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There's an interesting mix of teams in our league. Wimbledon CC and Spencer CC are pretty ruthless as they have big squads to draw from (they field 4 or 5 teams at each age group) and are very much interested in winning every game.
Old Ruts, Roehampton and us are more interested in developing the players, giving everyone a game, bowling everyone (rather than maximising best bowlers), etc. No idea about Esher CC as we didn't play them last season.
Good thing about pairs cricket is that each pair will get 4 overs (as a pair) regardless of how many times they're out. Nothing worse than someone really looking forward to playing and then only facing one or two balls (or even none).
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Completely agree. We're somewhere in the middle competitive wise. Last year's mixed under 8s were a proper little team, and my daughter loved it. This year they've moved up to hardball, and we're trying to a get a core team together who can all play properly and know what they are doing with the hope of some moderate success - whatever that is.
I'm excited about the under 12s girls team for her as it should show her some role models on the girls side, and what she should be aiming for.
Her first hardball game of the season was against Malden Wanderers, who take things pretty seriously. Under 10 mixed and not pairs - out is out. She did well and was happy with 4 runs from her 6 balls and a wicket bowling. Couple of the boys got golden ducks - plenty of tears. I'm yet to see a kid get out first ball and not cry in these games. Pairs is much less stressful for all involved.
Scrabble
Aha! See you then!