My Local Team and T20 Cricket

[benchmark00]

So, the situation of my local club has become front page news this week. We're under the jurisdiction of Boroondara Council, and as of this year we've been banned from playing T20 at our ground.

Twenty20 cricket banned from Melbourne parks | Herald Sun

To put some background to the situation, our ground borders a main road, which has a four metre high fence protecting it, and a quieter road which has a three metre fence protecting it, and a number of cars park in this street. When the fences were put up, they were both supposed to be four metres, and now when we play on the side pitch near the quiet road it can get a fair few balls on the road (reckon on average four a day).

Unfortunately for us, the council's risk assessor comes along to one game a year, and happened to come along to watch us in a One Day game where we played Brad Hodge on that side pitch near the road, and he smashed us everywhere and was targetting the small boundary, and hence a fair few balls went on the road. The council came back to us after that and told us that we're not able to play T20s at our home ground.

Basically, any ideas (esp. with a few legal people around here) on what we can/could do to try and help our situation and get back onto the home ground. One of the biggest problems is not the parked cars but cars driving past.

Bowl flatter.

 

[Burgey]

The great Lord Denning must be turning over in his grave.

Miller v Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in County Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good club house for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team play there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings after work they practise while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play there any more. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket. But now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket ground. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at week-ends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for more houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much the poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there next to the cricket ground.

Lord Denning was a ****.

He also invented the Flaming Edgar ftr.

On a serious note, bowl from one end.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Play all the games on Ashes Cricket 09. Completely safe.

 

[uvelocity]

do a topless protest like femen on the council steps imo

 

[Jono]

Lord Denning was a ****.

His judgement in Miller v Jackson is awesome, one of the greatest judgments ever.

 

[benchmark00]

Pet hate of mine is when people spell it 'judgement' instead of 'judgment' ftr

 

[Jono]

Will increase doing it then.

Nah good spot. Will blame it on the fact I no longer have to analyse and write about them.

 

[Jarquis]

Whereas I do

 

[Garson007]

Has anyone ever thought that maybe the council are just traditionalists and despise the 20 over game?

My thoughts exactly.