Your Weirdest Backyard Rule?

[lachlan43]

Having not actually played a decent game of backyard cricket since moving house, I'll go with what we had at my old house.

Driveway games: Top edging over the roof was 3 runs down to third man/fine leg.

Backyard games: Hitting the hot water system on the full was out, but hitting the concrete slab that it was on or hitting it on the bounce was automatically fielded, and applause from players and crowd alike for the good fielding before play could continue.

 

[Shri]

Batsman is given out if he does'nt hit the ball for 3 consecutive deliveries. A bit like baseball tbh.

 

[Incey]

Hmm, I suppose mine would me, in the pool (without coming off any other object like a wall etc) is out.

 

[spinwiz95]

We have something similar, but you have to run on the third delivery (thats where some dirty tactics come into play. We also play if the ball bounces twice and you then headbutt it the batter is out, however its best not to use this when playing with a hard cricket ball.

 

[kingdamo]

Hitting teachers at school got us a 12 .

 

[Jakester1288]

Hitting teachers at school got us a 12 .

Your school was in your backyard?

 

[kingdamo]

Your school was in your backyard?

Dense.

 

[kevinpietersen]

My wierd rule

I would make a rule were if u hit it through an open window u will get 100 runs (century)

 

[slowfinger]

If we hit a cut or pull shot twice(consecutively) to the gate/wall then you were out

 

[mat]

The wierdest(stupidest) rule i play with is that you are out if you hit it into the garden, which is on a right handers leg-side. Being only one metre behind the batter running the entirity of the pitch to the back 'boundary' it eliminates any flick shots of your 'pads', giving the bowler the luxury of bowling on leg stump all-day. Results in some pretty interesting shots being invented.

 

[neobuxadmin]

Our rules were scary ...No wicketkeeper, no shots onthe leg-side, if the ball hit any car directly ur out, if caught after one bounce your out, etc. etc.

 

[oitoitoi]

we had a lot of odd rules, but nothing as odd as the Mahesh rule. we had a mate called Mahesh who was a diabolically bad bowler, and in our yard cricket every person on your team bowled in succession, but the one exception was that you only had to give mahesh 1 over, we played 4 ball overs and anything less than 18 off a Mahesh over was considered a failure! yard cricket is the truest form of the game IMO, the real essence of it.

 

[the duckman]

when we play at the cricket club the rules go:
(a) you can either be caught, stumped, bowled, run out
(b) it's bat down so run outs/stumpings are a common occurance
(c) anything on the full is out other than the concrete ie, bins, poles, garden bed, the oval, the fence, the grass etc..
(d) it's one hand one bounce and its also two bounce headbutt makes for some interesting dives
(e) we have a keeper so no auto wicki, the batting order starts as bowler goes to batter keeper to bowler slip to keeper offside to slip legside to offside and batsman to legside
(f) no lbw's

the object really is survival especially with 15 odd people playing at times but has made for some great fun

 

[SpeedStar]

Our backyard cricket rules:
- To spinners you have to charge twice an over.
- We film each of us batting and see who has played better, next game that person bats first.
- LBW's, Catches, Stumpings, Double Hit ect.. all normal rules.

 

[kingkallis]

I used to play so much like Jimmy PADams back in 90s, when we were kids. So my cousins and other friends set the following rule :

Ball hit your legs thrice and you have to retire out

 

[rory2812]

Weirdest Rules

We had a couple
ONe was One hand one bounce was half out.
Another one was, when we were playing down the coast, if you hit it on the roof of the opposite apartments (only about 40 metres away) it was 100 runs.
Another rule at the coast was that if it landed in one of the garden patches(on the full) on the opposite aparments you were not out but if it didn't you were.

 

[morgieb]

We can't throw stuff when playing backyard cricket.

 

[Red]

We can't throw stuff when playing backyard cricket.

 

[Dan]

 

[Red]

We used to have the now politically incorrect "poofter" rule. If you fail to play a shot to more than "two balls" in a row, you were "out".