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    One-Off Phenomena??

    Prince, that's because I am laaaazy. And I hardly ever get online these days :)
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    When Arguments Erupt

    When we played on the road, because it was generally impossible to mark a good crease, when you were running, you had to touch your bat either on the stumps (wheelie bin, fire hydrant cover), and when you finished running, you had to yell "safe", but only after your bat had touched the stumps or...
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    caught behind

    Yeah. We called it "behind and out." If we were playing in the driveway and the ball hit the garage door on the full, then you were out. If we were playing in the street, and we didn't have a wicket keeper (which was often, no-one wanted that job), and the ball went behind on the full, then...
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    The ball

    We used to tape the ball. Not so much to reduce the bounce, but to give it a bit of spin. Because we were all kids, our spin bowling was a bit substandard. Our rule regarding the tape on the ball was that if it started coming off midway through an over, you were able to fix it with, as someone...
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    One-Off Phenomena??

    No-one has any stories about this?? I can't believe it.
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    One-Off Phenomena??

    Does anyone have stories of how rules have formed around any odd one-off phenomena? Example: Once, a few years ago when we were playing with the neighbours in my driveway, my dad was having a bat. He hit the ball over the driveway, over the street, over the house across the street and into...
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    When Someone Gets Out

    Because there are never enough people playing to make up two teams, the oldest bats first, and while he's batting, its up to whoever wants to bat after him to call "i'm batting!". It carries on in this fashion until everyone has had a bat, thereby establishing a batting order. There's no real...
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    Where Do You Play?

    I live in a tight-knit cul-de-sac, so every summer evening, after an afternoon swim in a neighbours pool, someone would break out the stumps and we'd set up, either in my driveway, which was the biggest, and had the most easily visible creases, or on the road. We'd also get out the wheelie bin...
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    Electric Wicket Keeper

    We always called it "behind and out" because we were all to lazy to stand in the slips cordon. This rule was a bit of a bugger for people who had a difficult time grasping the concept of hitting the ball forward.
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    Tipsy Run

    We always called it tippety run. And since we didn't have a wicketkeeper, it was up to the batsman's (or woman's) own discretion on whether or not they had hit the ball. But we did have a ruling on it, and numerous times it got ****y batsmen out. :D

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