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backyard cricket played a large role in my ineptness as a proper batsman. Hit many a 6 hitting the fence, however that equates to being caught at mid on/off in proper cricket.
 
Highest score was 54, our pitch was an absolute minefield, which we watered before the commencement of play. Early on with the half taped tennis ball you faced pace (short pitch) with vicious swing and varying bounce. And then later in the innings during spin balling the ball had the tendency to turn 90 degrees on one delivery, to staying straight on for the next.

My brother and I have a variation called Pool Cricket, using stress or foam balls. One end of our pool has an entertaining area which is used for a runup, and the other end has about a metre gap before the pool enclosure stone wall. As there is no room for footwork, and the ball skids off the water at what seems like 120+ km/h (added to this, we make waves with a bodyboard prior to play), we score using balls faced, rather than runs made.

My record is 21 deliveries :o

EDIT: And I thought this thread was about backyard cricket? Stop bragging about club cricket scores flogs! (Inb4umustbeshitthen... HS: 89)
 
juddsentant517 said:
backyard cricket played a large role in my ineptness as a proper batsman. Hit many a 6 hitting the fence, however that equates to being caught at mid on/off in proper cricket.
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Im pretty sure that backyard cricket has made me a sick as driver, but cant take a short ball to save my life. Need to get that sorted out asap.
I dont keep score, but I would have notched up quite a few 100's in my time. I have a habit of batting for a while.
 

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A mate and I used to play backyard cricket. Smallish backyard but the garden was 2, the closest fence was 1, the more distant fence was 4 and on the full was 6. Over was out.

We used to simulate a test match, have two innings and 10 lives per inning each.

One particular game my mate made 650odd and I was all out for about 250. Smugly he made me follow on where I made 6-1300dec with one triple century, two doubles and a century. I proceeded then to bowl him out for 183. :D
He was so shitty.

I did it to him in tennis too (several times). Match point in the 3rd, I win it and then beat him 6-0 6-0.

I knew all I had to do was get him flustered and I was 80% of the way to winning. :D
 
Had some intense games of backyard cricket.

Boxing day is a family tradition of beer bbq and cricket.

I remember being a kid and I was far younger than all my other cousins. All the uncles brothers fathers everyone would end up out the back of our place which was a beauty for cricket. You'd have ten blokes all 6 feet from the bat and it was hit and run and one hand one bounce AND you had to run between wickets. Stroke placement had to be impeccable and the fielding lightning quick. We are a big sporting family with a viscious competetive streak so some of these games were INTENSEEE. Many games ended up in dummy spits and fall outs. GREAT times though.

I also have a cousin in Adelaide who is the only male cousin close to my age. My parents and I went over to see them over the christmas period when I was about 12, he was about 11, and him and I played a full 5 day test match. At the time I was playing junior district and cricket was my life and he was an aspiring tennis player.

I can't remember exact scores but they blew out to something around the 4/800 mark. It ended up being a drawn test match. It was 40 degrees plus for the whole five days and we only stopped for mum to check sun burn and drink coke.

We still laugh about it to this day, at one point he ran me out but I was defiant I was in my crease as was he that I was out of it. We argued and eventually came to the agreement that I would lose the wicket, but gain 50 runs. Classic.

Funnily enough I was over there this christmas period just gone. His old man put in a professional tennis court out the back so we ended up re-kindling the test match. I destroyed him this time.

Though he's now a professional tennis player, so he was more worried about getting injured, me, just a piss-head trying to be a big man.

I tried facing his serves on the tennis court and coudlnt even see the ball. It was embarassing.

That's the end of that.
 
Used to play against my mate who lived next door and was the same age as me and we'd use his driveway as he had a garage door we could use as automatic wickie. We also had the usual tip and run and one hand one bounce rules.

Was tough to score many runs though as off side shots were restricted by a fence and leg side shots were restricted by his house and if you hit any windows you were out, a rule that was brought about when my mate smashed a window. The best place to score runs was straight as we made the footpath across the road the boundary. Kind of like indoor cricket really.

We also invented a game where you had to use a different sports implement for each innings. From memory we had a cricket bat, a tennis racquet, a hockey stick, a golf club and a cricket stump. Best for hitting fours and sixes was the tennis racquet, the hockey stick, golf club and cricket stump were a bit more tricky though.

No idea what my highest score was, wouldn't have been that many though.
 
Backyard cricket - 312 I think, a 'patient' 312 as far as backyard standards go.
Real cricket my highest is 60 odd; 63 I'm sure, playing as a replacement opener (I usually batted around 6-8).
 
Sweet thread,

Never kept score, the Old Man (and mates) were sparkies so we had floodlit games till all hours, greatest memories of my life.

Settled in one day, played my shots. The electrical tape that was used as grip became quite greasy on a hot day. Anyway, as I got down on one knee and attempted a Steve Waugh slog-sweep, bat slipped out and flew onto neighbours roof and took out his SolaHart. He was pissed.

That same innings included an exquisite straight drive that cannoned into my neighbours freshly opened beer which was on the lawn as he washed his car.

Good times.
 
These scores are stupid!

Over 100 was huge in its self for us.

We had a smallish backyard, had those old KFC blow up 'fielders'. Had Symmo, Clarkey and Hussey out there. One person bowling, one batting, one fielding/keeping. Windows on the full out, over fence out, knicked behind (when auto-keeping on..when the 3rd person was in the field) out, hitting any of the KFC 'fielders' out.

So you had to play well to get a fifty! We normally taped half the ball. I'd bowl a bit of pace but usually got wickets with my offies. I could turn it like Murali.. Batting more then 30 deliveries was rare so hundreds were hard to come by!!
 
Great thread. Summer of '86/7. Our second childhood home's arena was an absolute bitch. The primarily clay based deck had more cracks than a nudist beach & some were Grand Canyonesque in proportion. I once left the hose in the biggest crack for all of a daylight day and the sucker didn't compress a bit. I was gunna watch the news that night fully expecting some foreign geezer on the other side of the planet pointing to the ground marvelling at this mysterious liquid perpetrating from the ground. I think i then realised that there was probably an ocean on the other side & nobody would have noticed.

Anyway, a good mate and regular cricket sparring partner had the usual one innings match on a summer afternoon. The top score from memory was in the 60's somewhere & had stood for a few summers. Coupled with the satanic pitch, there was little room to score. Nothing on the off-side (house) and the usual six & out on the on. So Monty* scores an out of charachter 93 in a swashbuckling 60 minutes. Proud as punch at the innings break, he states that this score will never be beaten at this ground.

I come in determined for this record not to stand at the M(Surname)CG. I knucked down to an approx 3 hour grind leaving everything wide (auto-wickie) & only playing anything i had to. Got the biscuts and & let out a guttural roar upon victory.

Monty*, although filthy, learned a valuable lesson that day and it made him a better man for it.

*Name changed for privacy reasons.
 

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Back in the day, I made 250* against a mate, then declared.

I rolled him for 35. 10/35. Then I put him back in and rolled him again for 10/50 odd. Then I put him back in again for another 50 odd. Then when I put him back in again he spat it and went home.

Good times. :):D
 
Never kept score in backyard cricket, played school cricket as a fill in one game and made 50* then had to retire, was a baseballer and there wasn't a single traditional cricket shot in the innings, everything was being hit with a horizontal bat or blocked. I remember thinking i was decent spin bowler in my younger days as i turned the ball a mile, bowled an over in the school game and went for 20 something, apparantley placement of a delivery matters just as much as turning it, who knew!!!
 
My best effort for one out was 236. Sadly, was chasing 274. I was fortunate in that my step-father put in a concrete pitch for me and my mates because he got sick of the dead patches of grass all over the yard :D

Best effort in real cricket: 64
Best in school Super 8's: Also 64 (School record at the time)

Best in Super International Cricket (One batsman, 50 over game): 671, but I plan to better that soon!
 
my highest backyard score is only about 18.

However my crowning cricket moment came when I was 9 days short of being 3 years old. It was Xmas day, playing backyard cricket with my dad and my brother who is 5 years older than me. I bowled my brother out twice in a row and was on a hattrick. With dad commentating, sadly i bowled a wide about 10 feet outside offstump :(

Have actually got the video tape of it that mum took on VHS at her house. Im gonna have to convert it and youtube it.
 

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Only score i can remember is playing in VERY hot conditions with my mate and making 100* and declared then came in and bowled him first ball :D
 
I also remember playing school cricket at recess and lunch times in grade 6. We would take up almost the entire oval and play "Test" matches across each week monday-friday. Pick out full teams every week between grades 5/6 and make a big deal about it. If by Friday lunch time there was no result our teacher gave us Friday afternoon to finish it :D Best score there was 200+* when we put on an unbeaten opening partnership of 400 declared. Good times.

I remember starting High School and was astounded other schools didnt do this at lunch times!
 
Backyard Cricket - 1024* (over several weekends)
Computer Game - 1503 off 50 overs - Cricket '96 with the crappy cut scenes everytime you hit a four "fooouuurrrrr", stand half way down the pitch and hit almost every ball for 6 with a leg glance over the fence.
Regular cricket - 75* in U14s, off about 30 deliveries, many runs through slips that should have been caught
 

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