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Jan 2021
9:46am, 13 Jan 2021
23,314 posts
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Nicholls595
Can you still buy linseed oil and blanco whitener?
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Jan 2021
9:47am, 13 Jan 2021
2,287 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Oh my. I wouldn't even be able to confidently locate all of my kit as eldest son has benefitted from the odd donation and I haven't played for 5 years now, rightly so. I could still bat but my fielding retired early and I didn't want to be that guy.
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Jan 2021
9:48am, 13 Jan 2021
2,288 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Certainly can buy linseed, Nico
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Jan 2021
9:48am, 13 Jan 2021
23,315 posts
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Nicholls595
I have no kit of any description. Last "real" cricket was 20 years ago. Did play a couple of seasons of pub cricket about 15 years ago.
But, in my head......
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Jan 2021
9:58am, 13 Jan 2021
2,289 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Oh sh*t. Maybe I couldn't still bat. Good point, Nico. Surely my trusted square cut would be last to go.
As an aside, as a kid I used to practice in our garage, throwing the ball across the width and playing the ball principally through point to cover to score runs across to a wall that was about 10 metres away as the 'boundary'. Playing through square leg would result in destruction of dad's home brew bottles and as a result was rare. I couldn't change sides because there were things in the way that way...
As a result, my 'v' when batting was extra cover to backward point and I scored heavily there. Happy memories of time on my own as a teen 
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Jan 2021
10:08am, 13 Jan 2021
3,555 posts
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Goofee
Blimey Greg, just reading that has given me crippling DOMS
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Jan 2021
10:09am, 13 Jan 2021
23,316 posts
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Nicholls595
I remember when I first started playing indoor cricket back in the late 80's, I kept getting caught off the net off every short ball. I could not stop myself hooking and pulling.
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Jan 2021
11:40am, 13 Jan 2021
29,727 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
I still have a bat...last game 8 maybe 9 years ago...
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Jan 2021
11:43am, 13 Jan 2021
29,728 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
My catching and fielding was good...later years I could drop anything. Batting I could hang about with a rarely used cover drive...bowling...I reckon my dibbley dobblers would get wickets...I can move it both ways...that's enough for a lot of batsmen.
my mobile tried to change dobblers to cobblers....is it telling me something?
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Jan 2021
11:44am, 13 Jan 2021
23,319 posts
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Nicholls595
Anyone up for organising a Fetch Wild Geese XI when all this Covid is behind us?
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