How's Your Season Going? CW Cricket Diary

. Not bad.

My nets are going fairly well at the moment, I'm getting some wickets and not getting out very often when I'm batting

or even worse.... it rains

What planet are you on?! Cricket in the rain sucks donkey balls...

Originally posted by Chin Music What planet are you on?! Cricket in the rain sucks donkey balls...

hmm i only took 1-30 off 7 today, terrible effort by me, though i am injured at the moment. I had pretty good figures until one guy hit 2 consecutive 'Mal Loye sweep off the fast bowler' shots for 6. Thats the end of our 2 day games though.....bring on the one dayers

Started indoor net practice yesterday. My bowling was diabolical, leg side wides, full tosses, had no control over my swing. My bowling always takes a couple of nets to get in tune.

My latest net session:

http://jpreturntothecrease.blogspot.com/

Pictures/Video might be available at some point...

this is a really good thread some good posting in it.

My school net session was cancelled on Thursday x 100. Its definitely on next Thursday though, and then I will hopefully stake my claim for the first XI unless I bowl like I did a month ago. My batting is as solid as ever and I've noticed that with my new bat, my drives have slowly started to feel nicer and nicer. Tomorrow, I'm going to get pads, helmet, elbow pad and bag and then bring on the cricket season (in 3 months time )

Yeah. Clear out your PM's!  

Cool, I'll PM you in a minute.

Surprise, surprise! I went to practice yesterday! I trained on the grass and not the pitch as it isn't finished yet. I bowled for an hour odd and I have to say, I was impressed by how well I bowled for a comeback from 5 months of not bowling on a full length area. I thought I was gonna bowl pure crap but not so. I didn't get my line and turn at first but as the time went on, I found back my turn and the line and length a bit. I Bowled a lot of long hops though.

 

None of variations came good. Only one googly came on target - all the rest were long hops. Probably 2 top spinners came on target - all the rest was down the leg side.  No sliders went on target. All went down the leg side but they went straight on though. I tried 2 flippers - the first is probably the biggest long hop I have bowled in my life and the other was a yorker. The good news for it is that it was right in line to the stumps.

 

My leggies were good though. I got them to turn and got the over spinners to dip. I kept on changing my flight and pace a bit. I had a bit of trouble with the side spinners early on. The release was a bit messed up but I fixed it and started to land the balls in line with the stumps and out side leg and got them to turn. I could see the seam clearly and it wasn't scrambled at all.  

Edited by spin wizard - 04 February 2007 at 6:16pm

My second session wasnt as bad as the first, I got through it without doing any damage to myself and after a few bad balls I was getting it on target almost all the time. I wasn't bowling particularly quickly but I was getting the ball in the right place and was cutting it about a bit, bowled a left hander twice and got an edge off a right hander so thats a good sign for a second ever net session.

As for my batting.. well I had a shocking session, first ball bowled me, most my shots went up in the air, some bloke I bowled twice was bowling some rather nasty bouncers which wasnt so much fun without a helmet on but I hit a wonderful shot from a ball that would have left a hole in my chest, unfortunatly I knew nothing about it till I had hit and and I havent worked out what it was yet, a sort of cut shot but there was no brain involved, if there had I wouldnt have tried that shot =p

All in all a pretty good session and as its not the greatest team in the world and apparantly they often only have 9-10 players turn up I should be a regular in the team and get some matches come april.

thats well unfair our training session got canceled for tongiht which means i got to wait another week or 2

TRAINING TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry 2 hours and 45 mins of heaven.

I'm going to concentrate so hard on my bowling, this is my make or break season and I'm not going to let it pass by me.