AussieDominance
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hahaha your top order must be pretty bad
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Your English Cricket Season: 2008
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AussieDominance
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why dont you switch the lower order with the top order?
AussieDominance
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I suggest maybe if you looked at the performances of the last 10 years as an average that might be fair
Kweek
Cricketer Of The Year
2nd XI spinner injured himself friday(we played footy in the rain)
so It was either get another med pacer from the 3rd team..or me...they picked me
didnt expect anything from it, maybe bowl an over or 3...and bat 10(that I did get right)
then i took a wicket in my 2nd over :S and had some good lbw shouts...keeper dropped 3..slips fell short, I came a inch short...bowled my 10 full trottle on debut in 2nds 1/34 in 10
so It was either get another med pacer from the 3rd team..or me...they picked me
didnt expect anything from it, maybe bowl an over or 3...and bat 10(that I did get right)
then i took a wicket in my 2nd over :S and had some good lbw shouts...keeper dropped 3..slips fell short, I came a inch short...bowled my 10 full trottle on debut in 2nds 1/34 in 10
Neil Pickup
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Mixed day today...
Exeter University 4th XI 224-5 [40] Bristow 108*
Yelverton CC 122-7 [40]
I bowled my first eight overs, 0/20 (including two dropped catches and my first maiden in seven years), then - entirely due to my inability to count, bowled another that went for eleven as I had every fielder in the ring and bowled long hops. My mood wasn't lightened as a series of random bowlers chipped in with wickets...
Earlier, I had fielded for Yelverton for 31 overs (making a total of 71 in the day). I thoroughly enjoyed myself, particularly sledging my own team mates from slip as they struggled to score off a thirteen-year old. Unfortunately I ended up dropping one catch twice, coming over my shoulder as I dived forwards.
Exeter University 4th XI 224-5 [40] Bristow 108*
Yelverton CC 122-7 [40]
I bowled my first eight overs, 0/20 (including two dropped catches and my first maiden in seven years), then - entirely due to my inability to count, bowled another that went for eleven as I had every fielder in the ring and bowled long hops. My mood wasn't lightened as a series of random bowlers chipped in with wickets...
Earlier, I had fielded for Yelverton for 31 overs (making a total of 71 in the day). I thoroughly enjoyed myself, particularly sledging my own team mates from slip as they struggled to score off a thirteen-year old. Unfortunately I ended up dropping one catch twice, coming over my shoulder as I dived forwards.
no1_gangsta_786
U19 Cricketer
Is there anyone here that plays for RACS in Eltham?
no1_gangsta_786
U19 Cricketer
What is ur full name and wot team do you play for?
Barney Rubble
International Coach
Same as me. One game as a specialist bat at number nine. Average of 6, with an SR of 50.00.Anna said:Well, what a great season I had.....1 match. That's it. Evil weather!! Am going home tomorrow, so no more til next season. Poo
At least it was my first ever season with a 100% catching record.
Neil Pickup
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Bristow ton accounts for Yelverton
Exeter Uni IV 224 for 5 (Harry Bristow 108, Charlie Morris 2-43) beat Yelverton Bohemians 122 for 7 (Sam Yaxley 2-4, Will Emeny 2-11) by 102 runs
The Fourth XI’s incredibly inconsistent season continued on Bank Holiday Monday in the rustic settings of Yelverton Bohemians CC, near Plymouth, as they recorded a comfortable 102-run win – but not without driving their captain to the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Having taken the scenic route over Dartmoor, Neil Pickup promptly lost the toss (again), and the record books show that his last successful call was on May 18, 2005. Nevertheless, the hosts elected to insert Exeter, and then realise they had just ten players.
Following a brief stint from Will Emeny – and an even briefer cameo with the bat from Sam Yaxley - Pickup stepped into the breach for 31 completely unnecessary overs in the field, and was bizarrely stationed at slip for an extended period. Jamie Bill perished, slapping to cover, to unite John Biddick and Harry Bristow for a productive third-wicket stand, until Biddick prised the dubious honour of “batsman dismissed by youngest bowler” away from Yaxley as he saw Charlie Morris (13 years and 327 days) knock back his off stump.
Rob Woodward missed a straight ball, Emeny ensured that Biddick wouldn’t be the only one dismissed by a small boy, before Pickup, having made frequent attempts to run out his own team mates, resorted to sledging them. The effect was slightly dampened a handful of overs later as he spilled a difficult chance from Bristow, charging backwards towards third man [honestly]. Bristow, having already been reprieved early on – shelled on the boundary by Geraint “it’s Welsh for **** Hands” Heath in Morris’ first over – ended unbeaten on 109. Alongside Dave Needham (20* including 18 singles), the students added 104 for the sixth wicket.
Following a fantastic tea (we’re definitely going back next year), the question now turned to whether Pickup could end a barren spell with the ball that pre-dated the barren spell with the coin (2 May 2004) and actually get someone out. The answer, unfortunately, was no.
Luke Rosier took a wicket on debut and Tom Pugh added two further victims as Yelverton fell well behind the asking rate, but all that Pickup found was frustration (and more dropped catches, it’s now five this season, plus a missed stumping, and a refusal, and that time the bails didn’t fall off). Even a ninth over, caused predominantly by innumeracy brought on by the frustration of watching Yaxley get someone out – courtesy of a smart slip catch from Bristow – couldn’t bring anything more than figures damage. Eight overs for 20 became nine for 31 as 14-year-old Tom Watkins (who Jamie Bill had earlier seemingly tried to kill with a series of beamers) took advantage of the slightly reckless field placings.
With Emeny having chipped in with two wickets, Yaxley added a second victim – castling the unlucky Watkins as the schoolboy aimed to plant the gentle medium pace over the sightscreen – and further confirming his captain’s hatred for bowling averages.
Exeter Uni IV 224 for 5 (Harry Bristow 108, Charlie Morris 2-43) beat Yelverton Bohemians 122 for 7 (Sam Yaxley 2-4, Will Emeny 2-11) by 102 runs
The Fourth XI’s incredibly inconsistent season continued on Bank Holiday Monday in the rustic settings of Yelverton Bohemians CC, near Plymouth, as they recorded a comfortable 102-run win – but not without driving their captain to the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Having taken the scenic route over Dartmoor, Neil Pickup promptly lost the toss (again), and the record books show that his last successful call was on May 18, 2005. Nevertheless, the hosts elected to insert Exeter, and then realise they had just ten players.
Following a brief stint from Will Emeny – and an even briefer cameo with the bat from Sam Yaxley - Pickup stepped into the breach for 31 completely unnecessary overs in the field, and was bizarrely stationed at slip for an extended period. Jamie Bill perished, slapping to cover, to unite John Biddick and Harry Bristow for a productive third-wicket stand, until Biddick prised the dubious honour of “batsman dismissed by youngest bowler” away from Yaxley as he saw Charlie Morris (13 years and 327 days) knock back his off stump.
Rob Woodward missed a straight ball, Emeny ensured that Biddick wouldn’t be the only one dismissed by a small boy, before Pickup, having made frequent attempts to run out his own team mates, resorted to sledging them. The effect was slightly dampened a handful of overs later as he spilled a difficult chance from Bristow, charging backwards towards third man [honestly]. Bristow, having already been reprieved early on – shelled on the boundary by Geraint “it’s Welsh for **** Hands” Heath in Morris’ first over – ended unbeaten on 109. Alongside Dave Needham (20* including 18 singles), the students added 104 for the sixth wicket.
Following a fantastic tea (we’re definitely going back next year), the question now turned to whether Pickup could end a barren spell with the ball that pre-dated the barren spell with the coin (2 May 2004) and actually get someone out. The answer, unfortunately, was no.
Luke Rosier took a wicket on debut and Tom Pugh added two further victims as Yelverton fell well behind the asking rate, but all that Pickup found was frustration (and more dropped catches, it’s now five this season, plus a missed stumping, and a refusal, and that time the bails didn’t fall off). Even a ninth over, caused predominantly by innumeracy brought on by the frustration of watching Yaxley get someone out – courtesy of a smart slip catch from Bristow – couldn’t bring anything more than figures damage. Eight overs for 20 became nine for 31 as 14-year-old Tom Watkins (who Jamie Bill had earlier seemingly tried to kill with a series of beamers) took advantage of the slightly reckless field placings.
With Emeny having chipped in with two wickets, Yaxley added a second victim – castling the unlucky Watkins as the schoolboy aimed to plant the gentle medium pace over the sightscreen – and further confirming his captain’s hatred for bowling averages.
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Bob Bamber
U19 12th Man
Played Torquay Under 15's Last Week
Torquay 114/5
I Bowled two average overs
Stoke Gabriel 80/8 of 20. I was in at 11
Torquay 114/5
I Bowled two average overs
Stoke Gabriel 80/8 of 20. I was in at 11
Neil Pickup
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Torquay's U14 keeper is outrageously good from my experience - batted fifty overs for their second XI against Exeter last summer. That bored the hell out of me.
Bob Bamber
U19 12th Man
Have you played against Matt Hickie?Neil Pickup said:
Neil Pickup
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No, have heard of him though - he was part of the Devon U15 squad in South Africa last winter and I'd guess is virtually certain to go back again next time around.
I'm not sure which age group East Devon side I'm running next year yet - or even if I'm running one - so I may end up seeing something before long.
In the meantime, I need to find a club to play for come July, as it's becoming increasingly apparent that all the kids I've spent the last two years coaching are now all better than me and above me in the Exeter III pecking order.
I'm not sure which age group East Devon side I'm running next year yet - or even if I'm running one - so I may end up seeing something before long.
In the meantime, I need to find a club to play for come July, as it's becoming increasingly apparent that all the kids I've spent the last two years coaching are now all better than me and above me in the Exeter III pecking order.
Neil Pickup
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Cracking game tonight at the County Ground...
Exeter U12 191-3 [20.0]
Honiton U12 22 [12.0]
Thank God we lost the toss.
Exeter U12 191-3 [20.0]
Honiton U12 22 [12.0]
Thank God we lost the toss.