April 13, 2009
Yesterday I had a net session for Martlesham CC, invited along by one of my mates, who described it as "real village cricket, we play for a laugh". I was pretty stoked to be invited because I have never played Club cricket.
The net started well, with my old maths teacher (from Year 6) going into bat first, I bowled solidly, picking up on his leg-stump weakness quickly, getting a fair few to fizz past the outside edge.
Next into bat was some chap I haven't ever seen before, and who looks likely to be the opener this season, so I heard. He was quite baseball-y, with a high pick-up, which got higher on release. This guy began to get very frustrated with himself, and I bowled him Leg, Off, Middle three balls running.
Craig (the inviter) was next into bat, and we joked about before he went in, me saying how I was gonna bowl him, hit him with the quicker-ball bouncer, and him saying he was gonna send me on a nice run to fetch the ball...
Unfortunately he was the victor, first ball he got underneath me and absolutely SMASHED me straight for what could only be described as a twelve. Craig is 23 and boy is he strong! I laughed it off, and by the time I trudged back to bowl again, about 10 minutes had passed, and I only had time to bowl another 5 at him. The last ball was creamed yet again. I swore at him and trudged off again. Give him his due, Craig built me up quite horrendously, saying "Ben's in next, and he hits it way harder than me!"... Couldn't believe it!
Then it was my turn to bat, the captain had finished cutting the strip, and now had someone on the roller going up and down. He bowled the first ball at me, and I duly dispatched him about 100metres across the field. I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit embarassed, but as it turned out, he was 'quietly impressed' with me. At this point I would like to say a large crowd gathered, this was pure coincedence, and not because of how I batted, but I could hear murmurs of approval from some of the blokes standing there after a particularly nice cover drive. There were some girls there too, but I can't pass comment, given I am with partner
Finally, it was off to the Douglas Bader pub, where I was kindly bought a pint, and run through the fine system, where you are charged for drops, ducks etc.
I have a Twenty20 season opener next Sunday, that should be fun.
Then, as is the norm, I had an Indoor game Sunday night, against an average/poor team at 8pm. They had persuaded my Dad to play for them, so that was fun.
I was WK for 13 of the overs, it was a lot of fun, and bowling I had so many drops off my 2 overs it was ridiculous.
Then into bat where I lost 5 runs first ball, bowled by my banana-skin bowler, who has now bowled me 3 times in two games.
Yesterday I had a net session for Martlesham CC, invited along by one of my mates, who described it as "real village cricket, we play for a laugh". I was pretty stoked to be invited because I have never played Club cricket.
The net started well, with my old maths teacher (from Year 6) going into bat first, I bowled solidly, picking up on his leg-stump weakness quickly, getting a fair few to fizz past the outside edge.
Next into bat was some chap I haven't ever seen before, and who looks likely to be the opener this season, so I heard. He was quite baseball-y, with a high pick-up, which got higher on release. This guy began to get very frustrated with himself, and I bowled him Leg, Off, Middle three balls running.
Craig (the inviter) was next into bat, and we joked about before he went in, me saying how I was gonna bowl him, hit him with the quicker-ball bouncer, and him saying he was gonna send me on a nice run to fetch the ball...
Unfortunately he was the victor, first ball he got underneath me and absolutely SMASHED me straight for what could only be described as a twelve. Craig is 23 and boy is he strong! I laughed it off, and by the time I trudged back to bowl again, about 10 minutes had passed, and I only had time to bowl another 5 at him. The last ball was creamed yet again. I swore at him and trudged off again. Give him his due, Craig built me up quite horrendously, saying "Ben's in next, and he hits it way harder than me!"... Couldn't believe it!
Then it was my turn to bat, the captain had finished cutting the strip, and now had someone on the roller going up and down. He bowled the first ball at me, and I duly dispatched him about 100metres across the field. I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit embarassed, but as it turned out, he was 'quietly impressed' with me. At this point I would like to say a large crowd gathered, this was pure coincedence, and not because of how I batted, but I could hear murmurs of approval from some of the blokes standing there after a particularly nice cover drive. There were some girls there too, but I can't pass comment, given I am with partner
Finally, it was off to the Douglas Bader pub, where I was kindly bought a pint, and run through the fine system, where you are charged for drops, ducks etc.
I have a Twenty20 season opener next Sunday, that should be fun.
Then, as is the norm, I had an Indoor game Sunday night, against an average/poor team at 8pm. They had persuaded my Dad to play for them, so that was fun.
I was WK for 13 of the overs, it was a lot of fun, and bowling I had so many drops off my 2 overs it was ridiculous.
Then into bat where I lost 5 runs first ball, bowled by my banana-skin bowler, who has now bowled me 3 times in two games.
and my bowling figures were terrible, went for about 35-40 in my 3 overs.
Worked though I guess haha.
