Things you used to get in old-time cricket ...

[Noble One]

Sightscreens inside the field of play.

 

[TNT]

Good looking female streakers.

 

[Burgey]

Sightscreens inside the field of play.

Yes!

Made this possible.

 

[benchmark00]

- Fans running onto the field to celebrate a batting milestone.
- White, picket fences, and
- similarly, no ropes


The last time I remember a fan running onto the field was Greg Ritchie during SWaugh's 200 in 95.

Sehwag's ODI 200.

 

[stumpski]

- The random return of a name player several years after their previous FC game (Underwood, Illingworth, Alan Butcher, etc)

I recall Ken Higgs coming back to the Leicester side several years after his last outing - he must have been in his late 40s - and taking something like 5-20. And Phil Edmonds doing something similar.

 

[Hurricane]

Kids banging beers cans together to chant Hadlee
TV camera crews seeking out the hottest chicks in the crowd to show in between overs
Going to the ground and getting a mince pie instead of a curry or a pizza
Roped off drinking sections on the hill which just served to concentrate all the drunken louts in one space
Boundaries going back to the fence instead of a rope
No one sliding beside the ball to pick it up.

 

[Flem274*]

TV camera crews seeking out the hottest chicks in the crowd to show in between overs

South Africa

 

[Riggins]

I feel its probably the alcoholic in me just complaining but the one thing I miss the most is being able to buy a full strength beer at the cricket.

too ****ing true.

 

[Flametree]

Batsmen being given out lbw, and you know, walking off....

Going back further, wickets falling accompanied by a gentle appeal or celebration, the bowler stopping before walking down to meet his teammates, also walking up to him. One or two teammates might perhaps shake the bowler's hand or give him a pat on the shoulder....

 

[Hurricane]

Batsmen being given out lbw, and you know, walking off....

Going back further, wickets falling accompanied by a gentle appeal or celebration, the bowler stopping before walking down to meet his teammates, also walking up to him. One or two teammates might perhaps shake the bowler's hand or give him a pat on the shoulder....

I remember Coney administering many pats on the butt.

 

[slowfinger]

Over-rates above 16
Full crowds
Spectators running onto the pitch
Bowling dominating games
Long-haired fast bowlers
(someone already mentioned this) big blocks on your feet that took games to break in!

 

[benchmark00]

too ****ing true.

Back in the day you were allowed to take grog into the match (1 case per person maximum).

Heard stories of blokes walking up the street to the SCG on the morning of a test carrying their beers in one of those old foam eskies, only for it to inevitably break up just near the entrance and the blokes doing everything in their power to hold them together.

And if you wore anything other than stubbies shorts and a pair of thongs you were rightly bashed.

Those were the days.

 

[wpdavid]

Drums

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I do miss the pitch invasions and also the golden duck on screen.

 

[uvelocity]

people who looked like benchmark getting bashed

 

[Daemon]

An English team that was actually fully English

 

[Shri]

An English team that was actually fully English

Was a rare occurrence even then.

 

[Pothas]

An English team that was actually fully English

When was that?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Was a rare occurrence even then.

Yeah, given how many of our great & good were born abroad (Gubby Allen, Jardine, Freddy Brown, Cowdrey, Dexter, Woolmer, Pringle, Edmonds, etc) going way back to pre-WW2 days I guess an entirely English (defined as native born and raised) has been historically rare even before the recent influxes from the Caribbean and Southern Africa.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

You forgot Lamb.