Back Yard Cricket

mazzybabe.uk, you use a cricket ball for back yard cricket?!

The old days which I never witnessed!

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.

You'll see me playing for Australia soon. 

Originally posted by shan 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.

You have made my life worse.

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.

incrediball

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!!!

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.

argos have them for flips sake

Fair enough. My local sports shop stocks them and you can order them from plenty of online stores.

There are things like swingballs and heavy tennis balls you can get if if a cricket ball isn't practical where you live.

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.

A very soft tennis ball

gm swing ball