Your highest score / best figures?

[Migara]

Probably because most of us are generally unathletic and bowling spin (especially finger spin) in amateur cricket is hax

You don't have to be the slightest bit skilled or good to take a 6-8fer bowling spin in amateur cricket in my experience, sometimes it just happens. I played a year for a club and the "club champion" that year took 35 wickets bowling off-spin and he was genuinely terrible. Not even a quarter as good as any of the seam bowlers

Not actually the case in SC. Spinners are generally skillful and batsmen do play spin well. It is common to get expensive fivefors or sixfors, because batsmen do slog spinners when they are stuck. Some times they sail over too. Unless they are acompanied by tight spells from other bowlers it will not be much useful. However miserly spells needs skill. Because you have to convey the messge to the batters if you slog, you will get out. That will happen when one spins two feet, next one goes gun barrel straight and the next spins some where in between with bounce.

 

[Line and Length]

I should add that my 6/9 turned into match figures of 8/14.

But you already know how **** the opposition were.

Meanwhile here's Line and Length with his 10/37. Wonder which select XI of local amputees was on the wrong end of that? ?

It was our 1st Grade Club match and both teams have a proud history in the Association. We batted first on a green top (all out for 66). Two of our batsmen have been named in the Club's Best of 50 Years Team and they went for 7 and 2 in the first dig and 0 and 1* in the second. We only made runs against their opening quicks who got carried away with short stuff. Our opener top scored in both digs with 18 and 22 (we made 8-78 decl in the second). I wasn't the only bowler with flattering match figures. Our other bowlers finished with 3/15, 4/19 and 3/1. Their opening bowlers (6/45 and 3/52) weren't as effective as their back-ups who had 3/10, 2/5 and 1/18. The pitch was a nightmare with ball seaming about. Not much fun.
I was able to provide this info as I was the Club's statistician for many years and I kept a scorebook with some of the more memorable games.
Keep your nasty remarks to yourself.

 

[Aritro]

Keep your nasty remarks to yourself.

Lol. Yeah, it was obviously a joke. Lighten up ffs

 

[Midwinter]

I want more information from JBMAC

 

[Line and Length]

Lol. Yeah, it was obviously a joke. Lighten up ffs

You made a point of singling out my performance with a derogatory remark. Not my idea of a joke.

 

[ajdude]

made my first 50 last summer (51 to be precise) in third grade against a team with 9 players (6 of which were kids) and i got dropped three times. **** them though, if they can't handle the heat they should stay out of the ****ing kitchen

 

[TheJediBrah]

It was our 1st Grade Club match and both teams have a proud history in the Association. We batted first on a green top (all out for 66). Two of our batsmen have been named in the Club's Best of 50 Years Team and they went for 7 and 2 in the first dig and 0 and 1* in the second. We only made runs against their opening quicks who got carried away with short stuff. Our opener top scored in both digs with 18 and 22 (we made 8-78 decl in the second). I wasn't the only bowler with flattering match figures. Our other bowlers finished with 3/15, 4/19 and 3/1. Their opening bowlers (6/45 and 3/52) weren't as effective as their back-ups who had 3/10, 2/5 and 1/18. The pitch was a nightmare with ball seaming about. Not much fun.
I was able to provide this info as I was the Club's statistician for many years and I kept a scorebook with some of the more memorable games.
Keep your nasty remarks to yourself.

Can't wait for someone to go hunting through decades of MyCricket stats to hunt down the real identities of people posting ITT

 

[_Ed_]

In high school, my highest score was a mighty 12 off four balls - three consecutive uppish cut shots, followed by a fourth in the same area... after a fielder had been placed there. The vast majority of my innings were Chris Martin-esque ducks or ones at number 11.

Bowling-wise, I was a miserly but often wicketless new-ball seamer. I did take 4-4 from four overs once, but there was also a game that was mercifully rained off while I had figures of 0.3-0-18-0. I blame a slippery run-up for that one, of course.

 

[Daemon]

4-30
72 but actually 68 because i got 4 for one that came off my thigh

All this was in school. After 15 I couldn’t keep up with the really good kids.

 

[wpdavid]

I was never remotely good enough to play at anything above club level. I did once pass 50 against even more moderate opposition than ourselves, which surprised everyone as it was about 40 more than I usually made. My best bowling was 5 for not very many for Banstead's 4th XI many, many years ago. My main asset was my deceptive pace, insofar as it was much slower than batsmen expected. I ran in from 30 yards and sent it down at slow medium. Three of my five wickets were caught at mid-on because the batsman played the shot way too soon. It was all the more glorious because I'd been brought on about fifth change after our usual bowlers had struggled to make any break-throughs. So I turned up the following week expecting to send down a few overs, but the bloody captain never bowled me again.

 

[Jack1]

So far I’m the only one to have taken a hat trick.

FUN FACT: all three of these dismissals went via the LBW route, and the umpire was semi-pro

I’ve taken one too. I didn’t think to ask it in the original.

 

[srbhkshk]

Took 4 for 1 in a game we played on a pitch that had been ravaged by rain the previous night. Was the only time ever in life I managed to move the ball.

Also hit the winning four in that game during the last wicket partnership, the funny things was the other team lacked a player so we had given them one of ours to field, when I hit the shot they all looked at our team mate since he was right in position to stop it, he put forward his hands pretending to stop it and then let it pass. The opposition captain was massively pissed before it was pointed out that the guy loaned out for fielding and this dude were two different guys. He was rather pissed after it being pointed out as well, but not as much as before.

 

[honestbharani]

All this was in school. After 15 I couldn’t keep up with the really good kids.

Yeah.. I played till 15 too. Desi parents in India wont let their kids play cricket during their 11th and 12th year exams in school, huh?

One of the biggest regrets of my life has been the fact that I did not play in college. I felt I was getting into my best sports form in those years of 18-22 and would have been the prime of my life playing casual sports.

 

[bagapath]

As for my bowling peak, here is a repost of my self-intro on the "welcome to cricketweb"thread
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Grew up in a small village down south where I was the best off spinner in the vicinity. Once took 7 for 1 including a hat-trick. It was on this beautiful little ground next to an old CSI church. Like Lords', the pitch in the middle had a slope and I was bowling downhill. Well, everyone bowled downhill because we had only four stumps so we never changed ends.

The first batsman swept me and got caught at square leg. Had he hit me towards midwicket it was a certain four. We never placed fielders in midwicket because that was where four cows belonging to the church used to graze, crap and sleep - even during the matches.

The second guy got stumped. He wanted to hit me straight over my head. The straight boundary was much shorter and ended at the father's garden. but the batter missed the ball by six inches; flight does that you . My good friend, the wk, finished the job.

The third one fell to a beauty. I remember the ball pitching well outside the off stump. It spun viciously between Martin's (the opposition's star batter and the guy who was close enough to the church authorities to get us permission to play there) bat and left-pad (we managed with the one pair of pads one of us had, the right leg was always naked and all batted right handed) and took middle and leg. it is still the greatest moment of my life. what martin doesnt know till today, he is the gardener in the church these days, is that the ball that got him actually slipped out of my hand.

the street i grew up in became the name of our cricket team. and it eventually became my nick on CW.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

My best bowling was a 6-fer the day after I went to the Big Day Out and I was hungover as ****. Apparently if you pick up a 6-fer you're supposed to shout everyone in the clubrooms a pint but I hated most of those people so I quickly snuck out the back and went home right after the game finished.

 

[Burgey]

GRADE: 127 not out. Carried my bat from opening
STATE: 83
COUNTRY: 33

Not a bowler but a Stumper... best i can recall is five dismissals in one innings

The clue’s always been in your username, as I’ve long suspected. But it’s great to have your ID confirmed. Kudos.

I’d love to buy you a beer one day and hear some yarns, Ogo

 

[mr_mister]

He's Jack Blackham?

 

[Burgey]

Not many test players regularly post on these boards. It’s a fair credit to JB that he’s so self-effacing. a lot of blokes who’ve played to that standsrd aren’t that tolerant of the opinions of randos like us

 

[bagapath]

GRADE: 127 not out. Carried my bat from opening
STATE: 83
COUNTRY: 33

Not a bowler but a Stumper... best i can recall is five dismissals in one innings

Good to know your ID Mr JBMAC. As Burgey says, would be a pleasure to hear your stories over a drink.

 

[mr_mister]

John Maclean (Australian cricketer) - Wikipedia

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This nearly checks out... But the FC highest score is wrong