Pavel Florin

[James90]

Has he committed a crime? That can be the only reason I can think of.

Travelling to Australia to play cricket for a club whose season ends in March is not the same thing as entering as a tourist for a maximum stay of 3 months.

Is my guess.

 

[Daemon]

I mean it's cool that they called him over for a few games but surely he wasn't going to play the whole season. The novelty would probably get old about 3 overs in.

 

[Burgey]

Happy to say my friend Pavel’s visa has now been granted

 

[GotSpin]

Just saw a video of him taking a wicket on the weekend too

 

[cnerd123]

Just saw a video of him taking a wicket on the weekend too

Can't drop a tasty tidbit like that on us without sharing said video

 

[cnerd123]

Found the video on Pavel's twitter:

https://twitter.com/PavelFlorin13/status/1196008630148984832

 

[GoodAreasShane]

I mean it's cool that they called him over for a few games but surely he wasn't going to play the whole season. The novelty would probably get old about 3 overs in.

I took 4 on the weekend FFS, if the standard is similar to the league I play in he should be fine.

It isn't exactly Melbourne first grade

 

[Burgey]

My good friend Pavel now has a Stick Cricket profile. The man is a cult hero par excellence.

 

[thierry henry]

What grade was he playing?

As bad as his bowling is, when I watched the footage of his wicket in grade cricket I realised he actually bowls a lot like a guy in my team. This guy is a former bowler (although mostly a batsman) in premier cricket too. He isn't as uncoordinated as Florin but basically bowls very slow seam-up off 2 steps and supposedly gets exaggerated slow swing and "dip".

 

[Burgey]

He's playing really low grades mate. It doesn't look like grade cricket to me, more park stuff. I'm only saying that based on the physique of the fella he got out and the fielders, mind you. You wouldnt see someone in that nick in a grade club unless they were the 55 year old stalwart who's out of retirement to captain 5th grade and mentor the young blokes.

 

[thierry henry]

He's playing really low grades mate. It doesn't look like grade cricket to me, more park stuff. I'm only saying that based on the physique of the fella he got out and the fielders, mind you. You wouldnt see someone in that nick in a grade club unless they were the 55 year old stalwart who's out of retirement to captain 5th grade and mentor the young blokes.

Ah right, yeah I sort of knew that "grade cricket" wasn't the right terminology and figured it was a lower level. The lollipop bowling and the bloke missing it reminded me a lot of the grade I play lol

 

[Burgey]

Yes it all looked like what I was last playing full time about four years ago when I realised it looked a bit like that footage lol

 

[Teuton]

Pavel joined Brian Lara on The Front Bar (Aus sport comedy tv show) tonight.

He's come a long way

 

[Prince EWS]

Ah right, yeah I sort of knew that "grade cricket" wasn't the right terminology and figured it was a lower level. The lollipop bowling and the bloke missing it reminded me a lot of the grade I play lol

Sometimes people who have never played cricket before get called up as emergency replacements in grades higher than the one he's playing. It's just straight up weekend club cricket.

It's serious cricket between established clubs (ie. not just a bunch of blokes meeting in a park with plastic stumps) but yeah it's a low standard. Every chance you've played higher.

 

[thierry henry]

Sometimes people who have never played cricket before get called up as emergency replacements

Literally my team this season. Almost every week we've started fielding with 8 blokes, had guys rocking up to field in random clothes, and even had a guy who has never played cricket before turn up wearing his high-vis after work lol. And we're winning 40-over games like 340 vs 70 all out.

It's serious cricket between established clubs (ie. not just a bunch of blokes meeting in a park with plastic stumps) but yeah it's a low standard. Every chance you've played higher.

You can't really make the same delineation in NZ because there's really only one tier of club cricket. You have the 6 first class sides, then you have the various provinces (represented by Hawke Cup sides) and then the clubs within the provinces. In terms of the hierarchy of grades I'm actually only 5 grades away from the Black Caps but I'm playing with guys in high vis against 14 year olds who can't hit the pitch.

 

[Chewie]

I've never played cricket before, maybe I should think about joining something at that level haha

 

[Prince EWS]

I've never played cricket before, maybe I should think about joining something at that level haha

If you want to play regularly you'll get sent somewhere even lower first up. It's just that when someone decides they're too hungover on Saturday morning, calling up mates you only play winter sports and might be able to field decently is usually considered more proper than raiding your lower grades at that sort of short notice, unless you're a whole other category of cricket above that one.

But it's fun, you should do it!

 

[Daemon]

I've never played cricket before, maybe I should think about joining something at that level haha

Go for it

 

[Burgey]

Should definitely do it. Life is for living.

 

[cnerd123]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1352573879789740032