03-20-2018, 09:42 AM
Prof. It is a great thing about cricket - you spend so much time doing nothing that you have to sledge your teammates (so much more fun). Occasionally the stories are about someone's achievement, but moreso a failure of some kind.
One week we were playing on a ground next to our fifths and fielding. A club legend (for whom the duck club is named) came out to bat. We just stopped for a few minutes. The legend (career batting average <5) was 'going for' his third consecutive golden duck. We told the batsmen what was going on. They cheered as loudly as us as the golden was avoided.
It is the richness of club, as you suggest that makes it the sport it is.
One week we were playing on a ground next to our fifths and fielding. A club legend (for whom the duck club is named) came out to bat. We just stopped for a few minutes. The legend (career batting average <5) was 'going for' his third consecutive golden duck. We told the batsmen what was going on. They cheered as loudly as us as the golden was avoided.
It is the richness of club, as you suggest that makes it the sport it is.