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Couple of mixed performances for my boy in the indoor league. One of the games they were missing two regulars who just didn’t turn up. Thankfully the older brother of another team mate was there so ended up playing but he had no gear with him. Fielding in a six a side game with only 5 players...

I think it’s quite common for promising youngsters to play for a lot of clubs. My son is 14 and while not at the level of @Fignon's Ponytail’s son he is already playing second XI men’s cricket. As well as his main club where he plays age group cricket as well as for the 2nds, he’s also played...

Just to clarify he didn’t actually walk, more took a couple of steps forward expecting the umpires hand to go up and then when it didn’t he returned to his crease. The bails were then taken off and he was given run out. I’m fairly certain he’d made his ground unless he’d stepped back out again...

The boy played his second indoor game last night against our very local rivals (both clubs are based in the same town, and probably the favourites to win the whole thing. In the end we lost by 28 runs but again our lads put up a good effort, restricting them to just 89 all out from 10.5 overs...

Indoor season started for my lad today. His first time playing, in fact apart from their coach who captained the side none of the team had never played indoor cricket before. The rest of the team was made up of an 18 year old and 4 members of the U14s squad. Entered into an adults league and...

My boy is gutted. Just had a text asking if he could sub field for the first XI as one of our openers has broken his nose. We are in London for the QPR game. Would have been a great experience for him playing at that level at 14.

I do agree with what you’ve written. He’s 14 but almost 6ft tall so I don’t see how it would have been over waist height and still hit the wicket (I didn’t see the ball in question so can’t shed any light unfortunately). Thankfully him taking 2 for 9 with the ball has cheered him up and he’s...

The boy guested for another local team today (I say guested 6 of the players were from our club so it was more like they were the guest players). He opened the batting for the first time for this team and quickly got to 13 off 10 balls. He then left what he thought was a waist high no ball that...

Been a bit tardy in updating this thread with my sons exploits on the cricket pitch recently. One of the things that has really annoyed him is that he kept getting out on 30. In age group T20 games players are retired at the end of the over when they get to 30 and he’s retired several times at...

Quick update from me about the boy, we haven't had much cricket the last few weeks as games have been called off over availability. He did manage to find a local village team looking for players for a friendly so guested for them, getting two run outs while keeping and hitting 15 not out batting...

The boy got a late call up on Friday for yesterdays second XI game away in Rye. Their opponents made 280 all out and unfortunately we made a slow start so by the time my lad came in at 6 the game was probably out of reach, needing 130 off of about 10 overs. So he decided to go for it and see if...

So a busy week is nearly at an end. Sunday the boy played a development friendly, 35 overs, pre-agreed that any batsman scoring 50 would retire and we'd declare at 200 to leave a chaseable total. We batted first, the came in at number and scored 8 runs before giving his wicket away with an ill...

At Hampton School for an MCC Foundation tournament. 2 wins out of 2 so far, I’ll post a full update later. Picture below doesn’t do this place justice, it’s huge. There are 3 cricket pitches and all are immaculate.

Busy week coming up for my lad. No game for the thirds on Saturday as they've not got enough players, he's on standby for the seconds but I doubt he'll be needed. He's going to watch the first XI if he isn't play. Colts training as part of his Young Leaders course Sunday morning followed by a...

Real baptism of fire for my son making his men's cricket debut a couple of months short of his 14th birthday, but plenty of positives to take. He was batting 7th and we were in to bat first. The openers started well putting on a quick 32 before the first wicket fell. 32-1 became 32-3 as their...

My boy has been called up to the second XI for Saturday for his debut in men’s cricket. He was due to be playing for the thirds but they can’t get enough players and after a drop out in the seconds he’s been asked to play. Delighted for him at juat 13 that he’s been given this chance. He’s very...

My son will be training the youngsters at his club too, luckily doing so covers both the Young Leaders and his volunteering element of the Duke of Edinburgh, two birds one stone.

I can't regale you with tales of my cricket exploits as I don't play but I'll live vicariously through my sons's exploits and chronicle what is hopefully another successful season for the Ryan Sidebottom lookalike (he's got to prefer that to me likening him to Marc Cucurella or Matteo Guendouz)...