How's Your Season Going? CW Cricket Diary

School nets yesterday went very well.  I bowled consistently, although half a foot too short, which was annoying. My batting was solid as a rock and my teacher bowled some of his 65 mph yorkers at me. I didn't get out though and he said I had a chance of opening for the firsts if I bat as well as that every week. 

unfortunatley they are 

This year, I'm the captain of my school's [indoor] team. Our first match is on Thursday; we'll be playing without our ONLY fast bowler because his paperwork was late. I've figured over the past 2 years playing club cricket and indoor cricket that its true that "fast bowlers are born, not made..." Sooo, I've decided to bowl my crappy medium for the rest of this season and switch over to left-hand spin next season.

I'm a pretty technically correct batsman [I think... heheheee]. I'm opening the innings for my school team.

I've also improved my fielding immensely this year; my coach sometimes calls me 'jonty' [as a compliment].

I'm planning to play U-17 in summer - mainly as a batsman.

in the style of saadvanceds post i thought id give you a random summary

Our next school game is against Warilla, according to our P.E teacher one of their batsman scored 160 odd and one of their bowlers took an 8 wicket haul.

As soon as our team heard that, everybody was like "oohoooh we're gonna get smashed" or "we'll get flogged", and then I just started thinking to myself,  jeez what kind of mindset is that, you're never going to win if you're not positive, I just don't think our captain is fit to lead a team, a captain is meant to motivate the players, not join in with the "we're gonna get smashed" type lines.

is that 72 overs a side, or the match lasts 72 overs?

My season kicks off on the 31st of March but I am not sure yet if I would be playing or if my team is playing on that date. I can't wait to have a go in the International stadium.

Originally posted by ANIL KUMBLE Originally posted by Clobber is that 72 overs a side, or the match lasts 72 overs?   72 over a side. Well earlier today heavy rain fall delayed the game after 1 hour we came out and  we were all over them after continuing from 4-131 from 58 overs we took 4-18 from the last 14 years. With one of our bowlers taking 5-27 from 15 overs.

4/18 from the last 14 years?

Well I didn't have a very good nets today wen i was boling with a large number of wide and short piched balls .The batting shaped out really well and I middled most of the balls except one which hit me on my ris .it wasnt that fast a ball so no damage done hopefully and there isn't any pain either .

i played school cricket the other day, we playd a one dayer 35 overs a side and i bowled 7 overs 2/25. My first spell of 4 overs went for 8 and i was unlucky to get no wickets but i bowled the second spell of three overs for twenty runs and was lucky to get two wickets so it balanced out, i got run out for 1. It was one of those run outs where you back up and the ball hits the bowlers hand and hits the stumps.

Had our last innings of the season today, i took 2-30odd off 14 overs, with a slight 1st innings deficit + what they scored we were chasing 181 to win, we fell 50 short on a absolute rubbish pitch.

Over the last few net sessions i've been working on my over spinner which has a lot of height and dip and rips forwards low when it bounces, going ok  but its hard with the murali action

ive always had a problem with balls just back of a lenght, i should learn to cut really

Had trials today for the under 18 "winter excellance training programme" squad, over a couple of days about 60-70 people trial and 18 make the squad. Its a stupid squad, once every two weeks a 2 hour session of basic skills over the winter months at the academy centre. I wont make it even though i got like 5-6 wickets (in 45 mins of bowling) as im just not quick enough to make it as pace bowler, and not accurate enough to make it as a containing bowler.

Found myself a new club in Hardington & East Coker cricket club, and got my first training session a week on Sunday with them, hopefully they could do with somebody of my skill and calibre in the side.