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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #105 on: July 24, 2018, 10:01:24 AM »
Quote from: SLA on July 24, 2018, 09:45:45 AM
I'm amazed how many people are unaware of this. Its so common its basically a cliché. "you know what they say, beware the batsman in beige shorts" is a common phrase uttered around cricket grounds all over the country.

Quote from: SLA on July 24, 2018, 09:41:50 AM
Maybe you just play in games featuring 22 all-the-gear-no-idea types?

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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #106 on: July 24, 2018, 10:11:06 AM »
Quote from: WalkingWicket37 on July 24, 2018, 10:01:24 AM
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We played against Shaun Udal last year. Nice bloke. I won't tell you what he was wearing, you can all guess.

Who here thinks an ex-England cricketer would rock up to a recreational T20 game in full whites like a complete noob?
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #107 on: July 24, 2018, 10:12:08 AM »
Quote from: SLA on July 24, 2018, 09:45:45 AM
I'm amazed how many people are unaware of this. Its so common its basically a cliché. "you know what they say, beware the batsman in beige shorts" is a common phrase uttered around cricket grounds all over the country.
and you almost had me until this post...
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #108 on: July 24, 2018, 10:18:12 AM »
@SLA who do you play for?
We've played against Udal's current club this year, but I believe he may have recently moved.
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #109 on: July 24, 2018, 10:27:02 AM »
Quote from: golders on November 15, 2017, 02:59:04 PM
"As always,I'm going to work my way from the toe,to the base of the (fully embossed) stickers/decals"

Winds me up a tad...!


This is infuriates me
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #110 on: July 24, 2018, 10:30:06 AM »
Quote from: WalkingWicket37 on July 24, 2018, 10:18:12 AM
@SLA who do you play for?
We've played against Udal's current club this year, but I believe he may have recently moved.

A couple of different clubs in Cambridge. I don't think Udal lives round here here, for some reason he made a guest appearance for one of our regular mid-week opponents.
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #111 on: July 24, 2018, 10:30:52 AM »
Quote from: edge on July 24, 2018, 10:12:08 AM
and you almost had me until this post...


You've honestly never heard that phrase? And you're based in the UK?
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #112 on: July 24, 2018, 10:38:18 AM »
Quote from: SLA on July 24, 2018, 10:30:06 AM
A couple of different clubs in Cambridge. I don't think Udal lives round here here, for some reason he made a guest appearance for one of our regular mid-week opponents.

Ah, okay.
I believe he's associated to a club in Basingstoke this year, you're not "just up the road" from me as I was expecting!
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #113 on: July 24, 2018, 10:44:09 AM »
Quote from: SLA on July 24, 2018, 10:30:52 AM
You've honestly never heard that phrase? And you're based in the UK?
Nope, not that or anything close to it! I did actually play a midweek game earlier this season where a chap in the beige shorts and cricket shirt combo scored quite a good 30rtd, but everyone else who got wickets or runs in that game was in full whites. You know, like what people who play cricket wear to play cricket.
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #114 on: July 24, 2018, 10:45:43 AM »
Quote from: WalkingWicket37 on July 24, 2018, 10:38:18 AM
Ah, okay.
I believe he's associated to a club in Basingstoke this year, you're not "just up the road" from me as I was expecting!

Cambridge is a great place to play cricket. We were discussing in the pub last night that we must have the best cricket pitch/population ratio in the entire UK, with 30-40 proper grass pitches within a 5-mile radius of the city centre (we couldn't quite figure out the exact number). Yet you try to book a pitch for a midweek game between May and August - they're all booked up by February every year.
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #115 on: July 24, 2018, 11:00:45 AM »
Quote from: SLA on July 24, 2018, 09:40:12 AM
That's ridiculous. Do they allow coloured kit? Sounds like they're stuck in the 1960s. I've been playing T20 for over 20 years and I don't think I've ever worn whites once.

Nope no coloured kit allowed, I'm captain of our side and I wouldn't demand the oppo play with ten if one player wasn't in whites but it's a league rule that all players must wear a white shirt and only players in full whites can bowl. I suspect the reason is that we play with a red ball rather than a white one.
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #116 on: July 24, 2018, 11:25:47 AM »
Another thread where SLA seems to be playing a completely different sport to the rest of us...

First the idea of not opening with your best bowlers in order to trick the opposition into blocking.

Now apparently the best cricketers don't wear whites because they would look like they're trying too hard.

Can I have some of whatever you're imbibing?
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #117 on: July 24, 2018, 11:29:42 AM »
Quote from: northernboy1987 on July 24, 2018, 11:00:45 AM
Nope no coloured kit allowed, I'm captain of our side and I wouldn't demand the oppo play with ten if one player wasn't in whites but it's a league rule that all players must wear a white shirt and only players in full whites can bowl. I suspect the reason is that we play with a red ball rather than a white one.


We've been using pink balls for midweek cricket for a few years now. Much better visibility.
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #118 on: July 24, 2018, 06:41:43 PM »
If a ball manufacturer can develop a pink ball that behaves months same way as a red one, then they would be the most sensible ball for use in all forms of amateur cricket where visibility can be an issue at a lot of grounds, more so for the fielders than the batsmen
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Re: Pet hates
« Reply #119 on: July 24, 2018, 06:49:12 PM »
Quote from: SD on July 24, 2018, 06:41:43 PM
If a ball manufacturer can develop a pink ball that behaves months same way as a red one, then they would be the most sensible ball for use in all forms of amateur cricket where visibility can be an issue at a lot of grounds, more so for the fielders than the batsmen


That’s the problem it’s very unlikely. Even in test cricket when they use the pink ball it doesn’t do act anything like a red ball once it gets scuffed up
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