ozgooners winter cricket season 2008

[ozgooner]

so , i have started playin winter cricket . it is only a short off season (cricket is usually a summer sport here in oz) and there are eight 2 day games . the games are played on consecutive saturdays . our team is called "thirsty work" and so far we have played 3 matches . i think you'll be able to tell that i am a very ordinary batsman , but i am a fairly handy 2nd change bowler and 1st slip fieldsman .

match 1

1st innings thirsty work - 26 (ozgooner 4 runs)
1st innings pine rivers - 105 (ozgooner 0 for 16 off 3 overs + 1 catch)
2nd innings thirsty work - 278 (ozgooner 10 runs)
2nd innings pine rivers - 106 (ozgooner 1 for 11 off 4 overs)

match 2 (1st weekend rained out so it was a one day game)

innings of sanford - 128 (ozgooner 0 for 5 off 2 overs + 1 catch)
innings of thirsty work - 196 (ozgooner did not bat)


match 3 (1st weekend rained out so it was a one day game)

innings of thirsty work - 260 (ozgooner 0)
innings of ferny grove - 93 (ozgooner 1 for 8 off 2 overs)

[Reverend Gooner]

All out for 26!!! What the hell happened? I cannot believe you still came back to win the match.

Not bad bowling and fielding, how did you get your wicket?

[ozgooner]

All out for 26!!! What the hell happened? I cannot believe you still came back to win the match.

Not bad bowling and fielding, how did you get your wicket?

i don't know what happened in the first innings when we were all out for 26 , but we did only have 9 players and the bowler for pine rivers got all 8 wickets . he was a gun bowler who could swing it a mile .
my wicket in that game came courtesy of a slow ball which was popped up by the batsman for a very easy catch to short midwicket

[ozgooner]

match 4

1st innings rained out (gutted , coz it is one of the 2 grounds with a proper turf pitch)

[Andreys_Does_Simples]

I played cricket on the beach in India, them kids are fuckin wicket with the bat!

Long you been with your team?

[ozgooner]

I played cricket on the beach in India, them kids are fuckin wicket with the bat!

Long you been with your team?

this a new team for this season A.D.S. but i have been playin winter cricket (it's too f%%king hot in the summer to be standin in the field for 5 hours) for the past 3 seasons . a very long time ago i was playin junior cricket from under 11's until under 17's . i then discovered that i enjoyed drinkin and chasin skirt more , so i gave up for around 12 years until these last three seasons
i have been playin indoor cricket almost every year at least one comp for the last 10 years though .....


i do love me cricket (playin , watchin and talkin bout it)

[ozgooner]

match 4 (35 over match only , due to first day rain out)

southern spirit 115 (ozgooner 0 for 14 off 3 overs i dropped one catch )
thirsty work 2 out for 117 (ozgooner did not bat)

[ozgooner]

match 5 (35 over match only , due to first day rain out)

dans farmer trust (funny name eh) all out for 55 (ozgooner did not bowl)
thirsty work - i was promoted to first drop because of the small runchase and got out for 4 , got the runs with eight wickets spare . still undefeated

[ozgooner]

match 6

1st innings of thirsty work - all out for 166 (ozgooner 7 not out)
1st innings of full tossers - 5 for 122 (ozgooner 0 for 5 off 4 overs)

2nd innings rained out

[ozgooner]

match 7

everton park 1st innings - all out for 54 (ozgooner did not bowl , took one catch - a bloody screamer)
thursty work 1st innings 9 for 223 (ozgooner 16 runs and highest score this season)
everton park 2nd innings - all out for 166 (ozgooner 1 for 21 off 3 overs , one catch)

[ozgooner]

semi final


1st innings thursty work all out for 154 (ozgooner 13)
1st innings sanford all out for 91 (ozgooner did not bowl)
2nd innings thursty work 0 for 11

[goonersfan4life]

with all do respect, what is crickett...

[ozgooner]

with all do respect, what is crickett...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As4WC0IZWos


this short video will give you some idea , this is test cricket . it is played for 7 hours per day (with drinks breaks and lunch and tea breaks also) for 5 days . we only play 2 day games

[ozgooner]

i haven't updated this thread for a while and no probably cares anyway (understandable) but we dominated in the semi final . got to the grand final still undefeated and got rolled by a f***ing innings wasn't laughin at the time though . oh well there is always next year .