Cricket

MiniGB got 6-8 from her two overs in the first game today (3-28 in the two overs in her second game).

(It's SMASH IT cricket, so she did get a few people out twice.)

Glad I'm just scoring, that's tricky enough, the umpiring is another level of minefield.

Consider a ball bowled (and hit) that the fielder misfields at first, and the batters have run a single, there were then overthrows during which the batters ran another single, and then during the third run (possibly before they'd completed the third run, no-one can be sure as we don't have replays) the ball goes over the boundary due to another overthrow (the offside boundaries were much smaller as most runs at this level are on the leg side and there were two games sharing a square). Is that:-

• 4 - for just the boundary
  
• 8 - for the two completed runs (every run counts double in SMASH IT cricket) and then the boundary
  
• 10 - for the three runs (again doubled, but we can't be sure if all were completed), and then the boundary
  
  

In one game it was scored as a 4 (when we were batting) and in the other game it was scored as a 10 (when we were bowling). Consistency within each game is key but between games it's at the whim of the scorers.

I'll add the above to my list of scenarios to discuss with the other team's scorer before each game starts.

There were numerous other comedy combinations such as being stumped off a wide, and one delivery that was scored as a wide, 4 byes and then 4 overthrows for a total of 10.

The best thing is that they're all having fun and learning each time. Less ball watching this time but they need to work on their backing up!