Story Cricket Apprentice

THE VERDICT
Now I've made my decision. Here's the people I want here tomorrow:

MC Donald: call yourself a coach in the mould of Allan Donald? You need to start taking this seriously.

Griffo: your passage was good but you're a little hard to motivate.

See you both tomorrow.

no im talking about this
 
Ok, here goes.

Your weight is on the front foot, this is something you should not do against a decidedly quick bowler since it will mean that you will have to jump backwards against a quick bouncer. This will leave you in no control of your body movements, leading to a possible gloving of the ball. The solution would be to have a trigger movement back and across towards off stump so that your weight is evenly poised to play any shot or indeed duck the ball.

You have a significant amount of indecision in your shot also. Before you go out to bat, you need to make a decision about whether you will be a hooker or a ducker, neither is particularly better than the other, but you must never try and fend away a bouncer lest you become every fast bowler's bunny. However, if the ball rises more than expected while you are playing a back foot block, you should immediately drop your hands. Not only is this the safest thing to do, but it also conserves your wicket best.

One last thing, never ever, have both feet off the ground while playing a shot, it compromises the power of the shot and also makes you a bigger target to hit by bouncers!
 
Back to the pavilion for the crucial decision

After a tense twelve hours, Griffo and MC Donald go back to the pavilion to face the music from Sir Ian Botham. Beefy had called the pair back in front of him after rating their passages the bottom two for the first task.

Sir Ian Botham: "Welcome back to the pavilion. You were the bottom tour out of all the entries, MC Donald and Griffo. There was a very high standard, but someone needs to be out today,"

Sir Ian makes the two contestants wait that little bit longer to find out their fate.

SIB: "First of all, though, I need to make a decision on all the contestants that didn't meet the deadline. Manee was the only contestant to meet my extended deadline - his passage was very good. He mentioned technique a lot and made a lot of valid points. That would be a 8/10. It would have been higher if he had met the original deadline and mentioned match situation and pitch conditions,"

The first ousting out of the series is delivered as Bugsy Malone and Ross Mathers are given the finger:

SIB: "Bugsy Malone and Ross Mathers didn't meet the deadlines. I haven't heard anything of them since I revealed the first task. I don't need people like that at my club - Bugsy, Ross... YOU'RE OUT!"

The serious business is back as attentions return to Griffo and MC Donald.

SIB: "Now, back to you two. Griffo... you put up a bit of a moan about the amount of work you had to do in this task. The winner of this show will have to do a hell of a lot more work that that. I don't need slackers. Teaching Americans to play cricket is a big job and it needs dedication,"

SIB: "MC Donald... you likened yourself to Allan Donald. The Allan Donald I know would die for South African cricket. You don't strike me as that sort of person. Your passage was quite clearly a joke... did you really think something like that would improve a batsman's technique? It mentions nothing I asked for, and I'm astounded I gave you 2/10,"

SIB: "I've made my decision. I must admit, it wasn't a particularly difficult one. Griffo, you eventually put some effort into your passage and it ended up being very good. MC Donald, you were a total shambles. You put no effort in at all and you're not the sort of person I'm looking for, definetely not - MC Donald, YOU'RE OUT!"

MC Donald walks out of the pavilion with a smirk on his face, becoming the first contestant to be evicted from the series. Griffo survives for another task.

At the beginning of episode one, there were 14 conestants. Now - there are 11.

Sir Ian's search for his coaching apprentice continues.
 
lol very good stuff... im glad i gave you alot of material to work with ahah
 
yeh whatever i aint even bovvered so you can go finger your mum sir fatty
 
lets have the next task now! im into this now i love the pres
 
Ha ha. Cya MC Donald. :p
I reckon this should actually be a show. Of course, no one would watch it. But it would be a hit overseas!
 

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