Back Yard Cricket
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Topic: Back Yard Cricket
Posted By: Black_cap_95
Subject: Back Yard Cricket
Date Posted: 04 February 2006 at 9:55am
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What is the best type of backyard cricket ball in your opinion ------------- go hard or go home |
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Posted By: Charlie
Date Posted: 04 February 2006 at 10:08am
| tennis ball |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 04 February 2006 at 11:30am
| Get one of those "swingking" type balls as they are a bit heavier and you can practice against a swinging ball etc |
Posted By: MiNiWaRnEy
Date Posted: 04 February 2006 at 11:30am
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The Thommo Swing King. ------------- |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 05 February 2006 at 8:14am
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A tennis ball is just fine. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: Rafay
Date Posted: 05 February 2006 at 9:41pm
| 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 |
Posted By: minimurali
Date 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 ------------- 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. |
Posted By: snell77
Date Posted: 14 February 2006 at 6:12pm
| Try a windball... |
Posted By: warnester
Date Posted: 14 February 2006 at 8:33pm
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gm swing ball ------------- |
Posted By: snell77
Date Posted: 18 February 2006 at 2:15pm
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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Posted By: crownmethod
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 6:45am
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A very soft tennis ball ------------- |
Posted By: snell77
Date Posted: 19 February 2006 at 4:53pm
| Thats crap. A hard tennis ball would be better id imagine... |
Posted By: Rambo_123UK
Date 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. ------------- I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling! |
Posted By: crownmethod
Date 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. ------------- |
Posted By: Rambo_123UK
Date 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. ------------- I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling! |
Posted By: crownmethod
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 11:26am
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Swingballs are too hard to find. ------------- |
Posted By: Rambo_123UK
Date 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. ------------- I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling! |
Posted By: crownmethod
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 12:38pm
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How much do they cost? ------------- |
Posted By: warnester
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 4:23pm
| argos have them for flips sake |
Posted By: crownmethod
Date Posted: 13 March 2006 at 11:55pm
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That sentence doesn't make any sense to me. ------------- |
Posted By: Rambo_123UK
Date 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. ------------- I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling! |
Posted By: warnester
Date 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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Posted By: Hugo
Date 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!!! |
Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 16 May 2006 at 5:55am
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a stumper works for me it has a good seam as well ------------- |
Posted By: quicky
Date Posted: 16 May 2006 at 6:42pm
| incrediball |
Posted By: Hugo
Date Posted: 16 May 2006 at 7:05pm
| the trouble is that incrediballs can hurt if u get hit in the shin by one when the bowler is bowling full pace |
Posted By: shan
Date 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. ------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 18 May 2006 at 5:34am
| I tried chucking a stress ball around and it swings rather well! |
Posted By: crownmethod
Date Posted: 18 May 2006 at 8:43am
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You have made my life worse. ------------- |
Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 18 May 2006 at 9:04am
Actually I want to see you on Aussies side.  ------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: RightHandBat
Date Posted: 18 May 2006 at 9:49am
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You'll see me playing for Australia soon.
------------- "His classical hits down the ground, met with a checked drive, were Tendulkar at his best. It was though he had a new lease of life." - Sachin Tendulkar's return to cricket with a 91-Ball century. |
Posted By: murali22
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 10:53pm
| the best ball i hav used for back garden cricket is the inside of an incrediball. its this dense foam that bounces a lot. if you make a seam on it using electric insulating tape then it swings well and when you bowl spin you get a lot of drift. |
Posted By: Fergie
Date Posted: 27 May 2006 at 7:25pm
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We use a Readers windball, only cost 3pounds. It's fantastic for the faster of us there is some swing and for my SLA I get some good bounce and turn. bare in mind only one of us even plays circket for uni, the ball seems to make rubbish bowlers like us a bit more dangrous wich makes for more fun and people get out more then when we used a tennis ball, nufin more boring for backyard criket than when someone wont get out. This is on grass though, not tarmak. |
Posted By: Top Cat
Date Posted: 27 May 2006 at 8:56pm
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Back yard cricket is brilliant,just use anything to bowl and bat and use milk crates for stumps,just like the good old days! ------------- |
Posted By: Top Cat
Date Posted: 27 May 2006 at 8:56pm
The old days which I never witnessed! ------------- |
Posted By: mazzybabe.uk
Date Posted: 30 May 2006 at 11:36am
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my tip a new hard bouncy ball or a ball left in the rain and because of that theres water in the ball its tops like to say I thought of it myself but it came about like most inventions by mistakes. or if you have deep pockets you could buy one of those orange training balls ------------- The First Century I ever saw was Heschelle Gibbs' 228 against Pakistan |
Posted By: Hugo
Date Posted: 01 June 2006 at 10:01am
| mazzybabe.uk, you use a cricket ball for back yard cricket?! |
Posted By: Ck_spin
Date Posted: 03 June 2006 at 5:05pm
| You could get one of those Upfront Cricket tennis ball. They spin and bounce like a real cricket ball. |