Highest Backyard Score!

[YOTC]

It was meant to be like Don Bradmans Backyard. With him hitting golf balls against a silo.

 

[silky-smooth]

It was meant to be like Don Bradmans Backyard. With him hitting golf balls against a silo.

I remember that. I got nowhere near the highest score ever on that.

 

[YOTC]

I was 20th once. The rest are cheats.

 

[silky-smooth]

I was 20th once. The rest are cheats.

I was about 100,000th once... best I could get. I sucked at it.

 

[wang]

Made 400 retired against my 10 y.o. brother in the backyard. I was 17. It was an innings of great concentration.

 

[Karbassiyoon]

in the schoolyard i scored my only fifty when i was 10.

given that only about three centuries and one double century were made in 2 years worth of school (years 3 and 4) that effort was quite good.

 

[rhino]

Computer Cricket - 150
Backyard - No Idea
Proper - 112*
Beach - 55

 

[captain boyd]

on a slightly dirrent note i once read that when micheal bevan was going to school in the ACT he once went an entire term without being dismissed in the play ground at school.

i think it was fairly std rules,tippetie run,no lbw,using a stick/piece of wood for bat,multiple tennis balls in play.

i think it was year 10 or 11.the quality of the attach is unknow althought it was reputabley a very flat concrete track!!

 

[Hodgey for Aus04]

Batting
Backyard-229
Computer- 479
School- 89*
Proper- 178*

Bowling
Backyard- 7/12
Computer- 9/2
School- 2/8
Proper- 7/22 (13 overs) Not bad for a spinner on a small ground

Most Balls lost- 20 in 2 weeks

 

[YOTC]

Id like to know what computer game you were playing. High scores, easy bowling.

 

[Deegle]

130 in my first innings at my mates place and then bowled him all out for 20 ( it was a 2 innings match: i sent him back in for the follow on after he went out for 15 after his first innings )

 

[Thunderstruck]

Made 521 on calculator cricket!

Backyard 354*
Street 134
Real 55

(I bat at 10, opening bowler, 8/42 bb there)

 

[Showbag]

Backyard- 100
Street- 50
Real- 22*
(I bat at no. 11)

BB: 2/16 off 2 overs!

 

[YOTC]

BB: 2/16 off 2 overs!

Wow how old are you? Batting @ no.11 but only getting 2 overs, yet still being smacked around for 16. I remember when i was bowling 2-3 overs per game my best figures were : 3/5.

 

[richardryan1995]

You're all shit

I made 626* in backers. I win.

 

[thecatattack]

My brother scored 400* against me.

To be fair I was about 10 he was 17.

 

[thecatattack]

Made 400 retired against my 10 y.o. brother in the backyard. I was 17. It was an innings of great concentration.

Ironic but no this isn't my brother.

 

[worbod]

My highest computer score is 257* on an EA Sports 50 overs game. Made my 100 off 63 balls and hit 31 fours and 9 sixes.


When I visited the Adelaide State Library early this century, I requested to look through the Bradman Albums. I copied this down from one of the early volumes:

"Stumpy Jones, 12, in 1888, with a tennis ball, a flat bit of wood and a kerosene tin for a wicket at the 15 mile siding, knocked up 1004 before he was caught by Nobby Clarke, 10."

These are the only details I copied, but I think this was a light hearted newspaper clipping which appeared in a local NSW paper after Bradman had made one his triple centuries for Bowral in the mid 1920s.

 

[Sman-21]

1021 joking

WTF people actually keep score in backyard cricket/street games???
We never kept score ever just went an had fun.
There was a rough idea of who scored most but noone actually counted.

Ah memories
Anytime we would smash a ball the batsman would yell out get that sh1t outta here just after contact.

 

[Smoooothy]

Backyard - around the 150 mark
Hallway - 300*
Computer - around the 575 mark. Me and my brother had some epic battles!
Real - 98 - needed a run on the last ball of the innings, which I hit straight to the bowler..

Just on hallway cricket. We had webcams setup so we could watch them later and add our own score tickers to. Geeky it was!

 

[Tairy Greene]

I made 334* in the backyard once and promptly retired to honour the great Sir Don. Then the neighbourhood bully, Matthew, came and smashed 380. He didn't even care that he disgraced the Don & Australia! Nobody talks to him anymore.

 

[getthefooty]

My highest score in backyard cricket would've only been 30 odd. The pitch was about half the size, and we used to come in and bowl full pelt at each other with a tennis ball taped one side and the batsman facing with one of those 'eye-in' bats. Was a huge achievement to last till 20.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Geez - must have been some very liberal backyard rules.

Mine was probably around 30. Pretty much wherever you hit the ball was out.

The bricks between the windows at mid wicket, a small patch at cover and the back fence were the only runs. However if anything was hit on the full you were out.

You never got anything to drive on the front foot, so a cross bat slap down the ground was always likely to be out due to hitting the fence on the full, or copping a one hand, one bounce.

So it was pushing from the back foot to midwicket and cover for most of the runs

 

[blueboy25]

Backyard cricket - 389 and it was a long day in the field for my little brother.
Real cricket - 108
Christmas cricket - 34. you play in the lounge room with a Christmas bauble and the small bats you use to get signatures.

 

[dumb]

more of a bowler than a bat. once got 3 in 4 balls, bowling just short of a length, ball would go under their drive and skid on from the asphalt and hassle their castle.

my proudest batting moment would have been belting a bunch of little kids and getting told off for not giving them a turn batting. was on fire that day.