Cricket Thread

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Badger May 2017 2:45pm, 5 May 2017 8,365 posts	0 Badger Can't do that, I cracked a rib laughing at Pakistan yesterday.
Diogenes May 2017 7:28pm, 5 May 2017 22,810 posts	0 Diogenes Watching the highlights, cringing hugely at Boycott's slaughtering of the Irish batsmen.
ThorntonRunner May 2017 12:51pm, 12 May 2017 1,333 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Son's team cut loose during cup game last night, and I was able to sit on the cover boundary and watch a pull shot soar through the air to the square leg boundary and the bonnet of my car!!
ThorntonRunner May 2017 1:07pm, 12 May 2017 1,334 posts	0 ThorntonRunner It was a rather one-sided affair (Thursday league cup 1st round so 1st div vs 3rd div). We scored 180+ in our 18 overs, and the opposition were 50 odd for 6 in the 15th at about 8:40 and it was getting murky. Quick single taken and the stumps thrown down at the bowlers end, (league) umpire gives batsman out. As batsman trudges back to pavilion, umpire turns to bowler "he was in but I've had enough of this"...
CornishEva May 2017 1:27pm, 12 May 2017 3,627 posts	0 CornishEva This was entertaining yesterday bbc.co.uk
Wriggling Snake May 2017 2:06pm, 12 May 2017 15,040 posts	0 Wriggling Snake He should have caught it.
Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) May 2017 2:16pm, 12 May 2017 14,803 posts	0 Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) A real man would have headed it back out.....
makkem May 2017 9:24pm, 22 May 2017 744 posts	0 makkem ThorntonRunner, I know the feeling. Having qualified as an Umpire, I have now "stood" in three games this season. On Saturday just gone (20 May) by the time the game finished and I'd driven home it was 20:45. All for what was originally due to be a 45 overs game. Due a few showers it ended up as 35 overs each.
makkem May 2017 9:26pm, 22 May 2017 745 posts	0 makkem Oh - forgot to add Umpires don't get paid either. Apparently we get "expenses" at the end of the season & no mileage allowance
ThorntonRunner May 2017 10:38pm, 23 May 2017 1,344 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Umpires for the Leicestershire league get £40 each for a 45 over Saturday game