Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
Seriously? I play at a completely budget level and there's always a reasonable bit of banter.The very first thing i've noticed about cricket in the U.K is that it's totally unacceptable for even a friendly 'banter' sledge, which i think made the games feel like they were missing something. I even encouraged the keeper to have a dig when i mistimed one and he didn't.
My personal favourites are when you get the 15/16 year olds who think they are the next big thing, oblivious to the fact that they are in Division 10. Last game of the summer, we were bowled out for 75 on a track that behaved much like a freshly ploughed field, and one individual appeared rather keen on having a word with us every ball, and telling the entire tail that they looked nervous. Naturally, when it was his turn to bat, with the scoreboard reading 16 for 6, we treated him to a reprise of his lines, and I added a ball-by-ball dissection of his batting technique for no extra cost. He didn't trouble the scorers.