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Identification of the players
“BOWLER’S NAME!”
And remember standard scoring payment is £2.50, a free tea and a half a shandy in the clubhouse...
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tea
clubhouseWhere do you play, Lord's?
Our tea equals a can (special brew for the older members, lager for the more respectable) and a fag/spliff. Supermalt if you're in form and reckon you fancy the look of the oppo.
The 'clubhouse' is usually a nearby tree that can double as a toilet and partial roof when rain stops play.
Apparently only about 3 players 'know how to score' too. As one of those 3, i can assure you that £2.50 payment and a free drink is the stuff of impossible dreams. If you want to be relieved from your umpiring stint then you have to just walk off the pitch and force the issue otherwise you will be out there for 40 overs.
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we've got two brothers and a dad, surname: Watts
cue hilarious japery EVERY WEEK.
punkture
BRM
Rules will be applied gently but consistently hopefully, we (our club and set of parents at least) want the girls to have fun rather than have any kind of "win at all costs" mentality, although we've heard that some of the other teams in the league are a bit more ruthless.
Hopefully the majority of teams will agree to be a bit more lenient at first, the suggestion was to warn them of the first no ball (unless it's huge or and results in a really unplayable ball) and guide them in from there. It helps that wides and no-balls don't need to be re-bowled, it's a straight 6 balls from each over regardless.
(This is partly the concern for me over scoring and umpiring, remembering that things aren't quite the same as "normal" cricket. It's "pairs" cricket so each pair is in for 2 overs and can't be out, each wicket just costs the team -5 runs.)
We'll be doing the scoring on paper first, and if we don't balls that up then I can transfer it to the app after the game(s). Or, hopefully, we'll have someone doing paper scoring and someone else plugging it into the app at the same time.
Identification of the players is going to be the big problem at first, most parents don't know any of the other kids at all. Hopefully none of the parents try and drop-off and pick them up later.