with the long cold winters, and the wet summers how does anyone become good. i presume they excel when they leave school
what do you think
HahahahaYou obviously haven't seen much of the England cricket team recently.
Are you telling me there's anyone who didn't today?!You've just had a game rained off, haven't you?
Not too sure what the 'z' means but we managed to play on Sunday. It poured down during the innings break but we were only playing a friendly and their bowlers were not quick enough to make the pitch dangerous.
I've never seen weather as bad as in the last couple of days here.. Almost exciting to be honest.. Felt like one of those Stormchaser guys on the discovery channel..The z is simply to avoid :-O from turning into :-o, which de-smiley-s the combination.
I'm astonished anywhere in the country escaped rain-delays yesterday TBH, given how appalling the weather has been around here the last 4-5 days.
Where I live and play, I think there is no problem on this front at all, there are a lot of quality cricker clubs in and around liverpool (though there are a few horrible ones to balance that) and uncountable numbers of random village grounds around the Lancashire/Wales/bit in between region. The state of cricket in non public schools is admittedly very poor, but I never had much faith in the school 'cricket' system tbh, schools are for learning, cricket clubs are for playing cricket.I've always been shocked by the lack of cricket culture and the paucity of good facilities for the general public in a country that supposedly invented the sport.. I think the only reason they are any good is a large population and good public schools, where the majority of good cricketers are still drawn from, rightly or wrongly..
Seconed to that, especially with the school cricket part where i would say only in London & Lancashire has the competition been strong over the years.Where I live and play, I think there is no problem on this front at all, there are a lot of quality cricker clubs in and around liverpool (though there are a few horrible ones to balance that) and uncountable numbers of random village grounds around the Lancashire/Wales/bit in between region. The state of cricket in non public schools is admittedly very poor, but I never had much faith in the school 'cricket' system tbh, schools are for learning, cricket clubs are for playing cricket.
Aye, indeed. Good-quality cricket in schools is useful, especially for getting kids into the game ITFP (usually at a very young age of course), but in the end you need a good local club to make much progress in this country and almost always have, at least since about 1950.Where I live and play, I think there is no problem on this front at all, there are a lot of quality cricker clubs in and around liverpool (though there are a few horrible ones to balance that) and uncountable numbers of random village grounds around the Lancashire/Wales/bit in between region. The state of cricket in non public schools is admittedly very poor, but I never had much faith in the school 'cricket' system tbh, schools are for learning, cricket clubs are for playing cricket.