Topic: Pet hates (Read 26147 times)

alexhilly1492 · « **Reply #45 on:** November 15, 2017, 07:04:57 PM »

Boring keepers who just won�t engage in polite conversation!

mattcoll12491 · « **Reply #46 on:** November 15, 2017, 07:48:20 PM »

Quote from: Kieron_BT on November 15, 2017, 11:40:07 AM

Wicket Keepers not wearing long sleeves

Bowlers not wearing short sleeves

Tailendfielder · « **Reply #47 on:** November 15, 2017, 07:53:50 PM »

People who say everything is village

People who moan about whats happening but will not do the job themselves.

This thing about keepers needing long sleeve tops.

WalkingWicket37 · « **Reply #48 on:** November 15, 2017, 08:04:10 PM »

Quote from: mattcoll12491 on November 15, 2017, 07:48:20 PM

Bowlers not wearing short sleeves

What about spinners?
It's much easier to disguise a 15.67 degree bend in your arm when you've got a long sleeve shirt on...

edge · « **Reply #49 on:** November 15, 2017, 08:29:03 PM »

100% guilty on the long guard (although 3 foot is a bit much), but there's plenty of perfectly good reasons for doing it!

jblowe · « **Reply #50 on:** November 15, 2017, 09:57:53 PM »

Quote from: edge on November 15, 2017, 08:29:03 PM

100% guilty on the long guard (although 3 foot is a bit much), but there's plenty of perfectly good reasons for doing it!

No there is not!!!! take your guard so you know where off stump is and then bat. unless your willing to fill the hole after the game stop doing it. They are a total bu*ger to repair.

One good reason for taking a small mark as a guard, is that you can use the fact you can't find it to hold the bowler up by asking for the umpire to give you middle again, bowlers hate it.

jblowe · « **Reply #51 on:** November 15, 2017, 09:58:41 PM »

Quote from: DorsetDan on November 15, 2017, 08:51:36 PM

Angry people in cricket

That is me know!!

ppccopener · « **Reply #52 on:** November 15, 2017, 10:08:04 PM »

No, no...you're quite right to tell off a forum member Jason.

Dr edge is frantically trying to find a reason for a 3 foot guard trenching the pitch so it looks like a combine 'arvestor has been over it

And there is no reason at all. A simple scratch on leg or middle with one spike of the boot is perfectly adequate

Our groundsman , now happily retired from putting up with us, often went onto the pitch mid game to give these trench diggers a right telling off. And rightly so

He told me how to make my mark at about 15 years old and I was too scared to change it in adult life.

kenbriooo · « **Reply #53 on:** November 15, 2017, 10:31:08 PM »

Quote from: jblowe on November 15, 2017, 09:57:53 PM

No there is not!!!! take your guard so you know where off stump is and then bat. unless your willing to fill the hole after the game stop doing it. They are a total bu*ger to repair.

One good reason for taking a small mark as a guard, is that you can use the fact you can't find it to hold the bowler up by asking for the umpire to give you middle again, bowlers hate it.

I'm not guilty of doing a large mark but I'm guilty of remarking twice at the end of each over. It's the only superstition I have in cricket. Our groundsman quite often is umpiring when I bat and makes his feelings well known! :S

WalkingWicket37 · « **Reply #54 on:** November 15, 2017, 10:51:15 PM »

I'm quite fidgety at the crease so like to re-mark my guard after hitting a boundary/a play and miss/a crap shot/at the end of the over. What starts as a fairly small mark may grow if I bat for any length of time (not that it happens very often...)

I also have a habbit of running my bat along the popping crease (I allegedly do this after running, hitting a boundary or at the end of an over, but I didn't know I did that until a teammate started taking the piss out of me for it, so God knows what else I do that winds up the groundsman...

InternalTraining · « **Reply #55 on:** November 15, 2017, 10:56:21 PM »

Quote from: ppccopener on November 15, 2017, 10:08:04 PM

Our groundsman , now happily retired from putting up with us, often went onto the pitch mid game to give these trench diggers a right telling off. And rightly so

He told me how to make my mark at about 15 years old and I was too scared to change it in adult life.

Ha! You beat me to it. A "Braveheart" style charge by the groundsman towards the offensive dungpile would be enough to scare rest of the entitled ninnies straight! Some of their shenanigans...sheesh!!

ppccopener · « **Reply #56 on:** November 15, 2017, 11:07:22 PM »

I take it when The forum 'diggers/markers' are remarking their guard at the end of the over/twice/after a boundary/after a fart

They are not actually asking the umpire again for a guard? Surely that would be just crazy...if anyone wants to own up to that go ahead.

And another thing, not sure if it's been mentioned I stumbled upon this thread just now looking for the Chris woakes is rubbish one

Players who take leg guard....and then ask the umpire for middle (!) same batsman two different guards

But why? Am I missing something?

tom line · « **Reply #57 on:** November 15, 2017, 11:14:48 PM »

I do that to bowlers bowling round the wicket @ppccopener
If it's either right arm round or left arm over I take leg even though my usual guard is middle
To all other bowling my back foot is on middle and front foot on somewhere near 2 leg as I'm open when I bat, but for left arm over or right arm round I take leg as well to make sure my front foot is on leg so i make sure I've opened myself up enough for the angle and stop closing myself off, which helps me to not play round straight ones

ppccopener · « **Reply #58 on:** November 15, 2017, 11:19:48 PM »

Ah yes I get that totally Tom what I meant was when a batsman first comes in, pretty sure one of my team mates does it

There's obviously a reason but I've no idea what it is.

I've also seen a guard on the popping crease(fine obviously) then the same guard a foot down the wicket! Don't get that either!

edge · « **Reply #59 on:** November 15, 2017, 11:28:43 PM »

Tsk, tar me with all the brushes why don't you

I like a decent length of neat one spike guard for several reasons - getting a nice neat line sorted when I arrive at the crease settles the nerves nicely (though that goes straight out the window if I'm in lower down and the pitch is scraped to hell already), and I like it to be a decent length partly because alignment is important so I want to know where both feet are, and because I move in and out of the crease a lot to mess with bowlers' lengths, and it does tend to spoil the surprise if you have to remark your guard when you move out the crease!

On a related note, using running spikes to bat in last season was a revelation in my guard marking, so easy to get a nice line with a smaller spike.

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