How's Your Season Going? CW Cricket Diary

Had another 2020 game this weekend and we batted first and made about 220.  I opened again and made 56, carving away 2 decent sixes with some fours now and again.  My form seems to be diminishing slighty everygame with the bat but the good thing is, my bowling is picking up some good form.  Bowled 4 overs 3/18.  Only bowled 2 bad deliveries in that spell.  I yorked out my first victim, had the second bowled behind his legs and the 3rd was a tailender, got stumped going for a massive heave, to be honest, i don't know where he had intended to heave it but the flight and dip was to good and his backfoot came out the crease.

Congratulations on you inpending debut Slogger. Always a risk being a keeper because there's only one spot in the side for ya!! Well done on making it, hopefully you'll become a permanent fixture in that side.

Congrats Slogger!  Make sure to keep on being determined, that will see you through. 

Start using a new bat right away - bad move mate.  Try and get some knocking up in the nets to see how it works first then you'll know if it needs extra knocking in or is ready to go.

Had another game for my school 2nd XI yesterday. We were playing a school that we expected to beat fairly easily (probably not a good thing to expect). We bowled first after winning the toss and soon had them 80-8, but their number 9 got 63* and they made 159 all out in 35 overs. We had 35 overs to chase it down and my opening partner went to a dubious umpiring decision for 1 in the third over. Me and our teams number 3 went slowly and tried to see off the new ball which was darting around everywhere. They really had us in trouble with the new ball, but then they suddenly brought a spinner on and spread the whole field, we knocked him around for a while which took the pressure off before the number 3 hit a ball straight to point getting 21. Our number 4 came and went for 25 in a very quick innings which lifted our run rate above theirs for the first time. I was seeing it pretty well by now and had just passed 50, so I tried to take on their opener who they had just brought back in, I hit one for 2 back over his head, but then he cramped me for room and I skied the next one. In hindsight I should've flicked it off my legs, but I fell for 53 with the score on 107. Eventually we chased it down for the loss of 6 wickets with 1 over to spare, so it was a good tight win in a game we should've won with ease.

Yeah I kept wicket in the game, keeping was really good for the first 20 overs, but then it fell away a bit, along with the rest of the teams performances which let them back in the game. I took a few great ones standing up though, including catching a bottom about an inch off the floor and taking 2 consecutive wides standing up off our spinner, one of them was so wide I actually ended up diving as well. Overall it was an improvement on Wednesday but there's definitely some room for improvement especially late on in the innings when I tend to loose concentration a bit.

I also read the match report for the Wednesday game and apparently my team-mates thought I did well standing up because the pitch was so terrible. I also found out that the opposition keeper had to stand back to one of their spinners so the wicket was tricky which makes me fell better.

Yeah definitely, it's vital you contribute to the batting as a keeper so the team bats deeper and/or you can play more bowlers. I think I just about average 40 for my school this season, but only 4.5 for my clubs junior team so I need to improve that a bit (although they are T20 games so it's always a bit of a lottery)

I'm not that worried, I just try to bat for as long as possible so I don't have to sit at the side feeling annoyed at how I got out. I also try to bat for the team and I always get annoyed if I make 20-30 then throw it away because it doesn't really help the team at all.  I didn't realize you were a late developer SW, I always seem to remember you posting on here and doing well.

Also I'm 16 now SW not 15.


Edited by slogger72N/O - 15 June 2009 at 3:30pm

Originally posted by spin wizard You're still pretty young mate so don't fuss up to much about those stats. I remember when I was about 15, man, I couldn't even pass 3 runs.  My bowling had potential but I never really showed it until I passed 16 years.

I'm 14 and I'm facing a similar problem,except my bowling is coming along well.
My batting is struggling,I can have a really good day with the bat and then get a golden pair!

There's too much focus on playing leg side, because that's where we feel we have more power... but playing leg side means we can get hit by the ball. Play straight kids and be confident and watch the ball. Just got to keep things simple really.

Yeah, playing leg side can be very effective as most teams don't put that many fielders there. Most of the teams I play against put a ring of 4 or 5 fielders on the offside, but only put 2 or 3 on the leg side, so once you get hold of a pull or a leg glance it's four runs every time.

My bat finally arrived today (kookaburra ice sub zero), just had an hour knocking it in, I may leave using it until Saturday because I'm only playing in T20's from Tuesday to Thursday anyway so I won't need it that much.


Edited by slogger72N/O - 16 June 2009 at 3:46pm

Had an U17 T20 game last night. We won the toss and batted, we managed to reach 90-1, before our opener ran our captain out and the innings collapsed to 126 all out. I came in at 6 and managed 15 which was the third highest score of a awful innings, before smashing one straight out of the middle into the bowlers hands. I was trying to hit over long on for 6, but I just couldn't get the elevation (we were already 8 down by this point, so it was slog time). We just managed to defend it, running out winners by about 10 runs. It should've been a lot easier, but the bowling was inaccurate and also too short. I got a stumping and kept fairly well, but did concede 2 byes which is very annoying. Today it's the adult T20.

So now we have blind scorers as well and not just blind cricketers.

Had so many games of cricket recently I can't possibly talk about all of them. I've been doing terribly with the bat, but great with the gloves. Then i had  a game on Sunday where I wasn't keeping, I had a horrible feeling I would fail again and then have nothing to do, but I somehow stuck in there and ground out 55 runs in about 25 overs, I hardly timed anything all innings and didn't hit a single drive, I just waited on the back foot and cut or pulled. Possibly the worst 50 I've ever made. I had a chance to convert it into a ton, but I was tired after playing cricket all week and I was starting to dehydrate even though we had regular drinks (it was about 32 degrees). In the end I played a tired slog and got bowled. We lost the game by miles in the end.

You should feel lucky they are still playing you mate.