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Mar 2020
9:47pm, 26 Mar 2020
19,918 posts
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Nicholls595
Flukiest boundary
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Mar 2020
9:48pm, 26 Mar 2020
19,919 posts
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Nicholls595
Last recorded innings in them spikey rubber wraparound batting gloves with no palm
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Mar 2020
10:36pm, 26 Mar 2020
17,241 posts
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Chrisity
I had the lowest highest score, 14, of anyone scoring over 100 runs and therefore getting in Wisden. That would be of about 1000 batsmen, there are around 150 schools.
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Mar 2020
10:41pm, 26 Mar 2020
1,551 posts
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flyingfinn
Having caught up on the thread I'd just fetched the 1972 Wisden off the shelf and was looking to see if I could spot it. I'd started with lowest average with over a 100 runs but a guy at Alleynes had pipped you to that one 
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Mar 2020
7:49am, 27 Mar 2020
3,123 posts
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Goofee
No doubt that 14 was made on a terrible, corrugated surface, the top order had folded in craven fashion, you manipulated the strike to protect the bunnies as far as possible and were left not out at the end. Worth at least a 50 in normal conditions. Probably.
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Mar 2020
8:14am, 27 Mar 2020
19,921 posts
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Nicholls595
LOL Goofers
I once batted out 20 odd overs to secure a losing draw against Selston* after a spectacular middle order collapse. I was on 30 odd when we shut up shop and ended up 50 not out. My partner in crime was a bowler** who usually played in the second XI and was making his first team debut, batting at 9, he had all the gear and had a decent defensive technique, but was so nervous I could see him shaking from 22 yards away. He finished 1 not out but we got the draw and his knock earned him the Most Outstanding Performance at the end of season awards night***
* Still not sure how, Selston were rubbish
** Dave Pepper, well batted mate and love all the sweat bands
*** It was a poor season
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Mar 2020
8:31am, 27 Mar 2020
3,124 posts
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Goofee
Sort of the opposite way round, my opening partner and I once had one of those days when neither of us could get a run. Every time we got one out of the middle it went straight to a fielder, otherwise we were mis-timing or playing and missing. The only plus was that we didn't get out. By the time we had stumbled our way to 31-0 the impatient jeers from our team-mates were reaching fever-pitch. We had a between overs meeting and agreed we'd both had enough of it all and it was hit out or get out time. In didn't take long before we were both back in the dressing room. Our colleagues efforts then resulted in a score of 50 odd all out. Of course, we still got the blame...
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Mar 2020
8:53am, 27 Mar 2020
1,552 posts
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flyingfinn
Selston! That's a place that brings back memories. Around 77 we went there for an U17s match with a very young and frankly rather callow side (for that age group) and came up against a team that were all at work, largely in the coal mining industry that then dominated the district. The pitch was hard and a bit rough and we largely spent our (short) innings trying to avoid ending up in A+E and got completely intimidated and annihilated. Most definitely a case of men against boys but a useful lesson to us all.
Roll on two years and largely the same team had developed into a very strong U17 team that made the semi-finals of a national competition. Along the way in that season we returned to Selston with long memories and exacted our revenge in a comprehensive manner.
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Mar 2020
8:54am, 27 Mar 2020
19,922 posts
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Nicholls595
Sunday friendly match away against Ruddington. The strip was snooker table green and the home team provided a brand new ball with a seam an inch thick. The first team had been fixtureless the day before so the Sunday side was stronger than normal. Despite this, the home skipper won the toss and batted. We had them about 12 - 7 after 4 overs so our captain threw the ball to an 11 year old leg spinner who had never bowled for us before, assuming it would help Ruddington make a game of it. He took the last 3 wickets in his first over and they were all out for 14.
Despite reversing the batting order, we knocked them off in a couple of overs. The decision was made to have an early tea, then mix up the teams to play a "beer match". During tea, the opposition changed their mind and got changed and f*cked off home.
We were back home by about 4 o'clock.
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Mar 2020
9:29am, 27 Mar 2020
46,652 posts
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Diogenes
I never played cricket at school, on account of having no ability. I bowled one ball in PE and the PE teacher called for someone else to bowl the next. However, In my twenties I began playing to make up numbers in a struggling team run by a football mate. Over the next few years, I played Saturdays and Sundays as the club went from strength to strength and even formed a second XI (of which I was a natural member). Slowly, my skills improved until I was not quite completely inept in all areas. I even kept wicket from time to time. I was noted for my ability to dive in the gulley: sometimes I would even stop the ball. However, I never scored many runs, hardly ever getting into double figures, and had a top score of 19 for years. Then I had my golden weekend.
Coming in at number 6 or 7 for the Saturday second team, I made 46 before being accused of jug avoidance. My sweep shot was particularly effective against some leg side bowling. The next day, a sleepy Sunday afternoon in the shadow of Hampton Court, I made an unbeaten 59, taking advantage of some decidedly average bowling (it was like facing myself) and a very high level of confidence to whack the ball all over the place like I knew what I was doing. Most of this was in partnership with a guy called Greg who weighed well-over 20St, making quick singles an impossibility.
105 runs in two innings over 2 days. I bought a jug afterwards, and smoked a cigar, but I never got anywhere near again.
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