Club cricket thread

PaddyP17 said:

AshBurton said:

PaddyP17 said:

Following on from my plea for players earlier in the week:

I'm the 4th team skipper. I had 18 (18!!!) available until last night. By contrast, the 1s and 2s both had seven. Everything is upside down.

We now all have eleven and one of the best bowlers at the club has "just become available" and it's really really really annoying that that's happened so late on. And we can't dick people around any more, so he's not playing.

Sigh. Why is the mechanics of club cricket side selection harder to understand than fucking quantum physics...

No, that must be a misunderstanding @PaddyP17, I'm definitely in the South of France this weekend...

I was talking about Ash Jr. His flight leaves in two hours. Make sure he's at the airport safe and sound.

Ash Junior unlikely to be going anywhere - he's too busy trying to interest the local girls in his googlies

A few years back I came out of retirement for a couple of seasons and played for a 'dad's and lads' side.
On Tuesday, one of the 'lads' hit an unbeaten 156 against the MCC.
he opens for Sidcup 1s now and obviously took on board all I was teaching him back when we were opening partners, then dismissed it all.

You didn't mention who got the other scalp :P

PaddyP17 said:

Sigh. Just when I'm thinking "ooh, I have a decent team here, we're in with a sniff", we were 76 all out this week.

Then again, having been 29-8, to get even that many was amazing. Credit to the CL Colfeians - between the three of us we scored 51 of the runs!

Couple of scalps for me in the reply as they won by 7 wickets. (Gonna pat myself on the back here and recite 8-5-11-2)

In unrelated news, I am looking for someone to coach our side on how to run between the wickets.

Not sure what you mean Paddy - I ran the first two and a half runs of the very easy three perfectly. Admittedly I may have dawdled a bit for the remaining half a run, as I didn't expect an Exocet missile to be launched from 60 yards away and score a direct hit on my stumps. **Hangs head in shame**

Pelling1993 said:

First Sunday friendly game of the season, we were set 222 to win from 40 overs, myself and our opening bat were 189-0 off 30 overs, we were both dismissed within 3 balls of each other. We ended up 201-9 from 40 overs. I suddenly remembered why i only play league cricket....

12 runs off 10 overs losing 9 wickets after that start has got to be some sort of record collapse /fuck up

oohaahmortimer said:

Pelling1993 said:

First Sunday friendly game of the season, we were set 222 to win from 40 overs, myself and our opening bat were 189-0 off 30 overs, we were both dismissed within 3 balls of each other. We ended up 201-9 from 40 overs. I suddenly remembered why i only play league cricket....

12 runs off 10 overs losing 9 wickets after that start has got to be some sort of record collapse /fuck up

It was quite impressive to watch, the captain hasn't uploaded the game to play cricket yet, i'll post it on here when he has

PaddyP17 said:

Very true!

Leuth with 31* and the other wicket, so a creditable performance from us two.

Speaking of cricket mate - 1pm at the club please this Saturday!

shame i missed out on meeting you ....i didnt play on saturday although the CCCC skip is a charlton fan

must admit it quite an achievement to be run out by any of our team ...its comfortably the worst fielding side i

have ever seen

PaddyP17 said:

lolwray said:

PaddyP17 said:

Very true!

Leuth with 31* and the other wicket, so a creditable performance from us two.

Speaking of cricket mate - 1pm at the club please this Saturday!

shame i missed out on meeting you ....i didnt play on saturday although the CCCC skip is a charlton fan

must admit it quite an achievement to be run out by any of our team ...its comfortably the worst fielding side i

have ever seen

Ask about Assad's run out. It was phenomenal. Shame we didn't cross paths this season!

that explains it Assad is just a kid compared to the rest !

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PaddyP17 said:

Sigh. Just when I'm thinking "ooh, I have a decent team here, we're in with a sniff", we were 76 all out this week.

Then again, having been 29-8, to get even that many was amazing. Credit to the CL Colfeians - between the three of us we scored 51 of the runs!

Couple of scalps for me in the reply as they won by 7 wickets. (Gonna pat myself on the back here and recite 8-5-11-2)

In unrelated news, I am looking for someone to coach our side on how to run between the wickets.

I would volunteer but I'm not sure that I am qualified to do so given that, despite giving clear instructions on the art of doing so, my son, Seb, still managed to run himself out last week - off a "free hit" that he had already been caught off!

In my sons semi final u11 match South Loughton v Wanstead his team managed to get 7 run outs out of the 9 wickets that fell in the 20 over match they won comfortably 135 against prolly 70

I've gone for that many in an over, albeit not to win a match!

Yesterday went rather better. A tidy ten-over spell, two wickets and a catch of the season contender that gave one of our other bowlers (whose bowling I'd been constantly and remorselessly slagging off behind his back) a wicket that he soon added to (both with rank, rank long-hops) (I suppose I'd best admit that one of my wickets was a double-bouncer) (I was turning it square though, square!)

Paddy bowled (and batted) well too and Ash batted ok I suppose

also Paddy caught my other wicket thanks Paddy

I've read your dating story too now btw

and have nothing to add

Lost our first game (T20) after a three game unbeaten run on Wednesday night to our bogie team who have now beaten us three times in a row. Annoyingly we've beaten much better teams than them this season. We finished 105-7 to their 151-6.

Batting figures for me weren't great, most of my runs coming off their wide bowling - just 14 off 25 balls. Bowling better though, 1-13 off two overs.