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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    By coincidence, my Uber driver home this evening played for Rottingdean and was bemoaning their relegation. Interesting chat as we knew a few players in common - although he plays at a far higher level than I ever did.
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    No. I just decided to block everything
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    Oh, I don't know. I once batted 14 overs and didn't score a run. If you can do it for 14, it must be possible to do it for longer. I only stopped because we'd reached the end of the innings. I didn't have any edges, I middled everything, so there were no easy runs.
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    The law was different 20 years ago. At that time, if the ball was from a slow bowler then it was only a no ball if it went above the shoulder. For fast/medium bowlers it was the waist. The law was changed (I think about 10 years ago) because there was clearly a dispute about what slow and medium...
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    Times have changed. I remember a game about 40 years when our opposition needed about a dozen to win, with loads of wickets in hand. It then started absolutely belting it down, thunder and lightning, the works. As they only needed a few, we played on for a few overs. I got a skier heading...
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    😂 When Frankie hit the ball it stayed hit.
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    I'm a Lewes Priory member and I can confirm that we lose a lot of balls over that boundary. I shudder to think how many we'd lose if Fignon's Ponytail's lad was still playing for us :lolol: . I always make sure I'm bowling from the Lewes end when I turn my arm over. Interesting question about...
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    [Cricket] The village / amateur 2024 CRICKET thread...

    I managed to strain my achilles reffing a rugby match last Saturday, so a few weeks off for me. I'm still seething after getting my first ever golden 🦆 in the last match of 2023. Good luck to everyone playing this weekend, I can only envy you

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