Backyard Cricket Thread

[Noobz0r]

All things backyard cricket.

Had a great strip at my family home, bumpy, slanted, unpredictable. Even more so once watered. Bought a place of my own and it doesn't quite have the potential. The fences are too short and the grass too small, though I think I've finally got a plan.

Anyway, I digress. I had an ulterior motive. I have an away game planned at a mates house who disallows electrical tape. I feel this greatly advantages the batsman due to tennis ball bounce and slow variable bounce, as opposed to the true test that is pace (due to weight) and swing. He's claiming home field advantage, I'm calling cowardice and CA-like bias.

Inb4 shit backyard batsmen claim it's "unfair".

 

[Taylor]

Bare balls spin better anyway, a nice tuft and you can pitch them wide for the spin back and variable bounce to bring in the auto wicky.

 

[corbies]

If this friend is thorne89 then yes it is a cowardly act

 

[Power Raid]

Bare balls spin better anyway, a nice tuft and you can pitch them wide for the spin back and variable bounce to bring in the auto wicky.

"auto wicky".........I feel 30 years younger hearing that term

 

[HugeJohnson]

My dad's place is a 32 acre property, we had a wicked set up in one of the paddocks. We had a full size pitch (carpet mat) on top of some gravel. It didn't provide consistent bounce and every now and again you'd get one jag back in to you or bounce real low or real high but that was all part of the fun. We used real cricket balls and fully padded up etc, none of this tennis ball mucking around stuff. My brother, my step brother and I would play out there nearly every weekend, sometimes from the time we got up until it got dark. One bowler, one batsman, one fielder and the trampoline was set up as a wicket-keeper so the ball didn't roll down the hill. We had fences to the left and right that were the boundaries. Remember making 300* one day, I was hungry for more but they got sick of bowling to me and went inside leaving me to contemplate what could have been. Those days were the best

 

[Torz]

Tape is a must.

thorne89 you're better than that.

 

[Taylor]

Auto wicky is great. Should be a hall of famer.

I have to bowl spin because of my size but I'm not aftaid of the fast ball from guys and a block goes for four. Spin is hard to get away

 

[Noobz0r]

I've always rated Torz.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Tape is a must.

thorne89 you're better than that.

Spoken like a true non-spin bowler.

It is my place! My rules!

If this friend is thorne89 then yes it is a cowardly act

Come at me cricket board.

 

[Torz]

Spoken like a true non-spin bowler.

It is my place! My rules!

I am a spin bowler. So nerr.

Tape ball bowls a hell of an arm ball.

 

[Noobz0r]

I am a spin bowler. So nerr.

Tape ball bowls a hell of an arm ball.

Exactly. Thank you. And tennis ball spin bowling needs to be too full. otherwise you get tennis ball bounce and consequently punished. Tape makes it a lottery in terms of spin and bounce, depending how it lands.

Tape creates uncertainty and variety for both spin and pace. My opponent clearly hasn't tried, or is incapable of using, taped balls.

 

[Taylor]

Or doesn't need to tape...

Tennis balls rise off a good length at just under nipple height. At the body that's gloved to the keeper.

Easy

 

[Torz]

Do you use anything for fielders?

We use a crazy catch layed on it's side, so it covers more ground. Usually stationed around short leg.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Sounds a lot like ball tampering to me. I'm deadly without having to do anything to the sacred tennis ball.

 

[Noobz0r]

Or doesn't need to tape...

Tennis balls rise off a good length at just under nipple height. At the body that's gloved to the keeper.

Easy

But it's such slow and predictable bounce that a quality batsman can find the time to smoke it

 

[Taylor]

But it's such slow and predictable bounce that a quality batsman can find the time to smoke it

He won't be able to pick the faster arm ball, too busy watching the bounce

 

[Noobz0r]

He won't be able to pick the faster arm ball, too busy watching the bounce

Consider this a challenge.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Just to show that I'm not a total traditionalist, here are the rules specific to my backyard (because THAT is the point, each backyard is different and as such different rules are made by the owner of said place) -

• If a bush/plant catches you, you are out.
• Hitting the back fence on the full is 6, if it bounces 4. The side fences are 4 on the full and 2 on the bounce.
• One hand one bounce, obviously. The walls/bricks around the lawn are a bounce.
• Over the fence is six and out. Again, obv.
• Auto wickey, none of this auto third slip rubbish.
• If the ball rebounds off the wall and hits the stumps you are out.
• Last innings of the day = runs worth double.
• Hitting the missus when she is sitting/watching/ignoring us is either ten runs or out. Entirely her decision.

 

[Torz]

A rule we have is that it can't be one-hand-one-bounce if it's a full toss. Has always worked quite fairly.

 

[Admiral Byng]

We lived on an actual quarter acre block. Stumps were set up in front of the shed, about 2-3m. Any edge that carried and hit the shed on the full was out (automatic wicky and slips).

We had games where the batsman was only allowed a stump - based on the Bradman example.
We had games where the bowler set fields on a felt board.

Usually just me and my brother. We played a lot of cricket at the local park with friend too. But normal rules applied there.

 

[Noobz0r]

They all seem like very traditional rules that the vast majority of pitches would have in place.

I would argue that most rules are standard in backyard.

 

[Taylor]

I like when you get bat on ball, it's a single and you have to swap to the opposite hand batting.

Obviously you stay on strike as a right handed if you hit a four six or two. But any bat = at least 1.

 

[Torz]

I like when you get bat on ball, it's a single and you have to swap to the opposite hand batting.

Obviously you stay on strike as a right handed if you hit a four six or two. But any bat = at least 1.

My brother tries to claim thick inside edges and the like.

"Well worked"

 

[Taylor]

Can you bat both left and right handed?

 

[Noobz0r]

Can you bat both left and right handed?

Loaded question.