[Cricket] (Dickheads in) club cricket.

[Gwylan]

Are women allowed to play with men (oh stop it) then?

I always wanted to play, but cricket wasn’t introduced for girls at my school until the year after I’d left Gutted. I’d still fancy giving it a go now but I daresay any local clubs would be way above a beginner’s level. At my age anyway

There are no bars on females playing in male teams. In theory, a county team could pick a woman (a couple of years ago, Sussex did actually register Sarah Taylor as a player, as back-up, although she never played).

You should give cricket a go, the ECB is really keen to get more women into the game. There have been special soft ball events up and down the country that have been female-only. I think you've missed the Hove one but there's one in Hastings on 12 August. Contact your local club and say you'd like a go, unless they're stuck in the dark ages (and, sadly, there are some) they'll welcome you.

I've been injured all season so haven't done a net yet but if you have no joy at your local club, you can always come along to Lewes when I'm there so we can see how you get along.

EDIT: You're BH aren't you? They actually have a women's team so they'd definitely welcome you. Really friendly club too. You should check them out

 

[Diablo]

Golf clubs are teeming with ******** like that. One such told me to tuck my shirt in on the first tee. I mean, really.

Didn`t you read dress code ..sure it would have been advertised..keep to council courses if you want no dress code.

 

[Luke93]

Should be banished by his club.

 

[essbee1]

Didn`t you read dress code ..sure it would have been advertised..keep to council courses if you want no dress code.

This was a council course. Posh council.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

There are no bars on females playing in male teams. In theory, a county team could pick a woman (a couple of years ago, Sussex did actually register Sarah Taylor as a player, as back-up, although she never played).

You should give cricket a go, the ECB is really keen to get more women into the game. There have been special soft ball events up and down the country that have been female-only. I think you've missed the Hove one but there's one in Hastings on 12 August. Contact your local club and say you'd like a go, unless they're stuck in the dark ages (and, sadly, there are some) they'll welcome you.

I've been injured all season so haven't done a net yet but if you have no joy at your local club, you can always come along to Lewes when I'm there so we can see how you get along.

EDIT: You're BH aren't you? They actually have a women's team so they'd definitely welcome you. Really friendly club too. You should check them out

I’m HH these days. I have literally never played, so I’d be absolutely starting from scratch. Always had a decent throwing arm (I know this from playing alternative ball games at school!), can catch, and used to be pretty decent at hitting a rounders ball or baseball. But have zero actual cricket experience other than watching.

I did glance at those soft-ball events advertised by the ECB, but imagined they were probably aimed at kids or players a fair bit younger than me!


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[Diablo]

This was a council course. Posh council.

I got told off for shorts with not white socks at Copthorne.....but a council course , where was it ?

 

[Papak]

I don't think cricket has ever really actually been the game it's hierarchy at Lords would like to think it is - at least not for a very long time.

I played a bit back in the day but local league cricket is full of biased umpires looking after their own club's interests plus players who won't walk after an edge etc. and plenty of sledging too.

Most games I played in involved almost no socialising with the oppo afterwards.

Having been involved in many sports as both a player and more recently a parent, those with the highest values (in my opinion) are rugby and snooker.

 

[loz]

I’m HH these days. I have literally never played, so I’d be absolutely starting from scratch. Always had a decent throwing arm (I know this from playing alternative ball games at school!), can catch, and used to be pretty decent at hitting a rounders ball or baseball. But have zero actual cricket experience other than watching.

I did glance at those soft-ball events advertised by the ECB, but imagined they were probably aimed at kids or players a fair bit younger than me!


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When I was played in the Mid Sussex league Ansty 3rd team was 50 / 50Men and women in fact young women.. one girl who was about 16 scored a century against us, I was in the indoor school at the county ground hove a couple of years later and she was down there netting with the men.

 

[LlcoolJ]

When I was played in the Mid Sussex league Ansty 3rd team was 50 / 50Men and women in fact young women.. one girl who was about 16 scored a century against us, I was in the indoor school at the county ground hove a couple of years later and she was down there netting with the men.

Yep. Plenty of girls and women playing here in Yorkshire. Some really good players.

 

[LVGull]

Our game yesterday was interesting. Playing away at a club we've played for many, many years (who shall remain nameless). Our Sunday cricket has always been played as 'timed games', as you know - i.e. First innings declare when they chose, but in reality always at tea, and the other team chase the total, or have the option of playing out a draw.

Well yesterday, the other side, with quite a few youngish, competitive young souls, didn't want that, and as the home side announced that the format would be 40 overs per side...

We made 334/3 (your lad's Parham record smashed btw, as one of our openers made 179) despite juggling our order to promote a couple to avoid anything TOO ridiculous. Our best batsman didn't even get in. Any normal Sunday we'd have declared at 250, and saved them an hour in the sun, but you can't declare a limited overs innings - you'd look right arrogant ****s.

Lesson learned for them, hopefully.

Who do you play for?

 

[GT49er]

Well. I wish the clubs in and around Gloucester had been as friendly as some of the clubs described on here when I moved to the area and got married back in the 80s. For several seasons I would get the numbers of club secretaries from the local papers and ring round them, hoping to get a game.
I'm no great shakes as a cricketer, but I could deliver a couple of overs of medium pace - quite friendly, but at least fairly accurate, and occasionally cutting back off the seam into a RH batsman - and could usually hold up an end for a little while with the bat. Did they want to know, though? -not a bit. Typical answers were , "Do you know anyone in our team?" or "Do we know you?" or "Yes, we do sometimes struggle to get a full team of eleven out but we don't want any more players, thank you".
So, I'd try, "Well, maybe I could come along to one of your practice evenings?" - not a chance , they were only for team members!
I'd leave my phone number (if I could - some would simply say, "What for? - there's no point") in case they ever found themselves in difficulty getting eleven players out, maybe for the second team (if they had one).
I never had a single phone call, and have never played cricket since.

In and around Gloucester there don't seem to be as many cricket clubs as there used to be thirty years ago...........................................

 

[Dick Head]

No, I'm not.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Didn`t you read dress code ..sure it would have been advertised..keep to council courses if you want no dress code.

Not sure if that's meant to be sarcastic or not but that sums up why golf is struggling to attract paying customers.

 

[Weststander]

Minor league cricket has turned to shit really. Too many Billy BigBollocks who act like they're playing in the Ashes - sledging, sweary send-offs etc are now the norm. Like HKFC I stopped playing it but still watch junior quite often - can get quite unpleasant - never used to be like it, even at more senior levels.



That's more the old-school 'rules are rules' nobs. My next door neighbour got called in the the secretary's office at his former club and was told he'd 'been seen on the course with an untucked shirt'. At the same club, I was in the bar having a drink after a round on a very hot day and a member spoke to the guy I'd played with and asked him to ask me to 'fully comply with the dress code'. Apparently sandals without socks wasn't allowed. I told him he could speak to me directly but he completely blanked me and said to my pal 'Please advise your guest I only speak to members'

Golf participation is falling and courses closing. You would think that clubs would be bending over backwards to welcome members and guests.

Too many arrogant little pricks, hiding behind their title. Caddyshack in England!

Laughable politics too between these pricks in Sussex golf and cricket clubs, as the snobs infight over elections, whether their beloved son should be in the first 11 and control over the budget. Leave them to it.

 

[Cian]

This was a council course. Posh council.

The reason I was only playing council courses (before I gave up entirely) was that anyone trying to be that priggish would end up being lectured by the course staff; and I had no interest in associating with those twats anyway

One of the DCC courses is a Christy O'Connor Jr design and fairly posh but the dress code was one line - "no denim".

 

[dazzer6666]

I’m HH these days. I have literally never played, so I’d be absolutely starting from scratch. Always had a decent throwing arm (I know this from playing alternative ball games at school!), can catch, and used to be pretty decent at hitting a rounders ball or baseball. But have zero actual cricket experience other than watching.

I did glance at those soft-ball events advertised by the ECB, but imagined they were probably aimed at kids or players a fair bit younger than me!


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Kinell. If you can catch and throw, any decent cricket club (particularly with a ladies team but not exclusively) will welcome you with open arms. Immediately puts you ahead of most of the (mostly male) players in the 3s and 4s at junior’s club in BH. Seriously. Give it a go.........

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Are women allowed to play with men (oh stop it) then?

I always wanted to play, but cricket wasn’t introduced for girls at my school until the year after I’d left Gutted. I’d still fancy giving it a go now but I daresay any local clubs would be way above a beginner’s level. At my age anyway


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I played cricket at HCGS. I was useless at bowling, but ok at batting. I would've preferred to play stoolball but cricket it was. The school team regularly beat the father's team every year.
One girl in my class went on to be wicket keeper for Sussex ladies.

My daughter's PE teacher played for England (this was a school up north).

 

[studio150]

Apparently sandals without socks wasn't allowed. I told him he could speak to me directly but he completely blanked me and said to my pal 'Please advise your guest I only speak to members'

I trust you pointed out the fashion crime that is socks and sandals

 

[studio150]

Posted on another thread about some of the cheating by "win at all cost" coaches umpiring in junior cricket,

Reminds me of a school game many years ago where the opposition teacher called us for a short run. Nothing unusual in this other than only a single was run, and there was no run out

 

[dazzer6666]

I trust you pointed out the fashion crime that is socks and sandals

Indeed.......didn’t help though. We just drunk up and left. I haven’t been back since. Plenty of other local clubs.