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Third Test - England v West Indies (Old Trafford)
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The Ghost of Arca
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Of all the people for that catch to go to
Jesus
chopsfc007
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Yeh no harm in looking and training until competitive, where would be best to look at for more information
mackembhoy
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I've barely played since school and I'm 27. Maybe 10-20 times in 10 years.
Depends on what you do. Bowling is quite easy to get back into a rhythm. My batting has been atrocious when I used to be quite handy.
Problem for me is I like to be in game and fielding is utterly shit. So it's a tough slog when you could be doing something else on a Saturday. Then committing to that every weekend is a difficult thing to do.
As I've played sporadically I've sometimes not even got a bowl and so put me off playing more. Despite being better than some I've played with.
chopsfc007
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Even I could if caught that
I don’t live in the north east sadly. Post a thread on this board. Someone will have ideas
chopsfc007
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I get a really bad rep on here mate, and tbh I did make excuses when this place had a team but some were being bellends
Just look at your local club then. They’ll have a play cricket site or Facebook page or something. See what they offer.
chopsfc007
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Always preferred batting when with my mates never got much of a chance with school as the teachers favourites got to bat higher, always fancied learning to bowl spin, I can't throw far but always enjoyed fielding as wicket keeper
Yeh am on seaburn so there will be a few about
Cricket clubs can be very snobby places. I played midweek cricket for my old employer and there were snobby divisions within the team based on your ability.
I left that team for a number of reasons and reached out to all of my local clubs via email - offered my services as a net bowler, happy to make up the numbers in the 3rd XI etc and not one of them even replied
Some are definitely. Some are decent and just want players
chopsfc007
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Do you play for anyone now this is my main fear people being totally snobby arseholes if you are terrible,
I don't. I retired when I left my last team and got no responses from local teams. My back isn't up to it anymore so I had to reluctantly accept my fate
CraigyLee
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they weren’t like
chopsfc007
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You weren't mate I don't think I'm not going to name certain people water under the bridge now anyway, what happened to the team anyway
My bank as well as many other things are fucked lol but my diets getting sorted so going to get exercise started
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CraigyLee
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the smb team operated out of Houghton then a fair few of the core lads went to rise littletown cricket club out of the ashes and that took a fair chunk of their time up ... think the last social games that was organised on here were about 5 years ago
no idea if the social league that the smb played in is still going
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