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[treva]

Absolutely gutted at getting out on 49 this Saturday. Would have been my first ever 50. Got bowled in the penultimate over of the innings with no clue that I was on 49. If I had known I would have just defended that ball instead of heaving across the line at the opposition's best bowler. Ahh well, I continue to break my highest score with 37* the week before and now a 49. A fifty is, hopefully, not far away.

 

[blake]

At least you weren't retired on 48* before you'd ever made a 50..

 

[drainpipe32]

That's so mean

Although before I made a 50 I had my off stump rooted on 49.

 

[Howsie]

Never been out for 49 nor 99 although I have been dropped on 99 once before, not that I realised I was on it at the time.

 

[blake]

Sounds like our game kinda.. this guy was destroying us and hit a slog sweep across the line, straight down deep square leg's throat... and he dropped it, with the batsman on 98. Was kind of entertaining as a fieldsman, these two blokes were hitting us everywhere. The other guy made 130 off 60 balls before yours truly took a quality diving catch at deep midwicket.

Anyway, getting a bit off topic here so I'll just casually end my post now

 

[drainpipe32]

I almost never take quality catches, mine are either basic or I drop diving ones.

 

[blake]

I almost never take quality catches, mine are either basic or I drop diving ones.

This one was a quality one, I was right on the boundary and he got a huge top edge and it went miles into the air. I didn't trust the rest of the fielders on my team so I sprinted in for it calling it and managed to dive forward just at the right time, caught it clean as a whistle. Was a lot of pressure to take that catch though, I didn't want him scoring any more runs but I was just pretty relieved once I caught it.

Also in the 6 a side competition I played at January, some guy was hitting sixes all around the park and I was at square leg.. he hit a bullet slog sweep, I ran in and caught it a few centimetres off the ground.. didn't want to drop that!

I pride myself on my fielding though so if I dropped it I would've been disgraced.

 

[-D-S-B-]

I pride myself on my fielding though so if I dropped it I would've been disgraced.

Same here, it's sort of sad that fielding is the best part of my game. If I drop a catch, even a really difficult one, I get pretty dark at myself :laugh
But saying that, I only dropped one last season but it was quite the sitter. I rarely drop catches but I'd give up my fielding for decent batting any day :laugh

And er, been out on 49 once.

 

[Bounce]

I have been dismissed several times in the 40s.
Then, I guess around three or four times in the 90s.

The worse moment for me was when I was given LBW (correct decision by the umpire) on 197. It would have been my first double hundred. Now 197 is my highest score. The incident took place 6 to 7 months back.

 

[blake]

I have been dismissed several times in the 40s.
Then, I guess around three or four times in the 90s.

The worse moment for me was when I was given LBW (correct decision by the umpire) on 197. It would have been my first double hundred. Now 197 is my highest score. The incident took place 6 to 7 months back.

Backyard champion?

 

[drainpipe32]

What kind of backyard rules do you guys have? Our ones definitely favour the bowlers....

 

[-D-S-B-]

Same here, Average would probably be in the 20's for BYC.
We do use a stick as a bat though, or else it's just no fun.

 

[drainpipe32]

We use a plastic bat or the old yard bat from U-11's.

 

[-D-S-B-]

Bats are just to easy to use if you use a tennis ball.. Do you?
I wouldn't go thicker than a wicket, but we have a classic BYC stick. Perfect length been around for years now . A half taped tennis ball vs a stick on an uneven wicket makes great contests, dominated by the ball, rightly so.

 

[drainpipe32]

We occasionally use a taped ball but mostly tennis. Like I said our rules assist the bowlers in a big way. Run scoring is hard, just gotta grind it out.