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[WalkingWicket37]

This seems a crazy topic to post in September, as I know a lot of you will still be playing proper cricket!

I've had a text from the skipper saying our indoor league starts on 17th September! Is anyone else starting indoors this early?

[Vitas Cricket]

My last outdoor league game is actually a fairly early finish this year, September 16th....

[cricketbadger]

We run a junior indoor comp at work that starts this Monday for 4 weeks. Can't get enough Cricket, they have kids playing football pretty much all through the year so why not cricket

[NT50]

Start training for the uni season pretty much as soon as we get back in a few weeks.

Then in a month or two we start our season at Headingley (think we play over 3 weekends)

Probably won't get a look in as I'm not a great batsman and spinners tend to get battered indoors (and as one of the four people running the uni club this year, I can't show favouritism to myself!)

[roco]

not sure but I think October up here, but I am officially retired after breaking both bones in my right forearm running into a wall.

[FattusCattus]

We don't have any indoor cricket at our club. Shame really, as I quite enjoy it (and it swings indoors too )

[Seniorplayer]

First week in Jan 2018 for us  up  to the  end of March

[Boondougal]

I've had some really great fun times playing indoor cricket over the years but I have noticed a big variation in the appetite for it depending where I happened to be living.

We did do a team a few years ago but it become a big struggle to put a team out... the club is in a different place with more young free and single (well no kids) about that also play midweek games in summer so it might be worth floating the idea again.

[edge]

Not til October here, that does seem early!

Moving clubs @DorsetDan ?

[FattusCattus]

Mid October round 'ere

Silly cricket really but a good chance to get to know people at the new club for me

Have you told them yet that you 'haven't played for a long time?'  -  bandit!!

[WalkingWicket37]

First indoor game tonight and got off to a winning start

We batted first and posted 145 off 12.
My personal contribution was 10 off 4 balls (including a bomb first nut) before being run out with 9 balls of the innings left. As we had wickets in hand we were running regardless so I did my bit for the team!

In reply we restricted the opposition to 70 odd. I went for 13 off my 3 overs and ran someone out. Actually enjoyed a game of indoor cricket for once!

Next game isn't until 22nd October now though

[velvetsky01]

Definitely open to options and keen for something more local as the travelling was getting a bit much

Where do you play Dan? Chippenham? I havent play indoor cricket for years - used to really enjoy it

[velvetsky01]

ah ok where is that held? at the uni?

[spoonbed]

Bristol stuff kicks off early October for us (@The County Ground)
Have begrudgingly put my name down as available if reqd

[NT50]

First indoor games for uni today!

After losing 75% of our players to graduation last year, we weren't really expecting to win any of our 4 games, especially not when we realised we were playing all the games back to back after a team didn't show up.

I only played the last 2 games. We gave them too many in the first game before being beaten by the best uni of the tournament who were incredible. 3rd game got battered again, where their keeper took a head high catch standing up to a rapid bowler, one of the best pieces of cricket i've ever seen. Last game won an absolute thriller that went down to the last ball, where i 'pulled' the last ball for 3 (was a slap of my gloves as i was late on it) to win it.

Overall a better set of results than expected, as being a small uni with a small influx of players after losing 5 out of our best 6 indoor players, 4 heavy losses was on the cards.

Some lads were disappointed not to be selected, but there's only so many times you can tell someone that you don't need to whack the ball as hard as you can to score runs. all of my runs came from pushing and prodding behind square, or from defending it into the side wall (and i'm a number 7/8 in a div 5 team, but i have a brain!)

We also came up with a novel way to wicket-keep to spin. With our keeper taking his gloves off and standing back, he could cover the off-side back wall, giving us an extra fielder to stop it infront of square.