Hows your club cricket season going so far?

[Stumped]

Just wondering how your club cricket season is going so far?

 

[Neil Pickup]

You're probably better off with this in Cricket Chat. No one reads this forum much!

 

[Stumped]

oh ok...im fairly new here and putting it in cricket club section just seemed perfect.

 

[Neil Pickup]

That's OK - I'll move it for you

 

[Stumped]

Thank you muchly appreciated

 

[silentstriker]

So I had my first practice.

I quickly found out that I come from the Inzy-Martin school of batting. I'm like Inzy between the wickets and Chris Martin when playing a shot. I decided to play fancy and hook a bouncer to midwicket boundry. Unfortunatly, my shot was about 15 seconds late and the ball hit me in the head.

After that, it was all a bit dizzy. Oh, I do remember falling down while trying to run between a wicket, and thus got run out after scoring like 8 runs.

When fielding, I make Monty look like Jonty. I had a nice easy catch and couple easy stops, but if the ball was more than five inches from my body, it was going to the boundry.

With all that said, it was quite fun and I'm definatly going to go again.

PS. Some of them bowlers are fast.

That was my first practice. It was all downhill from there.

 

[Neil Pickup]

The English Cricket Season 2006 - well, mainly me, Matt, George & Alex, with contributions from a few others.

 

[Turbinator]

My school season was done in October... played four 15 over games... didn't make it past round robin. I opened batting in each game, and opened bowling in the first and last game... got owned in first but did pretty well in last.

My Scores

1st game - 0
2nd game - 25
3rd game - 12
4th game - 6

Average - 10.75
Average scores in those 15 overs per team was around 50

*Didn't keep track of bowling stats

 

[adharcric]

Winter league starts for me in a few weeks. We'll have white balls and colored uniforms and all so it should be interesting. After that, some college cricket ... hopefully with the seasoned ball and not tape-tennis this semester, but we don't have a pitch yet. Finally, summer league starts in March or April. Lots of cricket.

 

[archie mac]

My team Weston Creek is winning 1st grade, in fact we win most years.

My team of which I am captain is the 5th grade side, the goal is to make the final four and qualify for the play offs, we are currently 4th one game behind the side coming 3rd and one game in front of the side coming 5th

 

[Jono]

In terms of the team, we're doing excellent. In the top 4 half-way through the season, so its going to be a pleasant Christmas. Particularly considering we ended up last the previous season.

On a personal note its been mixed, mainly due to me having a stop-start season with injuries, holidays and exams obstructing any sort of continuancy.

With the ball as a leggie I've only really had one good game. That was 3-9, which included having my hattrick ball dropped . Other than that its been very ordinary. So far with the first half of the season over I have 7 overs 3-53. Not pretty. Hoping to have a better second-half of the season, which is whath happened to me last season. Before Christmas last season I only had 1-29 off 4 overs, then in the second half I had figures of 6-94 24.1 overs. Considering it was my first season back to club cricket in ages, I was pretty satisfied with 28.1 overs, 7-123 for the whole season.

With the bat I haven't had many opportunities, but so far I've got 21 runs at an average of 21. Including the odd higher grade match, 26 runs at an average of 13.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Had a terrible run early in the season with 2, 2, 0, 9, 15, 2 but ressurected it somewhat with scores of 34 and 45 in the last two matches. Need to make them bigger, though.

 

[adharcric]

How many of you have changed roles completely over the past few years?
I was a first-change seamer and middle-order batsman in high school, then a opening/first-change seamer and tail-ender in my first season of league, then a opening batsman in my second season of league and this season i'll probably be an opening bat and a leggie (possibly offie).

 

[silentstriker]

I started off as a gun middle order batsmen. After ten minutes into the practice, I was a pace bowler and by the end of the session I was sitting in the stands behind the practice field.

 

[adharcric]

I started off as a gun middle order batsmen.

As in Chris Martin gun?

After ten minutes into the practice, I was a pace bowler

Made Ganguly look like Marshall?

by the end of the session I was sitting in the stands behind the practice field.

That's your thing. Not much I can say here tbh.

 

[marc71178]

I started off as a gun middle order batsmen. After ten minutes into the practice, I was a pace bowler and by the end of the session I was sitting in the stands behind the practice field.

* inserts comment about Indian pace bowlers *

 

[howardj]

Been a stop-start season. Haven't played more than two games in a row as yet. Looking forward to playing some consecutive games after Xmas. Been very happy with my batting. Not so happy with my bowling.

 

[Stumped]

hopefully moving to keeper after the holiday break, use to field at slip

 

[luffy]

Batting Ave: 21.42
Bowling Ave:12
5 catches at keeper, 2 in field

Junior Team: 3rd
3rd Grade: 2nd

 

[James90]

How many of you have changed roles completely over the past few years?
I was a first-change seamer and middle-order batsman in high school, then a opening/first-change seamer and tail-ender in my first season of league, then a opening batsman in my second season of league and this season i'll probably be an opening bat and a leggie (possibly offie).

I used to be an opening batsman who was thrown the ball regularly and took wickets. Now I'm a wicketkeeper batting in the middle order.