Your Cricket Existence of Cricket in your Family..

[Manly]

Drawing a blank on the 'two more' rule?

If I can find it, I'll post a picture of the story.

 

[tassietiger]

I was just suggesting that this hattrick had taken place in the backyard. The 'two more' rule is the classic backyard cricket rule, nobody has to stop bowling until someone has told them to have their last two.

 

[Manly]

Oh OK, never played BYCricket you see...

 

[Slowcoach]

My mum was a good bowler, I taught her how to bowl leg spin, offspin, and the wrongun because I told her she was a slow bowler so she better learn how to spin it. She ended up winning female cricketer of the year in a local mixed competition at the age of 50.

My oldest sister is a wild fast bowler, she once hit the top of a tree that was 5 metres outside leg stump with a full toss that was about 10 metres high.

I've seen my dad bowl one ball, he came outside and asked to have a bowl, then unleashed one just like Warne's ball of the century, a leg spinner that drifted in towards leg stump, then spun back to hit the top of off to bowl out my little brother. My dad asked me what type of ball it was, I said "leg spin", he said "oh, was that what it was?", then he walked back inside laughing.

During that same game with my dad my youngest sister and one of my brothers were arguing because they both wanted to field in the same spot, so she punched him and he went away crying. Then he came back giggling, sneaked up behind her, and hit her with a shovel.

 

[Kev]

During that same game with my dad my youngest sister and one of my brothers were arguing because they both wanted to field in the same spot, so she punched him and he went away crying. Then he came back giggling, sneaked up behind her, and hit her with a shovel.

I hope you live in a cartoon, otherwise I might have to call the police!

 

[Left_Hander]

My family have been watching cricket for as long as I can remember, but the thread is talking about the existence of cricket. We only believed it was real a couple of years ago, when one of my uncles came over and told me that it did, in fact, exist. Since then, cricket has existed in our family. Before we just thought it was some sort of myth like santa, the tooth fairy and cheap petrol.

Nice story. But petrol in Sydney now is under a dollar!

 

[Jakester1288]

My Dad and his brothers played and watched it when they were a kid, that is about as far as I know it goes. There dad likes it a bit, but that's it.

 

[Griffo]

My dad and uncle both played but my dad had to stop for work and my uncle stopped to commit to playing rugby league (his career was cut short with an injury)

My uncle used to hold the australian record for the fastest speed in throwing a cricket ball, clocked at something amazing... i cant remember and was also banned from an indoor cricket centre because he broke too many stumps and they couldnt afford to replace them

In outdoor he bowled 145-150 and batted at 3 but as i said he was a much better rugby league player than cricketer which syas ALOT!

 

[tassietiger]

Nice story. But petrol in Sydney now is under a dollar!

Petrol has been doing quite well lately. Tassie usually is about 15c more than the mainland, so we haven't broken the magical dollar yet. Still don't think it'll last though.

 

[rvdthunder]

Petrol has been doing quite well lately. Tassie usually is about 15c more than the mainland, so we haven't broken the magical dollar yet. Still don't think it'll last though.

yeah we have you just have to look in the right places, its been as low as 95c/L in some places

 

[Slowcoach]

Speaking of petrol...we used to douse our backyard pitch in petrol and then set fire to it to create a raging bunsen for the spinners.

 

[tassietiger]

yeah we have you just have to look in the right places, its been as low as 95c/L in some places

I know I'm taking it off track but where is this happening? I've been in Hobart and now am in Launceston and I haven't seen a petrol station getting near that, and as they are the two bigger places in Tassie, I'd imagine they should have the lowest prices.

 

[rvdthunder]

I know I'm taking it off track but where is this happening? I've been in Hobart and now am in Launceston and I haven't seen a petrol station getting near that, and as they are the two bigger places in Tassie, I'd imagine they should have the lowest prices.

at sorell today it was 93.9c/L some of the outer suburbs have the cheapest petrol, even howrah sometimes and sandy bay

 

[blazerix]

During that same game with my dad my youngest sister and one of my brothers were arguing because they both wanted to field in the same spot, so she punched him and he went away crying. Then he came back giggling, sneaked up behind her, and hit her with a shovel.

are you retarded?