Cricket Thread

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rf_fozzy 22 Aug 1:55pm, 22 Aug 2024 22,920 posts	0 rf_fozzy Cricket is an expensive sport to play - which is why so many kids from low-to-middle income families can no longer afford to play and is partly the reason why it has become the preserve of private schools only. Speaking of which, I do wonder how much Alex Tudor is paid to be coach at whatever private school he works at.
Ocelot Spleens 22 Aug 2:02pm, 22 Aug 2024 39,506 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens It's colder than yesterday!
rf_fozzy 22 Aug 2:06pm, 22 Aug 2024 22,921 posts	0 rf_fozzy rf_fozzy wrote:Cricket is an expensive sport to play - which is why so many kids from low-to-middle income families can no longer afford to play and is partly the reason why it has become the preserve of private schools only. Speaking of which, I do wonder how much Alex Tudor is paid to be coach at whatever private school he works at. I do remember rocking up at a club when I decided I wanted to play a little more serious cricket and was a little surprised when they looked at me a bit funny when I said I didn't have pads and a bat etc. Up to that point I'd been playing friendly/local league 20-over stuff with a couple of teams. I had a box and that was about it. I might have asked how anyone was supposed to join and see if they liked it or not, which elicited some more strange looks! In the end, although I borrowed pads for the first few games, I ended up buying pads and gloves etc, but never bought a bat as they were always too expensive (and that was when they were ~£150)
57.5 Degrees of Pain 22 Aug 2:31pm, 22 Aug 2024 20,497 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain It was not an expensive game in Glasgow. All club kit, slightly rough and ready club grounds, distinctly rough municipal grounds. Main expense was new balls.
rf_fozzy 22 Aug 2:36pm, 22 Aug 2024 22,922 posts	0 rf_fozzy 57.5 Degrees of Pain wrote:distinctly rough municipal grounds. When I stopped playing about 10 years ago, those were disappearing rapidly (and had been a long term trend). The pitch I first learned to play cricket on no longer exists (well where it was is still there, but the council haven't maintained as a cricket ground for nearly 20 years).
Nicholls595 22 Aug 2:41pm, 22 Aug 2024 32,081 posts	0 Nicholls595 When I first started playing (late 70's) every club had a kit bag. Very rare for someone to own their own pads. Bats lasted for years, sanded down and re-oiled every winter. And long, long before helmets.
Nicholls595 22 Aug 2:42pm, 22 Aug 2024 32,082 posts	0 Nicholls595 When helmets first appeared in club cricket, we used to aim at them.
fetcheveryone 22 Aug 2:50pm, 22 Aug 2024 31,002 posts	0 fetcheveryone My first club (Blackwood Town CC) used to have a bunch of kit that people could use.
Cerrertonia 22 Aug 2:51pm, 22 Aug 2024 21,685 posts	0 Cerrertonia I only ever played for work teams and at university, very few people had their own bats or kit.
rf_fozzy 22 Aug 2:53pm, 22 Aug 2024 22,923 posts	0 rf_fozzy Yeah, the friendly team when I grew up was the same with the shared kit, as was the staff CC at the Uni. It was only when I went to a league club that it was unusual. Even the bottom team (they had 3) didn't usually take any shared kit.