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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.
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What a disgrace....
might fire the Aussie lads up though. Theyve been pretty lethargic in their output imo...
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(03-20-2018, 03:06 AM)dodge link Wrote:Funnily (?) enough, I have found the older (45+) more likely to sledge and carry on like idiots, not realising they are now playing the lowest 2 day grade in the comp.
The only fight I have ever seen at cricket was between the opposition team, where one player threw a stump at his team mate and then chased him around with another. There have been several that I have heard of (including one where the whole offending club was kicked out of the comp)
Funniest things that I have seen playing cricket include (excluding in-house stories)
- a group of medieval fighters all dressed up doing their thing. It stopped our game for about 15 minutes as we all watched
- a guy riding a trail bike, not realising it was on fire until we were all shouting at him. He got off pretty quick and proved he was a good sprinter - didn't come back for the bike.
- fire brigade coming to put out a fire about 10 metres from the fine leg boundary, and only way to access was across the oval. Fine leg fielder decided that they only needed to save the single rather than be on the boundary
I never played cricket but reading your post makes me wish I had.
My Dad was a pretty good cricketer and one of my favourite mementos of him is a bat signed by his teammates and with a little plaque commemorating his 100th catch in a season for Coburg RSL. He was on Carlton's list for a while but never managed to crack it for a game in the District team and went back to his mates at the RSL. I wish I had recorded his cricket stories.
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Marc Murphy was a decent cricketer too - I think he played for the University firsts. Played a bit against his brother who was also at University, who was playing way below his level.
DJC - 100 catches in a season is phenomenal - I reckon I would be about that mark having played seniors for about 30 years!
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(03-20-2018, 11:09 AM)dodge link Wrote:Marc Murphy was a decent cricketer too - I think he played for the University firsts. Played a bit against his brother who was also at University, who was playing way below his level.
DJC - 100 catches in a season is phenomenal - I reckon I would be about that mark having played seniors for about 30 years!
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Dad was a wicketkeeper - or "wicky" as my grandsons say (They love their cricket - and running, footy, basketball and tennis!) - but 100 catches is a fair effort. He paid for it with a nose that was squashed across his face and hands that looked like they had been pounded with a mallet.
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The ICC is a morally corrupt entity.... Rabada is a serial offender and for the good of the game needed to be suspended. Maybe for 1 match. But to get off ??? FMD, does he have to kill somebody on field to get sanctioned? What message is being delivered here?
No wonder Andrew Symonds left the game in disgust. Seems to be different rules depending upon where players come from.
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(03-20-2018, 08:56 AM)crashlander link Wrote:I find it difficult to understand how Rabada could get off. he was clearly guilty and has a history that has nothing to do with playing Aussies.
There needs to be a real change in the process and penalties for this stuff. The present system is not working as it should. Rabada should have been suspended and he shouldn't be alone. Warner should have got a match. De Koch should have gone, and those 2 guys in Sri Lanka should have got multiple games.
This is what happens when you get lawyers involved in an area that is of no concern to them. The ex-cricketer (Crowe) understands the game & the implications for this type of behaviour. Lawyers have no place in making overriding decisions on sport related judgements.
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As as I dislike McGrath and the NSW cricket mafia and their arrogance, they never resorted to physical contact of this nature....
Rabada should have gone - and he has serious history too!
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