chris.hinton
International Captain
Some do, Some don't. My Brother did but only on a basic level
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*Official* Yorkshire CCC racism crisis thread
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chris.hinton
International Captain
The report mentions a Drinking Culture, This isn't going to change people work all week so will play cricket on Saturday and sink a few beers afterwards.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
If my observations around here are anything to go by, you're about as likely to remove the drinking culture from club cricket as you are from darts.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
One other aspect for State Schools is that so many playing fields have been sold off for housing in the last 40 years. My own school now only has a 1/3 of the pitches it had when I was there. I guess space is not such an issue in Australia. I played cricket in Primary and Secondary, but even then, most of our matches were against Private Schools (we actually had a really decent team but that was more because one of our PE Teachers was an ex County player).
I recently helped coach a Girls Team all the way through from U11's to U18's and after a while they started doing joint training sessions with the boys. It's sad to see, but the State School educated boys turned up without any skills, cricket was completely new to them. Great that they were there, but they were so far behind the Private boys, it's hard to imagine how so many could ever catch up.
I recently helped coach a Girls Team all the way through from U11's to U18's and after a while they started doing joint training sessions with the boys. It's sad to see, but the State School educated boys turned up without any skills, cricket was completely new to them. Great that they were there, but they were so far behind the Private boys, it's hard to imagine how so many could ever catch up.
Blenkinsop
U19 Vice-Captain
I was at secondary school in the UK back in the 1980s. There was no cricket in PE and the school team played a total of precisely two matches in the five years I was at the school. I was lucky that our village had a side that was welcoming to juniors.
Fast forward to the 2010s and my eldest was quite a promising cricketer. He was in the county setup age 10 but within a couple of years had been completely left behind by the private school kids. There was just no way to compete with the amount of coaching they received, year-round, and the facilities they had available.
What's interesting though is that although heavily coached and very confident private school kids dominated junior cricket in our part of the world, I don't think any of them went on to play professionally, whereas I can think of three or four state school children who did.
Fast forward to the 2010s and my eldest was quite a promising cricketer. He was in the county setup age 10 but within a couple of years had been completely left behind by the private school kids. There was just no way to compete with the amount of coaching they received, year-round, and the facilities they had available.
What's interesting though is that although heavily coached and very confident private school kids dominated junior cricket in our part of the world, I don't think any of them went on to play professionally, whereas I can think of three or four state school children who did.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
I think that's a good point. Talented Private School kids will probably have other options and expectations, University, strong networks into decent high paid jobs etc etc.
Talented State School kids would probably be more likely to try their hand at cricket full time if the opportunity arose, which is why not being able to introduce the sport to them in school is such a loss.
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
Where I come from that is called land grabbing. Call in the bulldozers and riot police
Niall
International Coach
Plenty of clubs rely on the takings when it comes to the pints also.
Some of the stuff in the report seems fine, but surely you can do all the good stuff and still have Eton V Harrow etc? I don't get how one solitary fixture boils the piss of so many people.
Chubb
International Regular
I think people find Eton v Harrow particularly egregious because it's the only school fixture held at Lords, they are the elite of the elite and have like 40+ of their own pitches between them. Even then I wouldn't necessarily begrudge them playing on the Nursery Ground given the history of the fixture, but they play in the main stadium.
thierry henry
International Coach
**** that mate. ABs are a bunch of toffs to me - perhaps more the fanbase than the players tbf. Went to a Super Rugby game a few years ago, very weird demographic. The Warriors and Kiwis represent the true working man of NZ.
chris.hinton
International Captain
Eton vs Harrow isn't on TV, Most Cricket fans don't give a toss and they have their day (s) and that's it. If the State School U20 final is at Lords then it's not an issue.
Eton vs Harrow is just one match
social
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
In my experience, the overwhelming majority of private school cricketers in Australia don’t play much grade & the reasoning is understandable
They play on first class facilities at school and there’s some cache associated with being in the first eleven
In grade, they have to work their way up the grades and start off playing at shitsville
It’s also not a social event unlike the atmosphere at many English clubs
Meanwhile, they’re mates are out having fun
Cricket is a very easy game to give up in Australia
Literally the worst man in cricket.
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RossTaylorsBox
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Lol this ****ing guy
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Surprised he didn't bring up his black friend Viv Richards.
duffer
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Lol, so Chappelli was right after allLiterally the worst man in cricket.
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Yeah, but I'm still astonished by how bad those comments are - to the point where I wondered if there was some sarcasm or satire that was going over my head.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Climate, diet, and coordination.Let's compare Australia and England at cricket. The UK population is roughly 3 times that of Australia.
Yet for the most part, they have a stronger cricket team than us - now why is that?
Is it because their population is just more talented at the game. Or could it be that the vast majority of their population have access to the game whereas here that is only available to a small % of the population.
Answers on a postcard please.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
??? Apart from bogans (and not that I have a problem with bogans - have a few bogan mates) no one in the South Island really follows league that much apart from watching the odd game on tv.