Story Wearing the Baggy Blue; Is the Baggy Green next? (aka "Your looking nervous their.")

[mattfb]

"Your looking nervous there Matt"

"Shut up Mark, the earlier I get out the closer you are to batting!"


That shut him up. Mark Cameron is a cheeky bugger. But more importantly, Nannes just nearly had Hughes caught but Hodge dropped a sitter. Haha, bloody Victorians can't catch a cold. I'm sitting here with my pads on shivering in this bloody cold.


"Turn the heater on, it's freezing!"

"It's bloody 40 degrees!"


Oh, maybe I am nervous. It's my debut for the Blues, I'm put down to come in at 5 which is next drop. We are currently 2/68 batting first against the Vics. Wait, whats this? You want a back story? It's just the same old cliche stuff but if you demand it here it is:

It was the last game of grade cricket and I was strutting my stuff and being the legend I am I was hitting my 7th ton of the season () and I got noticed by the Blues selectors. I then got asked to go to their training in the off season. You know, all the callings and celebrations happen around now. Then the selectors being the idiots they are decide to throw me in the deep end for a laugh and put me at number 5 for the first match of the season against Victoria which brings me back to the story.

So Hughesy and Henriques are batting out there now, with Phil 27 not out and Moises 5 not out. I'm nervous as hell seems Nanness is bowling so good, and Holland is spinning it a mile down the other end.


HOOWWZZAAATT!


"Shut up Nanness you idiot thats missing by miles"


Daniel Smith is always one to speak his mind. Not sure how he can see though seems the SCG dressing room is completely side on with the pitch


"Oh you s***head Smithy, I guess you were wrong"


The umpired slowly raised the finger, which meant Moey was out for 5 and I was in. Nervous times!

 

[Roofrom50]

Haha, good back story mate. This is looking really good. Will keep my eye on this one Keep it up bro

 

[Highlander999]

LOL nice one Matt. Good to see I () have made career stories fashionable

Good luck your team and you will need it

 

[Jaztheman]

Pffft they were fashionable before yours.

Great start to the story, Matt, looking forward to seeing you go into bat soon. Hopefully you'll do better than Mark.

 

[mattfb]

LOL nice one Matt. Good to see I () have made career stories fashionable

Good luck your team and you will need it

Well,to be honest I liked your's and Dr Peppers so I decided to do one of my own My ICC story is still my main, this is my fun story. I'm not gonna use a game for it. This is the one where I write and it just flows

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Chapter 1: vs Victoria​

As I walked to the crease the small crowd at the SCG started applauding and showing their support. I am so relieved my debut is here and not at the G where I would probably be given the same welcome that Harbajan Singh would receive. Hughesy met me at the end of the pitch.

"Hey mate, how you feeling?"

"Bloody nervous, please tell me Nanness has finished his over"

"1 to come, good luck "

Hughes walked away with his grin on his face as I stand there looking like a stunned duck. He's not going to tell me what the hell Nanness is doing with the ball!? Oh well. I take guard on middle stump

"Yeah, you do that marking of middle cus we will be hitting it!"

"You idiot Crosthwaite, it's 'He's asking for middle boys, lets help him find it"

Damn Victorians.

As I finished taking guard I took a deep breath and looked up at Nannes. Holy crap he was looking angry. I felt like stopping and saying "Calm down big fella, we are 3-68!" but of course I couldn't do that. He steamed in. And steamed in. And kept coming. Bloody hell why is he running in from the boundary? He finally reaches the crease and lets one fly down the offside at 140k's. I easily let it go. Wow, that was easy!

Hughesy and I met midpitch.

"Damn it Phil, can you tell me the pitch conditions!"

"Mate, it's easy, just look down at the pitch yourself!"

Far out Phil is an idiot. Oh well, I was at the non strikers so I got to watch Holland bowl, so I can gather what he is doing there. Hughes calls me through for a quick single on the first ball of the over which means I'm facing Holland, and because the previous ball was a full toss I have no idea what he's doing with the ball! As I mark middle I hear Crosthwaite begin to say something.

"He's asking for..."

"Don't even think about it"

Do they ever learn?

 

[Jaztheman]

Ha, good update there, Matt. Hopefully you can bat well with Phil although I think he's gonna get out soon. You seem to be tense as can be and not looking in 'the zone', so once you've got settled it'll be a lot easier. First things first though, to get settled.

Brilliant work so far, Matt, looking forward to seeing this unravel.

 

[Mad Snake]

yer yer good work matt, but your making us Vic look like idiots

 

[mattfb]

Well Jimmy, I guess this story's purpose has been served all-ready!
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Chapter 1: vs Victoria​

10 overs into the innings and Hughes and I have built a steady partnership worth about 30. With the score at 3-104 we were batting well. I was on 14 and Hughes had pushed onto 43. Nannes was out of the attack for Harwood but Holland was in for a few more overs. I was on strike against Harwood. He is mean and angry and was annoyed at his figures of 0-42 off 12 overs which didn't help me. He steamed in a bowled a full one on the offside which I gobbled up smashing it through the covers for 4. My first boundary in Domestic cricket!

Harwood wasn't happy about that, and we went toe to toe. I'm not the tallest guy so I was looking up to him that whole 5 or 10 seconds and my neck was starting to get sore so I decided to break the ice.

"Man your bowling crap today"

I then tapped the pitch, bumped shoulders against him and walked down the pitch to talk to Hughes. Harwood couldn't believe it. This 18 year old debutant had just payed out his bowling. Maybe it wasn't the smartest thing but I was determined not to show any weakness.

Next over I was back in the pavilion though. Holland stayed over the wicket to me and got one to drift across and turned it sharply. I pushed at it and edged it to slip. That was the end of my first innings as I was walking back to the dressing room for 19 with the score at 4-109. We were in a bit of trouble and I was disappointed in myself. I copped a bit of abuse from Harwood as I left the field. I got a few claps as I walked off but it was no consolation.

Steven Smith walked past me as he made his way to the crease. I told him to simply watch the spin. I got back into the dressing room and thread my gear into the kit. I let off a bit of steam, grabbed a drink and headed over to our analyst to review the ball I got out on.

"So, Tom, what did I do wrong?"

"You'll see here you pushed at it trying to play straight, and with the angle and it was spinning, you had to play it more through cover

"Ahh, i've always had trouble with that"

"Well you better fix it, you don't teams to find out your weakness"

With a nod I left and sat down with the boys on the balcony. Hughesy had just brought up his 50 a few balls earlier and we were 4-119.

 

[Jaztheman]

Brilliant stuff so far Matt, love the anaylst touch at the end, really good kind of feature. You may of only scored 19 after a bit of banter with Harwood but at least he didn't get you out! Hopefully your team can get a steady total now.

Keep this up.

 

[Mad Snake]

lol, i wouldnt be getting Harwood angry if i was you , nice writing Matt

 

[Roofrom50]

haha, your a brave man matty, working up Harwood isn't the smartest move you'll do

 

[surendar]

Very different kind of a start to the story Matty... Good luck to the remaining part of this story.. I am looking forward to it Keep up the good works

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Everyone's idolising me these days . Anyway, you're a cocky fellow aren't ya ? Just stay concentrated and don't let them get to you.

 

[Left_Hander]

19 isn't that bad on debut. You seem a 'confident' player already

 

[carn tigez]

Yeah a good read mate, good work.