Club cricket thread

Reduced to a 30 over game we batted first and were all out in the last over for 165 with only 3 making double figures .
O’C were reduced to 44/4 after 10 overs before the rain finished it .
Boffin got (I think he said a big fella ) given out lbw but the batsmen was adamant he got an inside edge on it and being a class act like his father 😆 said the batsmen could stay in .
Think he said a few of their players aren’t all south of the river hence they were ok with travelling to the dark side 

That's why you wear a helmet! Well it isn't why you wear a helmet, actually. You don't wear a helmet for that 

Back in around 1990, I captained my Sunday team against Linden Park 2's, played on one of the old bank grounds in Beckenham. We got 162 all out.  I didn't think it was enough, as we'd lost the away game earlier in the season by 5 wickets, and it was most of the same players again. 

I opened with our spinner, and rotated our three "quicks" from the other end. The spinner, helped by three or four excellent catches in the deep, took wickets at regular intervals. 

When he took his ninth wicket (a club record), and all catches by the way, with the score on 150-odd, I told him it wouldn't matter a jot if we lost!

Our quickest bowler then got snicked over the slips, and despite another maiden from the spinner, Linden Park needed six to win.  Should I risk the quick bowler again?  No, my only option was for me to bowl my dobblers. Luckily, I only went for three, so they were still another three runs short of winning. 

My spinner back on, he bowled the last man with his fourth ball and we won by two runs.  His figures were 19.4 - 6- 92 - 10.

It was a fantastic game, but sadly the scorebook, completed in haste by Linden Park players, was a complete mess, with names crossed out, smudged ink, etc. 

Thank fully one of our players wrote a poem about the game.  It was called "When Malcolm took all ten..."

Happy days!

Addick Addict said:

Jake Weatherald, is a South Australia and Adelaide Strikers player who Seb played against last season in the South Australia League. He is, however, currently playing for Barnsley Wool Miners CC in the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League.

At the weekend his team played Whiston Parish Church. Weatherald opened the batting and was out in the 40th over of a 50 over game. For 270. Off 107 balls that included 17 fours and 27 sixes. His side made 512-9 but only managed to win, in a tightly contested affair, by 333 runs! That takes Weatherald to 1815 runs for the season from 29 innings at an average of 72.60 and that includes three ducks!

https://bwmcc.play-cricket.com/website/results/5030913   

Who knew that Barnsley Wool Miners CC was a breeding ground for an Australian Ashes squad member?

Roshan Jayatissa is back for his third season at Sandwich Town Cricket Club next season. Good bowler, who can bat, he'll do very well in the Championship I think.

did they win that match?

oohaahmortimer said:

did they win that match?

Bickley lost by 6 runs chasing 275 for victory. Seb got out the first ball of the final over:

https://highlights.frogbox.tv/5-943d2b12-6a19-48cb-bed3-c266d76d2fe8/b012ea1f-91c8-49d5-b62a-243e4ba257a7.m3u8?dt=1752344810&start=7&end=37&utm_app=MatchCentre&utm_app_group=MC_EMBEDDED&utm_app_action=highlight_view 

oohaahmortimer said:

great knock , why is he chucking in League cricket , to concentrate on golf ?
Will he still play some cricket ?
That's a shame for such a talent 

Thanks for asking. It is mainly to concentrate on the golf and see where his game takes him.

It's more than fair to say that things haven't worked out for Seb as he would have liked on the batting side and last season was his worst ever. As one Kent coach once put it "Seb is talented but doesn't put enough runs in the book" and that is, ultimately what it is all about.

Part of that is down to his own head and part of it is due to circumstance. He is a very good keeper but he has always seen himself as a batter that keeps and batting at 7 or opening and keeping too isn't ideal from that perspective. Fundamentally, though, he is one of those players who doesn't feel mentally in the best place unless he's been training several times a week - it's no coincidence that his best period of batting was in Australia when he hit a couple of 80s for the DLCA against South Australia U19s and when he was hitting balls five days a week whereas it would be once a week last year.

Seb is also now so heavily involved in coaching (Kent regional and a bit of Kent Academy work as a specialist keeping coach) and has recently spent two weeks in Derby doing his Level 3 badge so playing cricket has become a bit of a "busman's holiday". He has had one offer of playing in The Smash as part of his Golf Club's team with one or two of the Billings clan so he might turn out for the very odd game for them midweek. He might also be in a totally different space in a year's time and feel better for the break but that would probably mean that the golf isn't going so well. 

All of that said, none of his sporting journey has been wasted simply because the cricket, tennis, table tennis and golf that he has played to a decent level means he can teach those sports at the school he is at (as well as helping out with football, rugby, hockey and even netball). But, more to the point, because he is still only 22, all the not so good experiences are very recent ones and mean that he can empathise with those youngsters that are going through the system now. It's fair to say that, after 12 years, of being on the cricket pathway, he is now at his happiest ever and at peace with where he is now.

As to what I will be doing on a Saturday having watched him for over a decade I don't know. I am a member of three clubs and might just take the opportunity to go to all of them from time to time. Without the concern of how things are going to work out for Seb in the game that is. He can message me from the golf course instead!   

Pedro45 said:

Good luck Seb. You dont fancy being his caddy then AA? ;-)

I think you've seen how much I move when he's been playing cricket. I think it's fair to say that I would be dead by the time he got to the third tee!