against (Or scared) of the short ball, practice against the machine where you can be 90% certain where the ball will be as it zips past your nose.

[Tailendfielder]

You lot would hate me. Im a keeper but in nets, i bowl seam. I get so fed up of watching an average top 6 batter plant the front foot and smash it. If they are a top 5 bat they should be able to play a short ball. So i vary my length and get edges regularly, which shows people are not using there feet. Noone at the club complains and regularly get thanked for keeping them honest. I then get more than my fair share in return. Wore one two weeks ago off our quickest guy and it was really tough to keep batting after but again i was pleased because i had got forward to early and it reminds you not to do it.

[jblowe]

Either have 1st/2nd/3rd team nets, or respect each other's abilities.

This is how I used to run my former clubs nets, most players were happy with it. The keen youngster who wanted to improve would every now and the ask to face the better bowlers.

I really like this thread, as this is what happened to me on Monday.  I was toying with moving clubs again, and went a long to their nets, which were two lanes in a local school sports hall.  After doing my spell of bowling it was my turn to bat.  As always I stood out of my crease, first few balls were pitched up, which I firmly pushed back at them. After that all the first team bowlers decided that it was more fun to pepper the old man with short quick bowling, half the time the balls pitched before the mat on the stone floor.  I play in the lowest level cricket in the UK, on pitches that don't bounce, and I am never going to face quick bowling, just old men like me bowling gentle away swing.  In all fairness it was easy to avoid, but what good did it do me or them.  If they bowled that short against batsmen in Div 1 or 2, they would be dispatched into the next field.

Just felt like a waste of my time and am I likely to go back to their nets next week? 

[skip1973]

Being Indoor and the fact that most of the nuff bags overstep by up to a metre make short stuff harder to play in the nets, common sense should come into it.

[Seniorplayer]

This is how I used to run my former clubs nets, most players were happy with it. The keen youngster who wanted to improve would every now and the ask to face the better bowlers.

I really like this thread, as this is what happened to me on Monday.  I was toying with moving clubs again, and went a long to their nets, which were two lanes in a local school sports hall.  After doing my spell of bowling it was my turn to bat.  As always I stood out of my crease, first few balls were pitched up, which I firmly pushed back at them. After that all the first team bowlers decided that it was more fun to pepper the old man with short quick bowling, half the time the balls pitched before the mat on the stone floor.  I play in the lowest level cricket in the UK, on pitches that don't bounce, and I am never going to face quick bowling, just old men like me bowling gentle away swing.  In all fairness it was easy to avoid, but what good did it do me or them.  If they bowled that short against batsmen in Div 1 or 2, they would be dispatched into the next field.

Just felt like a waste of my time and am I likely to go back to their nets next week?

Excellent post  also why would you join a club whose players bowl at a prospective new player like that tells you a lot about Them

[Cin88]

I'm with Senior on this. Flip it around. Would you like your clubs pro/1st XI top bat charging the 3rds spinner each ball and depositing it back over his head.

Happens to me (as a 2nd XI part time spinner), I now make a point of attacking each and every one of the top 6/7 from both teams when in nets both indoor and outdoor. Which for me means lots of good-full length balls and lots of random changes of pace. They enjoy it more when i'm actually trying to bowl them out rather than just sticking any old thing down on a length. Makes them actually think about how to play sensible shots rather than just hoofing everything that comes down. I actually have a friendly rivalry with a couple of them.

I hate all the medium pacers bowling short at me indoors though, they're not able to do it outdoors so why bother? Most of the time I end up just sat on my back foot because I know what's coming. I don't mind the genuinely quick doing it as I know they can do it outdoors and to expect it from them in april anyway. It just really annoys me when the others do it just because the mat allows them to.

[OwzatOllie]

When the ball is bouncing 2 feet over my head there is just no point...I enjoy telling the bowlers that.  And you won't get that sort of bounce on our pitches, so why bother?  I agree with the comments saying bat properly, bowl properly.

[ScottParko]

As a batsman I'm forever getting moaned at for blocking and leaving in the nets, but as has been mentioned before you should bat in the nets like you would in a match, and my role in a match is the opener who sticks around and let's people play around me. My session is for me to sort out my judgement at the crease, and I feel like I have benefitted from that. If a bowler wants to bowl short ball after short ball in the nets then let them, they'll learn the hard way in the proper season when they carted about.

[Seniorplayer]

As a batsman I'm forever getting moaned at for blocking and leaving in the nets, but as has been mentioned before you should bat in the nets like you would in a match, and my role in a match is the opener who sticks around and let's people play around me. My session is for me to sort out my judgement at the crease, and I feel like I have benefitted from that. If a bowler wants to bowl short ball after short ball in the nets then let them, they'll learn the hard way in the proper season when they carted about.

That's what i do as well open the batting the stroke makers play around me the problem is as a short left hander can't resist  playing the bleedin
Hook shot.