Cricket things that annoy you

[Black Diamond]

I used to play against a guy who literally had his face caved in, he later became a Kookaburra too.

Can you share who without doxing yourself? Guessing Tim Deavin.

I remember another kid copping a ball square to the junk, it was a blood curdling scream I'll never forget.

Lol. I was hit flush once and no air or sound was getting in or out.

 

[PhatBoy]

It is a lot like batting in that if you watch the ball you will naturally move or duck.

I can only recall seeing one player hit in the head/face playing 1st grade having been around the game all my life.

And while some of the swinging looks wild and tackling can seem risky, everyone knows what they are doing.

The real risks are being hit hard by the ball on the hand (Kookaburra Matt Dawson had part of his ring finger amputated before the Olympics) and the knee cap (players have had careers ruined this way).

Most of it I could sort of envisage ‘yeah I could see myself giving that a go if I was fitter and had a taste for it’ (it just wasn’t a sport I was into) but watching short corners and the speed of them and how the players would just willingly attack the ball with little if any regard for what was coming (but obviously as you say a sense of how to handle it) was a pretty impressive display of bravery to me as someone who generally looked at rugby league as the ultimate test of it in team sport terms

 

[Black Diamond]

Most of it I could sort of envisage ‘yeah I could see myself giving that a go if I was fitter and had a taste for it’ (it just wasn’t a sport I was into) but watching short corners and the speed of them and how the players would just willingly attack the ball with little if any regard for what was coming (but obviously as you say a sense of how to handle it) was a pretty impressive display of bravery to me as someone who generally looked at rugby league as the ultimate test of it in team sport terms

I discourage adults from taking the game up. Not wise having not learned the skills from childhood. Unsafe for them and for everyone else. The lower grades are where the injuries happen.

Some of us would do away with short corners or at least modify them. Although the players now where a lot more protective gear for those than in the past. There have been plenty of hand and knee injuries from those.

 

[PhatBoy]

I discourage adults from taking the game up. Not wise having not learned the skills from childhood. Unsafe for them and for everyone else. The lower grades are where the injuries happen.

Some of us would do away with short corners or at least modify them. Although the players now where a lot more protective gear for those than in the past. There have been plenty of hand and knee injuries from those.

I have good hand-eye but yeah, not that kind of good and not conditioned for that.

 

[big_e]

Helmets are required, under the playing conditions, to be worn by wicketkeepers standing up to the stumps in all tests, ODIs, T20Is, all professional cricket in Australia (shield, one-dayers, T20s), and all CA-organised junior comps (national u19s, u17s, etc).

If there are suburban or country comps that don't mandate it, it would be completely bizarre. If it's in your comp's playing conditions but not being policed, then report it to the association. Nothing's more important than your brain.

 

[Black Diamond]

Anyway, two things that really annoy me.

"Red ball" this and "white ball" that. He doesn't have the technique for the red ball. He is a good white ball bowler.

Give me a spell.

The correct terms are long form and short form (or limited overs) cricket.

I also hate the "Asian" stuff. You need three spinners on tour in Asia.

We are not English. The term is subcontinent or Middle East, depending on where the tour is.

 

[magpie_marty]

Going off for and early tea due to bad light at grounds that have lighting.

 

[Black Diamond]

Going off for and early tea due to bad light at grounds that have lighting.

Going off for bad light at all these days is a joke.

If day one of a test is overcast they should use a pink ball the whole match.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Anyway, two things that really annoy me.

"Red ball" this and "white ball" that. He doesn't have the technique for the red ball. He is a good white ball bowler.

Give me a spell.

The correct terms are long form and short form (or limited overs) cricket.

I also hate the "Asian" stuff. You need three spinners on tour in Asia.

We are not English. The term is subcontinent or Middle East, depending on where the tour is.

Or even better, "Cricket" and "Hit'n'Giggle"

 

[31550]

Anyway, two things that really annoy me.

"Red ball" this and "white ball" that. He doesn't have the technique for the red ball. He is a good white ball bowler.

Give me a spell.

The correct terms are long form and short form (or limited overs) cricket.

I also hate the "Asian" stuff. You need three spinners on tour in Asia.

We are not English. The term is subcontinent or Middle East, depending on where the tour is.

It annoys me that different coloured balls perform differently. I get WHY they do. It just annoys me that they do. Having different coloured balls for different playing conditions make sense - I just think the construction should be standardised so that they all perform pretty much the same as each other (under the same conditions that is).

 

[Plugger35]

I never wore a helmet in junior cricket in the 80s even when I made the step up to district cricket against some faster bowlers.

I didn't play the hook shot though, I employed the Steve Waugh tactic after he got dropped of ducking and weaving short balls.

He used to be a compulsive hooker like Kim Hughes and he decided to shelve the hook shot after it got him out too many times.

The only problem with that tactic is that the bowlers bounce you more, if you can hook them for six they will think twice about it.

 

[jannissary]

might be my youthful sensibilities, but 11 years later i’m still seething over my coach giving me a spray because i never “respected” the opposition bowlers. i had an excellent eye when i batted & often slammed runs quickly.

first game of the season i come in at 4, hit the opposition bowler for two sixes and a four in the first over, drinks are called (because said ball ended up in a cow shit) and my coach was extremely unimpressed that i “didn’t respect” the pies that he was bowling. it was irrational and honestly the reason why i stopped playing. the “lack of respect” really kept me in the lowest grade despite arguably being one of the better batsman & fielders in the team

/rant

 

[31550]

I never wore a helmet in junior cricket in the 80s even when I made the step up to district cricket against some faster bowlers.

I didn't play the hook shot though, I employed the Steve Waugh tactic after he got dropped of ducking and weaving short balls.

He used to be a compulsive hooker like Kim Hughes and he decided to shelve the hook shot after it got him out too many times.

The only problem with that tactic is that the bowlers bounce you more, if you can hook them for six they will think twice about it.

Didn't have helmets when I played in U16s. Most kids didn't own pads or gloves, and many didn't own a bat good enough to play with. We used the 'club kit'.
I'm amazed today at what little protection we had in those days. I played seniors as a 15yo 4ft 8inch kid on matting, basically just as a fielder. Then come in at 10 or 11 to face some wild quickie intent on knocking your head off. My only defence was stepping to leg and hoiking them over 3rd man.

 

[Black Diamond]

It annoys me that different coloured balls perform differently. I get WHY they do. It just annoys me that they do. Having different coloured balls for different playing conditions make sense - I just think the construction should be standardised so that they all perform pretty much the same as each other (under the same conditions that is).

I am annoyed by helicopters for the same reason.

I get why they are able to fly but it annoys me they can stay up there. And so unsafe...

 

[Gethelred]

I am annoyed by helicopters for the same reason.

I get why they are able to fly but it annoys me they can stay up there. And so unsafe...

This might be just about my favourite post on BF.

 

[Plugger35]

Didn't have helmets when I played in U16s. Most kids didn't own pads or gloves, and many didn't own a bat good enough to play with. We used the 'club kit'.
I'm amazed today at what little protection we had in those days. I played seniors as a 15yo 4ft 8inch kid on matting, basically just as a fielder. Then come in at 10 or 11 to face some wild quickie intent on knocking your head off. My only defence was stepping to leg and hoiking them over 3rd man.

Not many kids back then had helmets, only one kid I played with wore a helmet and he copped a lot of stick for wearing it.

I had my own bat but I used the club kit for most other gear like pads and gloves, I borrowed a thigh pad off someone else.

 

[jannissary]

Not many kids back then had helmets, only one kid I played with wore a helmet and he copped a lot of stick for wearing it.

I had my own bat but I used the club kit for most other gear like pads and gloves, I borrowed a thigh pad off someone else.

who'd you nick the box from?

 

[Plugger35]

who'd you nick the box from?

They were in the club kit with the pads and gloves, that was one piece of protective gear that you couldn't do without.

 

[caveman72]

They were in the club kit with the pads and gloves, that was one piece of protective gear that you couldn't do without.

When my son first started playing baseball he used to stand in the outfield hitting it

 

[Black Diamond]

South Africa, England, New Zealand Australia. The SENA nations. No.

In honour of these countries' Celtic traditions (less so England), this collective should instead be known as SEAN.

 

[sabso]

South Africa, England, New Zealand Australia. The SENA nations. No.

In honour of these countries' Celtic traditions (less so England), this collective should instead be known as SEAN.

Just because half of Australians are called Lachlan doesn’t mean there’s a strong Celtic tradition there.

 

[1989]

Another thing that annoys me is the elitist attitude towards grass roots, park and community cricket. The vast majority of cricket lovers and cricket players never play at a level which warrants or can afford professional umpires, yet they are the ones who provide the income for professional players and umpires, pay their subscriptions, support club sponsors, attend fundraising events, pay the council rates to maintain grounds and facilities, attend working bees, coach and umpire the kids and drive them to games, etc. etc. Then we get pissed on by elitist snobs who tells us we aren't playing 'real cricket'.

Well said.

 

[Black Diamond]

Must we call Hobart Hurricanes "Canes"?

Or Melbourne Renegades "Gades"?

This is so ****en stupid. Neither has anything to do with the teams' actual names.

Call them their proper names or come up with some proper rhyming slang.

 

[cats_09]

Must we call Hobart Hurricanes "Canes"?

Or Melbourne Renegades "Gades"?

This is so ****en stupid. Neither has anything to do with the teams' actual names.

Call them their proper names or come up with some proper rhyming slang.

The Renegades literally use the term 'Gades' themselves - so if it's good enough for them to call themselves that, then why can't others?

 

[sabso]

Must we call Hobart Hurricanes "Canes"?

Or Melbourne Renegades "Gades"?

This is so ****en stupid. Neither has anything to do with the teams' actual names.

Call them their proper names or come up with some proper rhyming slang.

I don’t mind this. It’s like calling North Melbourne the Roos. Or the Boners.