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How did you get playing? I used to play as a kid but our cricket club shut, I'd like to give it a try again. I don't know how crap I am though  8)

i was playing in my back garden and my uncle thought i was good (he use to play in the same somerset team as ian botham when he was younger) then i went along to Calne cricket club and joined. that was when i was about 13. in 4 months i was in the wiltshire sqaud, which was nice  8)

just go to your local clubs net sessions...

I played on Sunday....and should be the next one.

  I've a mate who's skipper and I make up the numbers if needed and available...spent most of Sunday in the pavilion watching the Test though, as we batted first and I wasn't required, which suited me just fine.

Bishops Cannings Cricket Club formed in 1989 and my dad was one of the founding blokes

I'd always go and watch him, then once i could walk joined the new youth setup, progressed from the u7's right up until the u16's and senior side

My Dad was a regular for the local side, i got involved after gaining interest watching England on the telly. Still fairly useless, i probably don't play regularly enough to get any good at either discipline, but i am an excellent fielder 8)

Who do you play for village?

There's gotta be loads of clubs around your way SY......probably full of middle class tossers mind....I recall some years back playing at Williamstrip, which was this huge house up near Coln St Aldwyns in Glos.

 Had a cricket pitch in the grounds....its now owned by Sir Tim Rice...which is probably why he bought it....that'd be a good side to involved  with.

Calne is an ideal place to play at, not too competitive, its all good fun.

Goatacre want me to join them, but they all seem so serious over there, all well and good, but thats because goatacre have such a good history behind them.

Here's some valid comments on why Sonic has got a bit more interested in cricket at the mo, methinks...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/4153306.stm

I really want to play somewhere I can find out if I'm still any good because it might turn out I'm rubbish. Can I just walk up to a club and say I'd like to play?

of course you can! just find out when practice is. we get new members all the time.

Marcham 2nd's

cool, put in a good word for me Village  :soapy tit wank:

I will, but they will be keeping you well away from the scorebook :soapy tit wank:

I still think we should have a Forum cricket team, especially now we know Village can field.....that way SY you could showcase your talents in a deferred success environment.

that would be interesting. i volunteer to open the bowling (left arm over) can generate abit of swing sometimes...and bat 11.  8)

I played for them 2 games last season and they said that if I wasn't going to take it seriously then I was not suited to their team. Considering I took 5 wickets and scored 60 odd runs in the 2 games I thought they were a bit stupid.

seriously? i was there last season. i assume your on about calne? what team you play in?

The people who ran Calne Cricket club ova the past two years were wankers by far. It was all about mates.

it is abit of a joke sometimes at calne, its ran very weirdly and not very well.

i remember last season struggling to get a game, was all aload of rubbish! gave them a chance, they heard i was moving so i was put in the 1sts a few weeks ago and opened the bowling. wondering if it will last though!

 I did a post about this start of the cricket season...guess you were thinking of exams then....

 
   
A forum cricket team has to be a better idea.....Boeta can be captain, Johno can chuck pies, DMR is a useful all rounder and R4E can do the fielding.

Has the advantage of being a long game given ample opportunity for consumption of substances in interesting forgotten corners of Wiltshire.

Bird can do the teas :wink:

SY could umpire although standing for a couple of hours at a time may be problematic.

Dazzza I'd see as the fella who turns up at the pub post match with a couple of fitties, just to show a bit of willing and would turn out if completely necessary.

OF has to be useful as an ex public schoolboy.....can purvey googly and Chinaman being left handed but doesn't go on about it.

Yeovil I see as scorer......

Asher certainly wont be involved and can't see Dex on a cricket pitch....Marie I suspect is very good, and could if persuaded keep wicket and bat at 8.

Whits.....would act as fixture secretary and treasurer turning out reluctantly......Magic Roundabout will sign up for the tour to Amsterdam, as its a favourite destination for club sides.

Ralphy and Sadie will find a quiet corner to watch and roll about in the grass.

Simon Pieman wont be around as its in the hols.

Jan Aage.....may be a player but wont admit to it as cricket is an English game.

Blinkpip will bat three, and shock everyone with his mature cover drive.

Piemonte....will expect to bowl first change but throw a wobbler when Boeta decides the pitch is taking spin and brings on OF.

Ben Wah Balls will just wonder why Kingy hasn't been picked, but take a fifer and score 50.

OJ will be unavailable due to a near death experience brought on by septicemia through an infected toe.

OST will be OST.

Spacey having turned out for Ciren will prove to be a hostile pace bowler, if a little erratic....Mrs Spacey will have to do teas as Bird will be behind the pavilion with Blackcurrant neglecting her responsibilities

  Kinky Tom will provide Caribbean atmosphere.

  STFC Village will field.  

   Nils will do iimpersonations of Ole Mortensen..bowling at Queen's Park Chesterfield

   Obviously, SY will now want to play

:soapy tit wank: nicely done.

I'm in Reg, where shall i field? In the slips, gully perhaps? I'll be silly mid-off when OF bowls a few googlies.

I'm good at appealing for anything as well.....HHHHHOOOOOOOWWWWWAAAAAAZZZZZZZAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!! :D

if you can run and throw, then it has to be the outfield as there may be a bit of tap happening.

How did you know that was my fav shot. Like Jonho I am also a left arm fast bowler ( and can bowl left arm Chinamen, how ever it's spelt).
Bat 3 would suit me fine.  8)

im good down at fine leg.... :)

Surley Birdy will get done for ball tampering?

would work in our favour!  :)

Deep extra cover it is then 8)

who has the ability of fielding at point? who is the next jonty rhodes? i reckon reg would have a safe pair of hands.

walrus and mex in slip, kinky tom as wicketkeeper.

 I think the South Coast Reds are sufficiently numerous to get up a side to play against.........

  Third man for me now Johno  :(

nah, actually you go in slip and let walrus go down to third man to impress the crowd with his nice hair...  :soapy tit wank: also, you have the experience required to rally the troops, and make any suggestions to captain boeta at mid off...

i keep wicket, i'm an all rounder all right, just not a bowling one

Nah....I used to field slip and you've got to spend your time watching nothing but the edge of the bat each ball.....I'll do third man and impress the crowd with my nice hair.

reg..you have to draw up a batting order.  :soapy tit wank: would be interesting!

dave, who is it you play for? whats your batting figures been like this season?

  Thats sorted though I suspect Marie may be better than you, she's not around much these days so probably wouldn't be available.

playing for spye park on saturdays mate- i've plyed my trade in divisons one and eight this season

league average is around 30, should have been higher but for a run of 3, 0 and 0 earlier last month  :x

scored 60no out of 103 all out last weekend  8)

6 stumpings too  8)

nice, i play for calne 1sts sometimes, same league as spye park. the tree though on the pitch is annoying! and the 3,0,0 sounds like my batting figues, but more than just two 0's.

:grin: that tree is most useful when it's pissing it down

cracking place to play is calne, the only downside being the fact that the pitch is seperated from the pavilion by about 50 yards of tarmac if I remember? Cleaned up most of my studs anyway.

i'll always remember hitting courtney earl for 3 sixes off the last 3 balls of our u16 game a couple of years ago

thankyou, even though i was playing in that game, im thankful. he truly is a big headed knob.

Yeh, there is the tarmac between the grass and the rec club. the pitch in general isn't really that great and you cvan never tell what is going to happen on that square. consideing its in the middle of a public park, it gets walked across all the time.

hehe, after my resounding 3 at the weekend, i feel my time will be spent mostly in the Pavillion, or perfecting my leg spin...

does 'chalky' downham still play for your 1sts?

that bloke can bat

yeh, chris downham. he opens the bowling and bats number 4. good laugh, and a good cricketer.

i'm suprised he opens the bowling, tbh he never struck me as anything other than an up and down seamer. tidy enough i suppose.

he has taken enough wickets recently. he always seems to break the opening partnership in his 2nd/3rd over. where as im at the other end just keeping runs down, but never getting a wicket!

fair play to you then, he wouldn't get half the wickets if there wasn't any control from the other end

i haven't faced a decent left armer for a while, we played lechlade a while ago and they had one just bowled low full tosses

i demand a net session with you johno  :D

Is this because I'm a pisshead or a fat bastard?  :?

I found spye park's website and dave is mentioned on there.

Possible TEFCCC line-up.....

Boeta (Cpt)
Ben Wah Balls
Dave_m_russell
SonicYouth
Village
Reeves4England
BlinkPip
Oxford Fan
Piemonte
Spacey
Johno

Reg is club captain/12th man :D

anytime....be happy to! get a forum net practice going...:soapy tit wank:

R4E at 6, he might have a nose bleed up there. I think me and spacey could make a good 10th wicket partnership, when i say good, i mean in comparision with harmy and jones so about 20.  8)

This was the order I drew up last night, but didn't get round to posting

   Not too dissimilar to Village's, but I've got Dex in for Piemonte....he semed hurt to be left out first time round and I think a bit of Caribbean flavour besides KT's  :doobie: is good in any side.

  1 Boeta
  2 Dex
  3 Blinkpip
  4 Village
  5  DMR
  6  BWB
  7  SY
  8  R4E
  9  OF
 10  Spacey
 11  Johno

 As you're now in the side...its no longer a problem.

How exciting :P

 I've not played cricket in years, I'm probably still brilliant at it though.

 If dave's behind the stumps, I'll just aim for his head.

Aim for his helmet.

Overlooked again... the story of my sporting life...  :x

  Not so......if you read my original piece you'll observe that your physical skills are fully occupied elsewhere.

im liking my 11 position in both line ups.  8)

I fucking hate that kid. His head is so big that he was sitting next to everybody at school.
Fair play DMR

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If you havent played cricket in ages, I suggest you work your way in slowly. I played it a fair bit in my younger years, I was never into it by my mate was. At one point I was a handy bowler, we had a muck around a few weeks ago and my arm/shoulder was so sore after about an over because I hadnt bowled for so long

Organise us a fixture Reg  :beers:

Haha.

I used to watch my Dad play and when I got to about 12 or 13 I was asked to play whenever they were short.
Then I started going to nets and played more regularly and got better!!!

Johno. Okay we take it kinda seriously but we all accept its not the be all and end all. Its a good laugh and a great club to play for! Why do you think half our players live in CALNE?! Because its a good atmosphere. And we are going up! :wink:

i'll have you know i used to open the batting for my school. played a fair bit this summer with my mates, and have seemed to have lost the ability to play off the front foot while my square cuts and pulls have magically blossomed.

practiced the old bowling a bit too. very erratic but i just tell em its me playing mind tricks because ill invariably get one beauty out of 300 balls. not part of the bowling attack but i could possibly add a collingwoodesque change with a Bowled e-tow caught village at deep mid wicket

I opened the bowling for my year. And unlike Johno can bowl from the bottom end!

I would bat number 10, ahead of the aboved mentioned.

:grin:

yeh..well, can't get in goatacre 3rds.  :wink: only messing around (they seem like idiots if they don't pick you the way there going) you were an bootom end specialist, can't complain you got wickets!

Goatacre ain't going anywhere by the way, they'll probably blow it.  :soapy tit wank: