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[lewis_faulds]

Do fifties count? 

[WalkingWicket37]

Do fifties count? 

If you scored 2 fifties in the same innings they do mate 

[SOULMAN1012]

No idea what my quickest is but doubt it would less than a run a ball.

Scored 206 last season but took all day (7 hours)in a two day game last season

[lewis_faulds]

If you scored 2 fifties in the same innings they do mate 

Spare a thought for us bowlers who call themselves allrounders  once hit a fifty of 23 balls then my best mate ran me out

[lewis_faulds]

So I was robbed of a ton 

[WalkingWicket37]

Spare a thought for us bowlers who call themselves allrounders  once hit a fifty of 23 balls then my best mate ran me out

I got 42* off 12 balls in a school game (this makes me feel old as it was 7 years ago now), the limited number of overs robbed me of a hundred (and at the time what would have been my first 50)! 

[lewis_faulds]

Thy fifty came on my school first xi debut a couple of years ago. I was the only one sledging guys three years older than me

[WalkingWicket37]

Thy fifty came on my school first xi debut a couple of years ago. I was the only one sledging guys three years older than me

Did you go to a posh school??

We used to have a cricket team, none of this first and second team malarkey! In that team there were 8 of us who played cricket for a club, a couple of people from the football team and anyone in detention who had their PE kit.
We played against teams who turned up in rugby kit and their shared kit bag consisted of 5 odd pads, 7 bats, a jumble of gloves and 2 communal boxes! Those were the days!   

[Number4]

Thy fifty came on my school first xi debut a couple of years ago. I was the only one sledging guys three years older than me

How brave of you... Sledging guys a whole 3 years older then you. Lewis.. My hero (fluttering eyelids)

[WalkingWicket37]

How brave of you... Sledging guys a whole 3 years older then you. Lewis.. My hero (fluttering eyelids)

In a school game too, where there are teachers to step in if things turn nasty!
I wish I was as 'ard as that 

[Dan W]

8 weeks.

[Gingerbusiness]

Did you go to a posh school??

We used to have a cricket team, none of this first and second team malarkey! In that team there were 8 of us who played cricket for a club, a couple of people from the football team and anyone in detention who had their PE kit.
We played against teams who turned up in rugby kit and their shared kit bag consisted of 5 odd pads, 7 bats, a jumble of gloves and 2 communal boxes! Those were the days!   

You forgot the obligatory being called gay for playing cricket (... or any other sport which wasn't Football) and the odd kid that turns up wearing his school shirt and fielding in his school shoes.

I work at a very privileged boys school these days - The kids don't know they are born! Sightscreens, Clubhouse, Umpires, Their own kit, Tours, no daisies on the square... Different world! No-one gets 'Gas-Masked' with the communal box there!!

[Number4]

Ahhhh they were the days gas masked with the communal box.... Mmmm I can still smell the musky aroma

[lewis_faulds]

How brave of you... Sledging guys a whole 3 years older then you. Lewis.. My hero (fluttering eyelids)

It's just how I role  if you are lucky Number4. I'll give you some tips!

Yes Tis a private school. But we have none of these privileges . My school use my clubs dodgy wicket. So whenever I'm captain I bowl and let them face the 2 inch bounce .
Not as bad as my best mates school (whom ran me out). They are each given a coffin with their initials and if your bat isn't made in England you are dropped.

[lewis_faulds]

In a school game too, where there are teachers to step in if things turn nasty!
I wish I was as 'ard as that 

Our rector (head master for you Aussies) began to give me sledging quotes from square leg umpire.
He even said to one of their bowlers. Your bowling is a straight as Elton John