Fignon's Ponytail
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He is helping out with some coaching at BACA when they ask / need him . Most of the time he is coaching the Pathway kids up at Blackstone though.
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[Cricket] The Village / Amateur CRICKET Thread- 2025 Edition
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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
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My oldest boy is hoping to go to BACA 6th form next September to study Sports Sciene and take part in their cricket program. He’s doing his Y10 work experience at Skillz Cricket in Hailsham in a couple of months time.
Seems like this facility at Brighton Uni would make it the ideal next step for him after 6th form.
Seems like this facility at Brighton Uni would make it the ideal next step for him after 6th form.
- Jul 17, 2003
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Sorry you suggested Sir Rod was involved in the new Brighton University site i meant is Sir Rod still involved with the Cricket Centre at BACA?
I'm not sure I ever saw somebody successfully play a pull off the back foot the whole time I played cricket in Sussex.
Ha ... saw plenty earlier in the day. I should have known, though ... first ball I faced from that bowler kept low as well. But then had a series of fuller deliveries that bounced as expected. Just one of those to forget about.I'm not sure I ever saw somebody successfully play a pull off the back foot the whole time I played cricket in Sussex.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Oh, sorry! Yeah, as far as I know he is still fully behind whats going on at BACA.
He was talking to us last year about the partnership with Brighton Uni and it sounded great. If anyone can get it going, its him.
2 wins from 2 for the Amps.
Opposition (Totton & Eling) won the toss and chose to bat. We bowled fairly well and limited them to 216/8. I bowled 9 tidy overs straight through, with no joy again - then took the keeping pads at the drinks break as we needed the other lad to bowl. I haven’t kept for at least a decade, and it was scruffy as anything, but somehow managed to concede no byes, and execute a stumping.
We knocked them off for the loss of only 3 wickets, with 15 overs to spare. The gun managed to rack up another unbeaten ton (101), and still managed to be a dick - twice nearly running out partners, in a glaringly transparent attempt to hog all the strike so as to reach three figures before we reached the target.
Opposition (Totton & Eling) won the toss and chose to bat. We bowled fairly well and limited them to 216/8. I bowled 9 tidy overs straight through, with no joy again - then took the keeping pads at the drinks break as we needed the other lad to bowl. I haven’t kept for at least a decade, and it was scruffy as anything, but somehow managed to concede no byes, and execute a stumping.
We knocked them off for the loss of only 3 wickets, with 15 overs to spare. The gun managed to rack up another unbeaten ton (101), and still managed to be a dick - twice nearly running out partners, in a glaringly transparent attempt to hog all the strike so as to reach three figures before we reached the target.
Uckfield 1st XI carry on in 2025 where we left off in 2024 ... losing matches that we had opportunity to win (but also probably had no right being in with a chance to win!)
Ringmer 2nd's won the toss and put us in to bat first on pitch that had quite a green tinge across the top. We started reasonably, but wickets fell and we found ourselves in a bit of trouble through the middle overs with a run rate that just wasn't good enough. At the drinks break it was looking like we'd do well to put 120-130 on the board and at least have something to try to defend. Wasted my own wicket, having got in, for what the scorecard says was 2 (but should have been 3). Done in by my own head and the 'keeper deciding to stand up and forcing me to adjust my stance a 6 inches back. Short ball came in, thought flickered through my mind of "do I tuck it away for 1 or whack it?", decided to whack it, and found myself a tad late on the shot and a little too far under it. Top edge up, down, and held well. Fortunately our tail wagged and we set a target of 164.
Our bowling effort started well, with our openers generally keeping it tight across the first 10 overs or so and capturing 2 wickets. One of our openers bowled out his 9 in a single spell as he had to leave after drinks, and it showed - his control slipped a little and runs began to flow, allowing Ringmer to get ahead of the required rate. I was brought on several overs after drinks, with a first over that was just a little rusty. Two maidens followed and we started to put the brakes on. I was then switched to the other end, to allow our spinner his preferred end - and between us we gave Ringmer a big scare. Spinner got their top run scorer caught in the deep, and the next over I got their other set batsman off the final ball of a tight over. Next over, the spinner struck again before being hit for 6 and leaving the target off the final two overs was down to just 6 needed. The 6 hitter was on strike as I steamed in (ha!) ... nailed plumb LBW! Could we be in with a shout? Next ball was a shocker down leg side, just inside the wide line ... but wait ... the bails were off and stumps had been rocked ... after a moment of bewilderment, I appealed and the "Hit Wicket" dismissal was given! At this point, I was the only one on the field who realised that had completed my hat-trick.
Next batter in survived, managed to squeak a run (should have been run out, but the fielder at the stumps fumbled when just needing to break the stumps for an easy dismissal), then an attempted slower ball was just a tad too full and the batter managed to shank one off the inside toe end but evade the field to the short boundary for 4. Scores tied with 7 balls to go. Dot ball followed, and it was all down to what our spinner could do. Dot. Dot. Dropped one short to a lefty and it got spanked to the short boundary, game over.
Gotta be happy with 6-2-18-3 with my first ever hat-trick. First over of those 6 (the loosener) went for 7 from memory.
Ringmer 2nd's won the toss and put us in to bat first on pitch that had quite a green tinge across the top. We started reasonably, but wickets fell and we found ourselves in a bit of trouble through the middle overs with a run rate that just wasn't good enough. At the drinks break it was looking like we'd do well to put 120-130 on the board and at least have something to try to defend. Wasted my own wicket, having got in, for what the scorecard says was 2 (but should have been 3). Done in by my own head and the 'keeper deciding to stand up and forcing me to adjust my stance a 6 inches back. Short ball came in, thought flickered through my mind of "do I tuck it away for 1 or whack it?", decided to whack it, and found myself a tad late on the shot and a little too far under it. Top edge up, down, and held well. Fortunately our tail wagged and we set a target of 164.
Our bowling effort started well, with our openers generally keeping it tight across the first 10 overs or so and capturing 2 wickets. One of our openers bowled out his 9 in a single spell as he had to leave after drinks, and it showed - his control slipped a little and runs began to flow, allowing Ringmer to get ahead of the required rate. I was brought on several overs after drinks, with a first over that was just a little rusty. Two maidens followed and we started to put the brakes on. I was then switched to the other end, to allow our spinner his preferred end - and between us we gave Ringmer a big scare. Spinner got their top run scorer caught in the deep, and the next over I got their other set batsman off the final ball of a tight over. Next over, the spinner struck again before being hit for 6 and leaving the target off the final two overs was down to just 6 needed. The 6 hitter was on strike as I steamed in (ha!) ... nailed plumb LBW! Could we be in with a shout? Next ball was a shocker down leg side, just inside the wide line ... but wait ... the bails were off and stumps had been rocked ... after a moment of bewilderment, I appealed and the "Hit Wicket" dismissal was given! At this point, I was the only one on the field who realised that had completed my hat-trick.
Next batter in survived, managed to squeak a run (should have been run out, but the fielder at the stumps fumbled when just needing to break the stumps for an easy dismissal), then an attempted slower ball was just a tad too full and the batter managed to shank one off the inside toe end but evade the field to the short boundary for 4. Scores tied with 7 balls to go. Dot ball followed, and it was all down to what our spinner could do. Dot. Dot. Dropped one short to a lefty and it got spanked to the short boundary, game over.
Gotta be happy with 6-2-18-3 with my first ever hat-trick. First over of those 6 (the loosener) went for 7 from memory.
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Fignon's Ponytail
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Roffey were chasing Haywards Heaths 355 on Saturday....final ball came, needed a four....got two. 354.
Gutted for them after a dogged fight to get back in the game.
All the bowlers were smashed around a bit, but Frankie at least took another wicket, and scored a quick 43 with 4x4s, and 3x6s. With a broken bat
Gutted for them after a dogged fight to get back in the game.
All the bowlers were smashed around a bit, but Frankie at least took another wicket, and scored a quick 43 with 4x4s, and 3x6s. With a broken bat
ACobweb
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- Dec 27, 2022
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Unless you get bowled for a first ball duck a week later...
48 hours later, a postscript to this…
oh. My f***ing. God. My GLUTES are in agony. Sod wicket-keeping
Billy in Bristol
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Had the joy if moving a fielder from midwicket to second slip, two balls later straight to him. Smug captaincy 
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
- 12,783
Tough week for the boy after last weeks 34.
Played his first slam game on Thursday, opened on a very unpredictable pitch saw off their young opening fast bowler very well in the first over and sneaked a single. Unfortunately the spinner they opened with from the other end had one of the games of his life, he got one to pitch up unexpectedly and all my boy could do was watch as it came off the shoulder of his bat and offered up an absolute dolly to point. This spinner ended up taking 5/25 in 4 overs and we never got going. All out for 78 which they ran down for the loss of just 2 wickets.
He then played for the seconds on Saturday in a very tough afternoon, we had just 10 players in quite an inexperienced side with two other lads my boys age making their debuts. Always hard in the field when you are a man short .The other team ran up 309/3 in their 40 overs with the opener making 150. My lad did run one of them out though, and one of the two lads making their debut took one of the other wickets. Unfortunately they couldn’t get going with the bat and were all out for 108. They boy batted at five and got a 4 before falling to a straight one he just didn’t read at all.
Yesterday he had his first village cup game of the season for his Sunday side. No breeze at all made for a tough afternoon on a small pitch where you tend to either score boundaries or singles as there just isn’t the space to run 2 most of the time.
A couple of players on the opposition had played against him on Thursday so there was some friendly ribbing between them all. He opened with the club captain and made a good start getting 16 (all 4s) from about 20 balls (including an absolute peach of a cover drive I wish I’d caught on camera) before mistiming a clip over the slips which the wicket keeper did well to take above his head.
They ended up all out for 166 which we thought was a little bit too low given the quality of the opposition. That looked even more true when they raced to 60/0 off 10 overs before we made a break through and they lost both their openers and number 3 in quick succession leaving them around 90/3.
We then unleashed our previously unknown secret weapon in the lad who’d got a wicket on debut for the seconds the day before. With the last ball of his second over he got one of their players with a questionable LBW decision but the umpire who was one of their players gave it. First ball of the next over he gets someone caught out and is on for a hat trick, which the batsman defended well. He did pick up his third wicket in the next over though and suddenly we looked on for a close finish as they needed about 40 with 4 wickets remaining. My boy then took a great catch fielding at point and a couple more of their guys were bowled before we found out their last batsman was unwell due to the heat and wasn’t going to bat so we secured a win by about 30 runs.
They boy has another 3 games this week and 3 nights of training so I’m glad of a cricket free evening as he’s decided that he’s not playing age group cricket this season (we don’t have an age group team and he’d been asked to play for another club that he guested for last summer).
Played his first slam game on Thursday, opened on a very unpredictable pitch saw off their young opening fast bowler very well in the first over and sneaked a single. Unfortunately the spinner they opened with from the other end had one of the games of his life, he got one to pitch up unexpectedly and all my boy could do was watch as it came off the shoulder of his bat and offered up an absolute dolly to point. This spinner ended up taking 5/25 in 4 overs and we never got going. All out for 78 which they ran down for the loss of just 2 wickets.
He then played for the seconds on Saturday in a very tough afternoon, we had just 10 players in quite an inexperienced side with two other lads my boys age making their debuts. Always hard in the field when you are a man short .The other team ran up 309/3 in their 40 overs with the opener making 150. My lad did run one of them out though, and one of the two lads making their debut took one of the other wickets. Unfortunately they couldn’t get going with the bat and were all out for 108. They boy batted at five and got a 4 before falling to a straight one he just didn’t read at all.
Yesterday he had his first village cup game of the season for his Sunday side. No breeze at all made for a tough afternoon on a small pitch where you tend to either score boundaries or singles as there just isn’t the space to run 2 most of the time.
A couple of players on the opposition had played against him on Thursday so there was some friendly ribbing between them all. He opened with the club captain and made a good start getting 16 (all 4s) from about 20 balls (including an absolute peach of a cover drive I wish I’d caught on camera) before mistiming a clip over the slips which the wicket keeper did well to take above his head.
They ended up all out for 166 which we thought was a little bit too low given the quality of the opposition. That looked even more true when they raced to 60/0 off 10 overs before we made a break through and they lost both their openers and number 3 in quick succession leaving them around 90/3.
We then unleashed our previously unknown secret weapon in the lad who’d got a wicket on debut for the seconds the day before. With the last ball of his second over he got one of their players with a questionable LBW decision but the umpire who was one of their players gave it. First ball of the next over he gets someone caught out and is on for a hat trick, which the batsman defended well. He did pick up his third wicket in the next over though and suddenly we looked on for a close finish as they needed about 40 with 4 wickets remaining. My boy then took a great catch fielding at point and a couple more of their guys were bowled before we found out their last batsman was unwell due to the heat and wasn’t going to bat so we secured a win by about 30 runs.
They boy has another 3 games this week and 3 nights of training so I’m glad of a cricket free evening as he’s decided that he’s not playing age group cricket this season (we don’t have an age group team and he’d been asked to play for another club that he guested for last summer).
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Oh - and also, for the benefit of TEA aficionados...
Sandwiches
- coronation chicken
- egg mayonnaise and cress
- cheese and pickle
- ham and cheese
- tuna, mayo and cucumber (for the WEIRDOS)
Chicken nuggets
Home made chilli sausage rolls
Mini pizzas
Chocolate mini-rolls
Lemon cake slices
Some kind of swiss roll thing (cream and jam)
Cocktail sticks of strawberries and melon cubes
For the first home game of the season, our girl Becki, produced the goods. A very solid 8.5.
Sandwiches
- coronation chicken
- egg mayonnaise and cress
- cheese and pickle
- ham and cheese
- tuna, mayo and cucumber (for the WEIRDOS)
Chicken nuggets
Home made chilli sausage rolls
Mini pizzas
Chocolate mini-rolls
Lemon cake slices
Some kind of swiss roll thing (cream and jam)
Cocktail sticks of strawberries and melon cubes
For the first home game of the season, our girl Becki, produced the goods. A very solid 8.5.
ROSM
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I may have got the wrong end of the stick, or indeed jumping to conclusions, but I get the impression that 'the gun' may be at bit of a CJTC
Just a hunch and apologies if I'm wrong
That is almost perfect to be fair. I'd personally go cheese and onion but I appreciate this is an entirely personal choice. And I am a WEIRDO. The chilli sausage rolls are very much upping the game though.
Change at Barnham
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A couple of games last season she introduced home made CHILLI SCOTCH EGGS. They are OUTSTANDING, and now she has no possibility to score above a 9.0 if she leaves those out...
