The Official 2013 Village Cricket Thread...

The Official 2013 Village Cricket Thread...

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Hammer67

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5,706 posts

183 months

Sunday 19th May 2013
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First League game today. 40 overs a side of low rent slogging played on a field recently vacated by sheep.
Todays game is against a team we don`t like so chirping and sledging will be on the cards ~ indeed as I`m League Captain this year it could start at the coin toss. Last time we played them resulted in 3 of us, me included, picking up a 3 match ban. hehe

Game plan:
1.Win the toss,bat and post something around 200.
2.Bowl them out.
3.Go to Pub.

Match report later. smash H67


johnfm

13,668 posts

249 months

Sunday 19th May 2013
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How on earth do you get banned during a cricket match?

Nothing wrong with a bit of witty sledging, but I found that far too many English club cricketers have started behaving like football hooligans on the cricket field. A bit sad really.

Hammer67

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5,706 posts

183 months

Sunday 19th May 2013
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Bans were nothing to do with sledging. We were due to play them, away in a League game. Lovely sunny morning, they call the game off due to "localised heavy showers". The only game not played that day in 7 divisions of the League. 3 of us go to their ground, bone dry with no track prepared whatsoever. Word around the clubs was they only had 7 players and chose to call the game off due to weather thus gaining themselves 2 points and depriving us of the 6 we would have got if they`d cried off with no team.

We film the evidence and post it on our club website, appeal to the League to overturn the 2 points each scenario and award us the 6. Result ~ decision upheld and the 3 of us banned for 3 matches for "Trespassing and bringing the game into disrepute".

Anyway today:
Us 144 all out.
Them 145-3.
Shambles hehe

Cheib

23,110 posts

174 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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Hammer67 said:
Bans were nothing to do with sledging. We were due to play them, away in a League game. Lovely sunny morning, they call the game off due to "localised heavy showers". The only game not played that day in 7 divisions of the League. 3 of us go to their ground, bone dry with no track prepared whatsoever. Word around the clubs was they only had 7 players and chose to call the game off due to weather thus gaining themselves 2 points and depriving us of the 6 we would have got if they`d cried off with no team.

We film the evidence and post it on our club website, appeal to the League to overturn the 2 points each scenario and award us the 6. Result ~ decision upheld and the 3 of us banned for 3 matches for "Trespassing and bringing the game into disrepute".
Did the other team get any bans for what they did ?!?!?!

Hammer67

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5,706 posts

183 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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Cheib said:
Did the other team get any bans for what they did ?!?!?!
Nope, not a sausage. They still maintain the pitch was unfit. Never mind the fact that when we turned up at the ground at around start time in nigh on perfect conditions there was no track prepared. A right old stitch up which wrecked our season.

Cheib

23,110 posts

174 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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Hammer67 said:
Cheib said:
Did the other team get any bans for what they did ?!?!?!
Nope, not a sausage. They still maintain the pitch was unfit. Never mind the fact that when we turned up at the ground at around start time in nigh on perfect conditions there was no track prepared. A right old stitch up which wrecked our season.
Sounds like they had friends in higher authority!

I am all for playing the game hard but it always has to be fair....that is just totally unacceptable.

OscarIndia

1,126 posts

171 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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I run a team in Nothumberland, been in charge 10 years now!
Sundays game went well, 35 overs we ended on 210 for 1( we retire batsmen on 50), had a bit if fun fielding, everyone bowled which was interesting. They failed to get the 80 needed off the last over surprisingly!

alfa phil

2,077 posts

206 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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our little pub league is midweek starts at 6oclock, there are5teams in the league and play each other once , 20 overs each everyone bowls 2overs we some times struggle to get a umpire so ,we dont have lbw,s and have a great time Dunstable town CC hire us out one of there pitches ,which is to good for us, caterers bring in a curry and we have a pint in bar afterwards, whats not to like, nothing serious , smile

Cheib

23,110 posts

174 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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alfa phil said:
our little pub league is midweek starts at 6oclock, there are5teams in the league and play each other once , 20 overs each everyone bowls 2overs we some times struggle to get a umpire so ,we dont have lbw,s and have a great time Dunstable town CC hire us out one of there pitches ,which is to good for us, caterers bring in a curry and we have a pint in bar afterwards, whats not to like, nothing serious , smile
I used to sometimes play in friendlies for my club.....batting side always provided an umpire. Have to say I never really came across properly biased umpiring and I used to open the bowling!

Decent batsman knowing he can't be out LBW is going to get away with murder?!

alfa phil

2,077 posts

206 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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no decent batsmen here, laugh but i know what you mean, i think if they get to 20 and then they are out,the batsmen can come on at the end if the rest are out and there are any overs left., its suprising how many get run out and caught.

spikeyhead

17,222 posts

196 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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alfa phil said:
our little pub league is midweek starts at 6oclock, there are5teams in the league and play each other once , 20 overs each everyone bowls 2overs we some times struggle to get a umpire so ,we dont have lbw,s and have a great time Dunstable town CC hire us out one of there pitches ,which is to good for us, caterers bring in a curry and we have a pint in bar afterwards, whats not to like, nothing serious , smile
Blimey, I used to play for the Cross Keys in that set up until I moved abroad then oop norf. I may also have played for the Old Farm and possibly the Swan. Hope everyone still enjoys it as much as they did five years back.

alfa phil

2,077 posts

206 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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nice one ,i think we play the farm next week, i play for the globe in Dunstable , r u going to get back for any of the matches. we play the keys 23rd july, small world eh!


Edited by alfa phil on Wednesday 22 May 16:33

5pen

1,874 posts

205 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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Well after 1 rain affected match, 2 cancellations and 1 heavy defeat, my village team recorded their first win of the season on Sunday.

A proper village outfield that hadn't seen a mower for weeks made fielding tricky - so much so that two of the oppo' managed to wear one in the orchestra stalls. They saved some runs, but it wasn't exactly the classic long-barrier.

The match also featured a batsman standing his ground, apparently waiting to be given out, having had his middle-peg pinged back. Perhaps he was hoping the 3rd umpire might be asked to check for a overstepping bowler? He was disappointed.

A victory and some good roads on the way home made for a good day out.

Burrow01

1,802 posts

191 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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Our village has been struggling to get a team out regularly for the local leagues, and so yesterday played the initial game of a series of weekend friendly matches, against Burghley Park, at their almost impossibly picturesque pitch in the grounds of Burghley House with an excellent view over the roof tops of Stamford.

A great day was had by all, the sun shone, Burghley laid on an excellent spread in their pavilion including a barrel of Real Ale, home-made Guinness and chocolate cake and we won smile

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5pen

1,874 posts

205 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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A picturesque setting, a decent tea, beer and sunshine. Village cricket at its finest!

Hammer67

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5,706 posts

183 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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2nd League game, 2nd defeat.

Us 137-9 them 139-6. Probly 40 runs light but with the side we put out didn`t expect much else. Half the team absent on a Stag Weekend. Only had 9 fielders for half their innings and at one point I had all of them on the offside.

One of their bowlers called our umpire a joker when he called him for a wide resulting in the umpire departing the field. I was batting stood at the bowlers end at the time and had to persuade the bowler to go and apologise to the umpire or it would be game over, fortunately he saw sense and the umpire returned.

When the bowler came out to bat, greeted by the odd joker comment permeating from the slips. He pushed his first ball back to the bowler who picked it up and threw it back at the stumps whereupon the Joker swung at it and smashed it over midwicket. We were reasonably sure that was out obstructing the field but surprisingly, given what occurred earlier, the umpire gave him not out.

A lively old game that was. All mates in the end and a good laugh with the oppos over a pint.

5pen

1,874 posts

205 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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Hammer, judging by your location and scores from yesterday I think I can guess who you play for, so you'll be pleased to know that we gave your rivals from up the road a good stuffin' yesterday!

Hammer67

Original Poster:

5,706 posts

183 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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5pen said:
Hammer, judging by your location and scores from yesterday I think I can guess who you play for, so you'll be pleased to know that we gave your rivals from up the road a good stuffin' yesterday!
Yup I`ve worked that out. Nice work old son. Shame we don't play you guys at the moment, always liked your place with the pub in the corner. Tricky getting the minibus through the gate though.

sjc

13,878 posts

269 months

Monday 3rd June 2013
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Its 18 years since I picked up a bat, but yesterday I took great pleasure in watching my 10 year old lad play his first ever club cricket game( an away fixture)after a long season of footy. I started boring senseless on of the ymmy mummys about the fact that in 1991, we lost the league to this very club at this very ground, due to the game being rained off half way through,and us not accumulating enough bonus points that day.
Ten minutes later I stroll into the clubhouse for a slash to find eleven mug shots of gurny grinning faces pinned on the wall, of the 1991 league fking champions!
Not that I hold grudges like...

Edited by sjc on Monday 3rd June 22:53