Start of the Cricket Season :)
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First weekend done and dusted and first match yesterday.
Result - victory on the last ball of a 14yr at 8.05pm in karachi like gloom with the sun having gone below the horizon some 20-15mins previously in a 40over match.
Personal result - out for 12, holing out to long on as I was trying to kick on from a "deceptively slow" pie chucker. And a badly bruised finger, made worse by the ball jamming the wedding ring into the finger, so now I cant get it out and the finger is swelled around it. Bugger. Oh and stiff and sore all over, but what a glorious weekend and weather to play in. In April!
Result - victory on the last ball of a 14yr at 8.05pm in karachi like gloom with the sun having gone below the horizon some 20-15mins previously in a 40over match.
Personal result - out for 12, holing out to long on as I was trying to kick on from a "deceptively slow" pie chucker. And a badly bruised finger, made worse by the ball jamming the wedding ring into the finger, so now I cant get it out and the finger is swelled around it. Bugger. Oh and stiff and sore all over, but what a glorious weekend and weather to play in. In April!
Yeah same here. Easy victory for us yokels ~ surprising as we were all hungover/still s
tfaced from piss up on Sat. Oppos all out 110, we got em for 4 down all over by half 6. One of our guys split the webbing on his hand taking a catch, loads of claret.
Bowled 9 overs of liquorice allsorts but got the top three out, one to a blinding catch at first slip by a stout gentleman diving/falling full length one handed ~ batsman couldn`t believe his eyes. He wasn`t alone.
Shoulders & back now ache like a bd, gonna get Mrs H67 to walk up and down my spine later to spread the pain around a bit.
tfaced from piss up on Sat. Oppos all out 110, we got em for 4 down all over by half 6. One of our guys split the webbing on his hand taking a catch, loads of claret. Bowled 9 overs of liquorice allsorts but got the top three out, one to a blinding catch at first slip by a stout gentleman diving/falling full length one handed ~ batsman couldn`t believe his eyes. He wasn`t alone.
Shoulders & back now ache like a b
d, gonna get Mrs H67 to walk up and down my spine later to spread the pain around a bit. Hammer67 said:
Yeah same here. Easy victory for us yokels ~ surprising as we were all hungover/still stfaced from piss up on Sat. Oppos all out 110, we got em for 4 down all over by half 6. One of our guys split the webbing on his hand taking a catch, loads of claret.
Bowled 9 overs of liquorice allsorts but got the top three out, one to a blinding catch at first slip by a stout gentleman diving/falling full length one handed ~ batsman couldn`t believe his eyes. He wasn`t alone.
Shoulders & back now ache like a bd, gonna get Mrs H67 to walk up and down my spine later to spread the pain around a bit.
Don't you lot have a compulsory attendance at the pub to hydrate before the game ( we do ).tfaced from piss up on Sat. Oppos all out 110, we got em for 4 down all over by half 6. One of our guys split the webbing on his hand taking a catch, loads of claret. Bowled 9 overs of liquorice allsorts but got the top three out, one to a blinding catch at first slip by a stout gentleman diving/falling full length one handed ~ batsman couldn`t believe his eyes. He wasn`t alone.
Shoulders & back now ache like a b
d, gonna get Mrs H67 to walk up and down my spine later to spread the pain around a bit. Be at the pub before 12:00 for a 13:30 start or a compulsory middy skoll ( 10 Floz ) or pay a $2 fine to the team fine tin.
Across the grades we win far more games than we lose and only the firsts are exempt ( because they are knobs ).
It depends...
I've played club cricket that was more akin to a piss-up where occasionally a game of cricket would breakout sometime during the afternoon (generally Sunday friendly games) and like your 1st XI I've also played the sort of stuff where drinking before the game wasn't encouraged (Saturday league stuff). In both cases, not 'socialising' after the game is very much frowned upon.
The season doesn't start for me until next week by which time the weather will no doubt have changed from the pleasant stuff we have now...
I've played club cricket that was more akin to a piss-up where occasionally a game of cricket would breakout sometime during the afternoon (generally Sunday friendly games) and like your 1st XI I've also played the sort of stuff where drinking before the game wasn't encouraged (Saturday league stuff). In both cases, not 'socialising' after the game is very much frowned upon.
The season doesn't start for me until next week by which time the weather will no doubt have changed from the pleasant stuff we have now...
I had my first experience of the 1st XI knobbishness last weekend. Captain of our scratch team for the day was one of the senior 1st XI members and a right arse even in this friendly. Got a txt the other night simply telling me I was selected for the 1st's this coming weekend and to text back acknowledging. No polite asking or letting me know what sort of game, just telling!
Bugger that for a game of soldiers, Im a 2nd XI boy and happily so! Meet in the Dun Cow, Dunchurch before a game, etc.
Bugger that for a game of soldiers, Im a 2nd XI boy and happily so! Meet in the Dun Cow, Dunchurch before a game, etc.
suthol said:
Hammer67 said:
Yeah same here. Easy victory for us yokels ~ surprising as we were all hungover/still stfaced from piss up on Sat. Oppos all out 110, we got em for 4 down all over by half 6. One of our guys split the webbing on his hand taking a catch, loads of claret.
Bowled 9 overs of liquorice allsorts but got the top three out, one to a blinding catch at first slip by a stout gentleman diving/falling full length one handed ~ batsman couldn`t believe his eyes. He wasn`t alone.
Shoulders & back now ache like a bd, gonna get Mrs H67 to walk up and down my spine later to spread the pain around a bit.
Don't you lot have a compulsory attendance at the pub to hydrate before the game ( we do ).tfaced from piss up on Sat. Oppos all out 110, we got em for 4 down all over by half 6. One of our guys split the webbing on his hand taking a catch, loads of claret. Bowled 9 overs of liquorice allsorts but got the top three out, one to a blinding catch at first slip by a stout gentleman diving/falling full length one handed ~ batsman couldn`t believe his eyes. He wasn`t alone.
Shoulders & back now ache like a b
d, gonna get Mrs H67 to walk up and down my spine later to spread the pain around a bit. Be at the pub before 12:00 for a 13:30 start or a compulsory middy skoll ( 10 Floz ) or pay a $2 fine to the team fine tin.
Across the grades we win far more games than we lose and only the firsts are exempt ( because they are knobs ).
Inny said:
Wouldn't you like to play a better standard of cricket, though?
Eh? Hell no! English village league cricket at 1st XI level can be seriously bloody competitive at times with overseas pros not unknown. In times gone by, we've had Glenn Mcgrath and Brian Lara up north in my part of the world playing on the village circuit.I much prefer the easy going 2nd XI nature of life.
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