Cricket

First weekend of U11 Girls cricket was awesome. 3 teams playing each other, 8 over innings and batting in pairs so they all got 2 overs of batting and an over of bowling.

The girls were brilliant, gently encouraged/coached by one of the parents who was happy to umpire all 3 games. Rules (sensibly) weren't followed to the letter[1], but any leniency was applied consistently to all teams and any mistakes were accidental. The general rule was that it was meant to be encouraging not demoralising for the girls. Luckily all three teams had a similar mixture of abilities.

I wasn't needed to score (as a former coach and professional scorer came down to help out) but I scored on paper anyway and was within a few runs of the correct score each time (and spot on once). My mistakes were generally allowing myself to be distracted.

Likely to be scoring properly next games but I'll be a lot more prepared for it and will avoid distraction.

A win and a loss, and MiniGB took her first wicket and scored 3 and 2 in her innings (without being dismissed).

1. They didn't bother with no balls for > 2 bounces, and the first front foot no-ball offence was just a warning. Generally each team had one bowler that bowled 6 no-balls (well, the ones that didn't go for wides) so it all evened out. It's hard on them as most teams would have only had 2 or 3 evening training sessions before launching the girls into their first games.
   

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