How's Your Season Going? CW Cricket Diary

We're in North America.  There arent exactly people lining up to take your spot in this part of the continent.

Played a fete match yesterday.  My side won the toss and chose to bat.  We got 165 from 23 overs (25 0vers game).  I opened and made good pace 32 before I got bowled to a straight ball from an off spinner that kept low.   

I remember getting hit in the chin with a bouncer under my grill and that really hurt. But getting hit ON THE FULL, wow that's insane. Maybe you should get an x-ray or some scans on that, sounds like a nasty blow. Was it from a quicker or a slow bowler?

It was a fairly quick bowler but I think it was a slightly slower delivery. Although still sore it's not as bad as I had feared it would be this morning and I'm sure there's no serious damage done.

Tough luck there Clobber, get an x-ray. 

Well, there was excellent sunshine on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so the games went on.

Spinny, sunday we be looking to add another winners medal to our name. It's against our rivals "The Aussie" again and we be looking for revenge

Heh Heh CHAMPIONS once again.

If you think you had thing bad Slogger, I made 1 yesterday opening the innings and then went for 38 from my 2 overs and for a second, I thought I loss our side the cup but thankfully there was an excellent fight back from the other bowlers.

Edited by spin wizard - 17 August 2009 at 1:48pm

Unfortunately our semi-final went very badly in the end. The opposition turned up with a very weak bowling attack, so we decided to bat first on a worn and used pitch in the hope we could pile on the runs and leave them to bat on a terrible wicket later. We got off to great start as our openers put on 60 for the first wicket. Then one of them got out and our captain and star bat went for just 1. I came in and made a run a ball 10, before being stumped. We made 127-8 off our 20 overs in the end.

It turned out they only had one good batsmen who did all the scoring while his partner just hung around at the other end. He brought up his 50 in the 10th over with the score on 65-0. Just after came the moment that decided the match, I was standing up to one of our quicker bowlers to try and keep him in his crease when he bowled one down the legside. The batsmen stumbled out of his crease and I gathered it cleanly and stumped him, he was miles out of his ground (and I'm not the only who thinks this, our sqaure leg fielder agreed he was miles out). I ran off to celebrate a great stumping that would probably win us the match only to see that their umpire hadn't given it out, it was an unbelievable bit of cheating that won the game by 9 wickets (the batsmen finished 92*). So we were pretty gutted to loose but I guess if they want to cheat then there's nothing we could do about it.

He was the oppositions umpire, at U16 level it's mostly 1 umpire from each side (they're normally someone in the teams dad or the teams coach) so there's a lot of potential for cheating (and there often is). 

Originally posted by slogger72N/O He was the oppositions umpire, at U16 level it's mostly 1 umpire from each side (they're normally someone in the teams dad or the teams coach) so there's a lot of potential for cheating (and there often is).

Yerp, that's plain unconscionable. The solution... get guys out bowled!! I remember one time as a lad we were playing against a top side and only made 100 runs from our 20 overs. They came out to bat and were cruising 50 for none, and I was FINALLY given a bowl (I was probably the 6 bowler used maybe 7th). I took 3 wickets in 4 balls , 2 big ripping off breaks that took the stumps right out and a caught behind. The next over I got a big wicket, dismissing the big hitting left hander from around the wicket also bowled. The umpire at my end was the opposition coach and instead of grimmacing he was admiring my bowling and asking me for tips!!

Leggies bowl off spin pretty well. I've seen Warne get test wickets with conventional off breaks.

As an offie I hate darting it in. Love throwing it up outside off and watching it break back in to the batsman. An old coach of mine used to tell me to not go around the wicket to the left handers straight away and to throw the ball up outside leg and get the batsman out around his legs... let's say that I didn't get a lot of wickets doing that.

Well my preseason training isn't as advanced as I would have hoped. Just been so busy the last couple of weeks, and my club doesn't seem to have bothered with near as many indoor net sessions as last year. In fact, by this time last year we had had 6 indoor sessions, 2 of them being nets. Hopefully they get something going in Septmeber or else we (meaning bowlers) will all be going into the season terrible underbowled.