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[ProWannabe88]

Ding Ding tickets please!!

[Buzz]

Buzz by the sounds of things mate .. you must still play cricket as a gentlemans sport and it cant be very competative if you think a send of is not worthy

or maybe are league is just full of C**ts

Humm... I would suggest Surrey Championship first team cricket is relatively competative - and slips from being hard but fair to being full of gobby wannabeesbutwillneverbees. The best and most successful teams I have played against have always known where the line is.

You say "still play cricket as a gentlemans sport" what are you implying? That cricket is now a yobs sport?

I can't comment on your league, but I suspect your assessment is correct.

[Simmy]

ah your southern that explains it 

[procricket]

i loved the banter when i played against east moseley once and got slated for being a northern monkey  think there surrey championship

[Simmy]

i some times wish i was from other parts of the country just to see what the standard is like in other places..

me and prowannabe are traveling down to kent soon for a few games

[Buzz]

yes, East Moseley are a decent div 1 side.

Simmy enjoy your tour, some of the Kent teams are pretty strong and many of the grounds are wonderful.

[procricket]

stay up north they have hard decks down south and there quick but i found the standard the same as anywere else apart from the pro;s further up north seem to be a little bit better and more people watch club cricket up north

[Buzz]

stay up north they have hard decks down south and there quick but i found the standard the same as anywere else apart from the pro;s further up north seem to be a little bit better and more people watch club cricket up north

Why would you not want to play on a hard and quick pitch?

[alexrickyponting]

We they actually laughing or was it a nervous, embarassed laugh caused by people who don't want to upset the big "fast" bowler who was being a moron?
If you have any sort of talent, there really is no place for a send off and you should have the confidence in yourself and your ability to know and say that.

and from the description he wasn't asking for it.

Ask Micheal Holding or (if you could) Malcolm Marshall if they ever gave anyone a send off.

There has only ever been one truly memorably send off and that was the Fat Bus Conductor one between Merv and Sunny Gavaskar.

you cant forget warnes outburst at cullinan can you lol?
my favorite (cant remember who was involved) was the batsmen fell over playing a shot and late cautting the ball for 4 while on the ground, bowler said "there'll be no return ticket one of these days!"
the two teams played again a few seasons later it think - the bowler got the batsmen out and as he walked off, ran up to him and gave him a single train ticket back to his hometown! and that was when it was a gentlemans sport 

[procricket]

some notherners i have invited down south to play have got used to a green top up north and struggle with them when it rises above waist height at speed it took me a while your get used to things i suppose..

sorry for the genralisation

[ProWannabe88]

who doesnt love a hard quick pitch!
the quicker the better in my opinion!
lots of money and pro's in our area. takes the enjoyment from the game sometimes but its 1 of those things i guess.
its usually the money men that give the worst sledging as well.

think we are going to bexley for a tour match. the place looks nice enough

[procricket]

pro who you play for up north

[Simmy]

well me and prowannabe will be touring with streethouse CC
they got to the village knockout final at lords last year.

some of the decks we play on are like roads! very hard and very green bowlers dream really..

ask prowannabe hes got the bruises to prove it lol

just will be nice to go and play some where diffrent

bexley have 6 teams on a sat! massive club compared to where we come from where there are just 1st and 2nds

[procricket]

what league is that

[Simmy]

Pontefract and District cricket league

we play for a very small club called old sharlston.
No money involved at all infact far from it!

we dont have any. have an old woodern club house a ropey ground and low soft track.

but its a grate set of lads and we are chalanging for the title this year againts teams that wage bills must be up in there thousands a season