Who plays cricket?

[British Bulldog]

The Mushtaq Ahmed thread got me thinking that I seem to know loads of people who love cricket but but apart from little bulldog and 3 of his mates I dont know anybody else who plays the game, So who on here plays cricket? At what level? And what are your best batting / bowling figure's?

 

[supaseagull]

I used to play...indoors at Owzat and used to bowl leg spin...

Love cricket but sadly don't get the time to play any more what with being so involved in football

 

[Munkfish]

I used to play quite a bit before i turned 18/19, used to be a wicket keeper, took 5 stumpings in one game which i was very proud of although we did have a great spin bowler who once bowled out a whole team on tour.

My best batting figures was 63 run out on the last ball in a partnership of 137.

Bowling figures are not very good, the highlight being bowling a 8 ball over and getting a wicket on the last ball

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I played last season, but an ankle injury stopped me playing this season.

My best batting was something like 78; my fellow batsman and I put on 212 for the second wicket in a Twenty20 match and best bowling figures are 4/23.

My finest innings was going in at number 11 and hitting all 19 runs needed to beat Worth Abbey. As most games had finished (the school had four pitches), we had a large crowd watching and I was bundled by about 50 people after grabbing the stumps in a triumphant fashion. Truly marvellous scenes

 

[British Bulldog]

Sadly any aspirations I had of becomming a cricketer started and finished in one game many years ago. I bowled one over and got hit for 28 ( 4 sixes and a four ) and got bowled out 2nd ball for a duck.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I play. No league stuff anymore sadly, due to family / time pressures, but in my uni days I played at Aigburth [Liverpool] in the Lancashire leagues. I am playing this very Sunday though.

Best batting 65.

Best bowling 9-26. That was in a league game on the Saturday. I took 7-14 the very next day in a Sunday game. Sadly these days that's about my entire haul for a complete season.

 

[El Presidente]

I play for Trafford in the Cheshire league. These days open the bowling for the second team, with the occasional foray into the firsts if they are desperate.

Best batting 43
Best bowling 7-43

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I play Sunday cricket in Speldhurst. Middle order batsman with high score of 88 but not made a 50 for Speldhurst yet in three years (couple of 40 odds)!

Bowl off spin but not a strike bowler at all. Best figures 4-14 v. Fordcombe two years ago.

On tour to Somerset in July for a week - heaven!

 

[CHAPPERS]

I think I might still hold the record for the 8th wicket partnership for St Peters C.C in the Festival against Scaynes Hill, it was about 114 or summat, I contributed 24 (was batting at ten). We got through about 45 overs or something stupid. Saved the game like. I got out in the final over like a right twat.

 

[Badger]

I play every weekend for Keymer and Hassocks CC, I used to open the bowling for our second team but after a couple of years not playing I am now back down in the third team.

The highlight of any cricket game is of course the tea interval, you need a good selection of sandwiches and cakes to keep you going

 

[Mendoza]

I used to be a good player as a colt for Brighton & Hove, I then made the step up to Brighton & Hove 2nds, and people were bowling 15mph faster than i was used to and i lost the love of the game.

I then started playing for Cowfold in 2003, but gave it up because of the travelling.

On monday i played for the first time in a net sesh and loved it, and think i want to take it up again.

Off spin bowler, number 8 batsmen I reckon, best figures were something ridiculous against Scaynes HIll when I took 4 for 16 from 5 overs

Managed a 50 no too

 

[British Bulldog]

I'm very pleased with how little bulldogs cricket is coming along in his first full season, He plays for steyning u16's in a midweek limited over league but I think his best figure's have come when he got called up to the steyning 3rd X1 team. I was a bit worried how he'd get on playing among adults but he finished 22 not out when he batted and his bowling figure's were 9.5 overs- 6 maidens- 5 wickets for 10 runs. He certainly puts me to shame when it comes to sport.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Back in Sussex I used to play for Worthing through the colts team and then 2's and 3's as an adult. Went and lived in NZ for a while and played in Auckland at a pretty decent standard.

Now play for Old Bristolians down here in Bristol for the 3rd team, play more for fun now than anything. Hit my highest ever score last season of 126 and my downfall was trying to hit people in the beer garden which was invitingly placed at cow corner.

I absolutely love cricket, prefer it to football really in terms of watching but still probably just about enjoy playing football more.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I got a text from my older brother this week, to say that my 9 year old nephew got his maiden 50 [from 19 balls!]. . Fair play to him.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm very pleased with how little bulldogs cricket is coming along in his first full season, He plays for steyning u16's in a midweek limited over league but I think his best figure's have come when he got called up to the steyning 3rd X1 team. I was a bit worried how he'd get on playing among adults but he finished 22 not out when he batted and his bowling figure's were 9.5 overs- 6 maidens- 5 wickets for 10 runs. He certainly puts me to shame when it comes to sport.

B-limey. Damn good figures. Fancy sending him over to the County Ground, BB?

I played cricket at Uni and we met Loughborough Uni in the quarters of the BUSA nationals. We got lost so they inserted themselves and hit 240. Very gettable, it they did not have four pacemen bowling 75mph+ We succumbed and were all out for 111, but a jolly fine experience. Even if I was the last man out stumped on 1

 

[British Bulldog]

I got a text from my older brother this week, to say that my 9 year old nephew got his maiden 50 [from 19 balls!]. . Fair play to him.

I think it's great when youngsters get involved in cricket, It's so much more relaxed, supportive and less pressurised to win at all costs unlike you get with youth football.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I think I might still hold the record for the 8th wicket partnership for St Peters C.C in the Festival against Scaynes Hill, it was about 114 or summat, I contributed 24 (was batting at ten). We got through about 45 overs or something stupid. Saved the game like. I got out in the final over like a right twat.

Ah happy days. Scaynes Hill were the second-biggest ****s in the league, mind, after Horsham. With Lewes Priory third.

Anyway I played for St Peters with Chappers and then I played for Ponteland when I moved to Newcastle, and then Great Corby in the Eden Valley league division 2 when I moved to Cumbria. Best bowling 2-1-7-2 (including getting out someone who had previously played for South Africa A, surely my finest cricketing moment, even if he did edge a shit ball to the wicket-keeper)

Work too many weekends now to join a club in London but would like to, it's FUN.

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

I think it's great when youngsters get involved in cricket, It's so much more relaxed, supportive and less pressurised to win at all costs unlike you get with youth football.

He obviously hasn't played against Horsham yet! The most arrogant stuck up bunch of people ever. Very much into their must win ethos and if your face doesnt fit you could take 10 wickets for 10 runs in training and still not play in a full game.

 

[Scoffers]

I play every week for Southwick Wanderers, have done so since 1990, I have notched up several scores in the 70s, but no further, sadly. On the bowling front, I tend to come on 2nd change and try to just bowl straight, and tend to get more LBW's and bowled's rather than caught, I have taken 4 wickets on a number of occasions, but never 5

 

[Scoffers]

I played last season, but an ankle injury stopped me playing this season.

My best batting was something like 78; my fellow batsman and I put on 212 for the second wicket in a Twenty20 match and best bowling figures are 4/23.

My finest innings was going in at number 11 and hitting all 19 runs needed to beat Worth Abbey. As most games had finished (the school had four pitches), we had a large crowd watching and I was bundled by about 50 people after grabbing the stumps in a triumphant fashion. Truly marvellous scenes

Right, so when is the BOFster gonna don the whites this season, all you have to do is ask you know !!!!