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Black_cap_95 
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Joined: 15 December 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 228 |
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 Topic: Back Yard CricketPosted: 04 February 2006 at 9:55am |
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What is the best type of backyard cricket ball in your opinion
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go hard or go home
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Charlie
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Joined: 29 October 2005 Posts: 202 |
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Posted: 04 February 2006 at 10:08am |
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tennis ball
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Clobber
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Joined: 03 January 2006 Posts: 8838 |
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Posted: 04 February 2006 at 11:30am |
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Get one of those "swingking" type balls as they are a bit heavier and you can practice against a swinging ball etc
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MiNiWaRnEy
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Posted: 04 February 2006 at 11:30am |
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The Thommo Swing King.
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saadadvanced7
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4000 Test Runs Joined: 04 August 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 3938 |
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Posted: 05 February 2006 at 8:14am |
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A tennis ball is just fine.
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Regulation without integration leads to suicide.
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Rafay
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Joined: 28 January 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 81 |
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Posted: 05 February 2006 at 9:41pm |
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Tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape. White tape is usually the best if you plan on playing in the late evening, but white electrical tape might be a bit hard to find. You could also tape one side of the ball to get swing
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minimurali
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Like Murali, only smaller...and rubbish Joined: 05 February 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1723 |
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Posted: 06 February 2006 at 4:10pm |
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tennis ball works for me. You get almost as much spin but no swing for fast bowling
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County Sim on extended break until I've got less work and more free time. When I have a specific date, I'll post it in the thread.
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snell77
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Joined: 28 November 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 173 |
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Posted: 14 February 2006 at 6:12pm |
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Try a windball...
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warnester
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The boy who can bowl off-spin both ways Joined: 20 January 2006 Posts: 861 |
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Posted: 14 February 2006 at 8:33pm |
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gm swing ball
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snell77
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Posted: 18 February 2006 at 2:15pm |
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I had one of them, it was great until my friend hit someones window with it so we ran and never retrieved the ball
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crownmethod
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Joined: 25 January 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 2938 |
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Posted: 19 February 2006 at 6:45am |
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A very soft tennis ball
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snell77
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Posted: 19 February 2006 at 4:53pm |
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Thats crap. A hard tennis ball would be better id imagine...
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Rambo_123UK
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Joined: 11 March 2006 Location: Great Britain Posts: 115 |
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Posted: 12 March 2006 at 10:25pm |
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Tennis balls are useless. I grew up playing tennis ball cricket over a 17 yard pitch, meaning that the first time I played with a real cricket ball, at school, aged about 13, I was entirely unprepared for the speed of the ball. You can't learn to bowl with a tennis ball because it's too light and doesn't carry properly over the distance of 20+ yards and takes spin far too well, meaning the bowler is unprepared for the size of the extra tweak needed to get a real cricket ball to grip and turn. I would urge anyone playing in the back yard with their own kids to use something heavier and harder than a tennis ball as soon as the kids are old enough unless you are playing for nothing but pure fun.
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I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling!
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crownmethod
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 12:31am |
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U have to play with a tennis ball for back yard cricket, not a cricket ball. With a cricket ball u can easily break a window.
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Rambo_123UK
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 11:24am |
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There are things like swingballs and heavy tennis balls you can get if if a cricket ball isn't practical where you live. |
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I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling!
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crownmethod
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 11:26am |
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Swingballs are too hard to find.
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Rambo_123UK
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 11:49am |
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Fair enough. My local sports shop stocks them and you can order them from plenty of online stores.
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I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling!
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crownmethod
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 12:38pm |
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How much do they cost?
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warnester
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 4:23pm |
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argos have them for flips sake
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crownmethod
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Posted: 13 March 2006 at 11:55pm |
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That sentence doesn't make any sense to me. |
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Rambo_123UK
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Posted: 14 March 2006 at 9:27am |
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I guess there's no such thing as Argos stores in Oz. I wouldn't know the AUS $ price, but they're cheap enough - a swing king was under a fiver last time I looked.
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I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling!
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warnester
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Posted: 14 March 2006 at 5:44pm |
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well they are a fiver now
i got 2 for a tennor
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Hugo
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Posted: 14 March 2006 at 9:40pm |
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for pure fun u cnt beat a tennis ball some stumps 15yrds pitch made of concrete or wood ie. decking and a couple of old tables or old pieces of boarding behind the stumps as slips and a keeper. 1 hand 1 bounce, 3 misses/leaves and your out. bowl as fast as you like if you want makes da game alot more fun!!!
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dips_december
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Posted: 16 May 2006 at 5:55am |
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a stumper works for me it has a good seam as well
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quicky
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Posted: 16 May 2006 at 6:42pm |
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Hugo
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Posted: 16 May 2006 at 7:05pm |
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the trouble is that incrediballs can hurt if u get hit in the shin by one when the bowler is bowling full pace
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shan
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Posted: 17 May 2006 at 11:35am |
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Swing balls are great to play in the back yard. Tennis ball really destroys your game, so never go near to this thing if you really want to be a cricketer.
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"Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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MP12
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Joined: 24 April 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 4221 |
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Posted: 18 May 2006 at 5:34am |
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I tried chucking a stress ball around and it swings rather well!
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crownmethod
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Posted: 18 May 2006 at 8:43am |
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You have made my life worse. |
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shan
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Posted: 18 May 2006 at 9:04am |
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Actually I want to see you on Aussies side.
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"Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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