*Official* CW English Meet-Up

[Neil Pickup]

In fairness, I bowled one "grenade" in seven overs and it was a dot ball!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Decent action on the ball from Neil (assuming its an offspinner).

Good seam position with what looks like some overspin included to make life hard for the batsman.

Wilf Rhodes said that spinners must get the ball above the eyeline of the batsman in order to force them to move their head and eyes and make judgement more difficult.

Congrats to Neil for upholding the fine traditional values of English spin bowling

Good photos BTW

Well this post proves it. Neil is such a pathetic legspinner that he's a traditional English offspinner.

 

[Richard]

And Richard, I get called Rich because otherwise it would get confusing, plus I don't like being called Richard so much...

Nor do I...
Rich H and Rich D seems simple enough to me...

 

[Richard]

But one feels Richard's new approach to the game will only lead to frustration

Haha, got my impersonations.

 

[Richard]

The fellow at the bottom is Richard Dickinson?

Richard>Makhaya Ntini.

I'm not actually bowling, BTW... that's just impersonating someone at the fall of a wicket, can't remember who, I usually do about 50 per innings...

 

[Richard]

BTW, Rich... did you actually take any of me bowling properly?

 

[luckyeddie]

BTW, Rich... did you actually take any of me bowling properly?

He was only there a day

/runs

 

[Richard]

runs

No, no - bowling, bowling about not conceding runs, not scoring them.

 

[Smudge]

I can't believe someone so boring could look so normal.

Kinda hot, almost.



(and I don't mean Neil)

 

[andyc]

Spot the ball competition

 

[Smudge]

I doubt Neil would be able to spot it either, through those glasses.

 

[luckyeddie]

I doubt Neil would be able to spot it either, through those glasses.

I think the ball being right at the top of the frame is one of those perspective/parallax problems - sort-of like an optical illusion caused by the cameraman lying on the ground when he took the picture.

Must have been Neil's second delivery then.

 

[Langeveldt]

BTW, Rich... did you actually take any of me bowling properly?

yes, ill post them on here in a mo if you like

 

[Pedro Delgado]

I'm not actually bowling, BTW... that's just impersonating someone at the fall of a wicket, can't remember who, I usually do about 50 per innings...

Looks like you're doing Andre Nel there, to me.

 

[Langeveldt]

BTW, Rich... did you actually take any of me bowling properly?

Sure

 

[andyc]

Was he out?

 

[marc71178]

Only on the second chance.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Was he out?

No... not in the scorebook, anyway

 

[Langeveldt]

I thought he was out, nicked it behind to give Richard his only wicket..

First chance average? Bloody Fifteenth chance average more like..

 

[Neil Pickup]

I thought he was out, nicked it behind to give Richard his only wicket..

First chance average? Bloody Fifteenth chance average more like..

Nah, Richard's wicket came when the other opener played a nothing shot and guided a nothing ball to backward point/gully. The photo above is when Yaxley nicked it to the keeper but the umpire didn't notice.