Welcome To The Backyard

[- PC -]

Its summer and summer in my backyard meant cricket


Grab a cricket bat, the stumps as usual are the wheely bin. The cars and windows on the full are out and the dog on the full is out. Automatic keepers and slips and the house is a 2 from point to the drain then 4 after that, back fence is 4 , over is 6 and out. The fence from square leg to the pear tree is 2 and after the pear tree is 4, shed is 4

Good luck and oh yeah Im Australia

In winter the driveway gate was one set of goals and leaning a few sticks/brooms/mops against the neighbours wall was the other goals. You can use anything you want as a ball ...but let me warn you kittens dont bounce. We used to use old detergent bottles or the new hi tech plastic coke bottles. filled with a little bit of water, ( if we could find the lids ) the glass bottles of my youth didnt bounce either. Or if we were lucky enough to score a plastic footy from the Commonwealth Bank we would thrash that for a week or so.

As I got older the backyard filled with cars and so sport became harder to play. So we headed for the Shed, where darts and snooker became the games, along with a few drinks and even a few girls at times

Thats my backyard ...tell me about yours

 

[maccas_no1]

I mowed myself a cricket pitch in my backyard, I can even get the key in

 

[-VC-]

Adelaide Crows Super Awesome Happy Zone was winning. I demand a recount.

 

[Markthirtytwo]

Have a tropical rain forest thing happening here. And the only sport we can play is a game you can also play indoors.

 

[- PC -]

Have a tropical rain forest thing happening here. And the only sport we can play is a game you can also play indoors.

Cards

Poker

 

[Alex99]

Thats my backyard ...tell me about yours

1m x 3m of grass and after a pergola is chucked up and some small decking the rest cement. It’s the year 2007 and there is not such thing as a huge backyard anymore. Well not in newly contracted housing developments.

 

[Alex99]

Cards

Poker

Hide and seek

 

[- PC -]

What about when you were growing up?

I guess I was spoiled growing up by having the ''1/4 acre block'' but in winter we used the passageway for sock cricket and that was 3 x 1

 

[Markthirtytwo]

Cards

Poker

Not even close.

 

[Alex99]

What about when you were growing up?

I guess I was spoiled growing up by having the ''1/4 acre block'' but in winter we used the passageway for sock cricket and that was 3 x 1

We grew up in Andrew’s Farm so we had plenty of land to piss arse around on. 5 acres maybe.

LMOA – good memories because hallway cricket was a Christmas thing. Just grab a ping pong ball ornament of the tree and head to the hallway.

Winter was always football. Rain hail or shine, football.

 

[Markthirtytwo]

What about when you were growing up?

I guess I was spoiled growing up by having the ''1/4 acre block'' but in winter we used the passageway for sock cricket and that was 3 x 1

Yes I did also. We lived in Prospect. Had cousins that lived at the back of us.
However my uncle had a thing about his breeding chickens and my mother had a lot of plants that used to get broken, so we used to play on the street, was a lot safer in those days. Except when you constantly hit the bloody power lines.
Our passage had a chandelier (which did happen to get broken once) so that was a no go zone.

We used to trundle down to Blair Athol primary for a net hit or Prossy Oval for a kick.

 

[Macca19]

Cant beat hallway cricket. Had a game called Mini Cricket where you got mini stumps, mini bat and a packet of ping pong balls. Great game. Had many World Cups playing at.

My backyard was smallish and cut in half by a pool/pool fence so it made cricket tricky. So we played in the garage, opened the side door and batted at that end. Auto keeper. Pool fence was 4. Over the pool fence was 6. Had some good one-on-one battles.

At my best mates house was better. He had a long driveway which made a perfect cricket pitch. One side was a huge 10 foot tall shrub fence...which made accidently glancing or driving into the fence a sometimes 10 minute wait trying to find out where the ball was. Free space everywhere else though. Had some great two on two battles with his brother and a neighbour. Got in some awesome arguments.

Nothing beats backyard cricket as a kid.

 

[- PC -]

Top stuff Macca19, did you also have arguments over who was Australia,England and West Indies

It went like '' wanna play cricket'' ''yeahbutimaustralia''

''oh crap I guess i'm England ''

 

[Seanason]

Shotgun batting

 

[Alex99]

Top stuff Macca19, did you also have arguments over who was Australia,England and West Indies

It went like '' wanna play cricket'' ''yeahbutimaustralia''

''oh crap I guess i'm England ''

NOOOOOOOOOO – this was the 80s remember so everyone wanted to be the Windies. Well in my street and family that’s how it went.

No one wanted to be Australia because in the late 80s we were crap.

 

[- PC -]

NOOOOOOOOOO – this was the 80s remember so everyone wanted to be the Windies. Well in my street and family that’s how it went.

No one wanted to be Australia because in the late 80s we were crap.

1981

twoallbeefpattiespecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun

Now wheres my poster

 

[raikkonen]

More the frontyard for me. Live in a dead end street (one side forks off down a slight descent, and the other forks off toward my driveway). The road was the pitch, always hard as a rock, not able to put the key in. Stumps went up on the kerb at the dead end, and the lightpost marked the opposite crease and also acted as the other set of stumps for runouts - and the boundary is the gutter about 30m away. That was a four, on the full was six, however, if the ball went over the neighbous fence, it was six and out. Over their roof, however, was not. It was seen upon by the many younger kids in the neighbourhood as a sign of awesomeness. All the usual rules, one hand one bounce, U10's got a 'chance,' auto-wickie.

Good times. Might have to break out a game this afternoon. 41C though...maybe not.

 

[ams4crows]

ahhhh backyard cricket at grandad's place what a sight! having the old man try and take a catch and fall over on his ass, or the girls somehow managing to catch a ball in between their legs cos they had a dress on, then you get to the stage where your all pretty good and it takes some amazing skill to get some one out or defend your wicket! Some exciting and uncany experiences Some of the best memories ever!

and in the winter out comes the mallet and the poles! get a mini footy form macca's and it was game on!

 

[NikkiNoo]

My current backyard is full of panorama pattern pave - it's kinda obvious that the house was owned by an older italian couple before I moved in.... Has a really weird shape along the back fence with a little bit of lawn for the dog.

Previously - my parents current place has just a little back yard with a 10 m pool (6ft deep end) and the 8 person spa off to the side. Still has enough grass to throw toys for the dogs to run around and avoid bringing back.

Last time I played cricket or anything like that in the backyard, was living up the country where, we used to run around the streets more than anything. The yard was a big bare patch of dirt, until my mother got hold of it and turned it into the greenest garden that has been seen in the Flinders.

Or good old para hills west, where we used to roam the streets going from one kids house to the next until we found the best place / toys. That was a good street for games, fairly quiet except for the locals driving up and down it.

 

[Dandy_GO]

My backyard currently has no fewer than 11 tennis balls scattered around the place from the 6 cricket obsessed indian dudes who live next door.

 

[KingsCrow]

My backyard would be good for a pitch, but not a field. So small.

Its kinda funny, people find it so strange when I say I've never played Cricket or am no good at Backyard cricket. They ask, didn't you ever play it at school, nope footy ruled supreme, backyard (was too small), Street...I live on a massive hill. But mostly I was just never interested.


Not that I don't mind watching Australia play

 

[betterthanu]

My backyard currently has no fewer than 11 tennis balls scattered around the place from the 6 cricket obsessed indian dudes who live next door.

Chuck em back you mean bastard

 

[Dandy_GO]

Chuck em back you mean bastard

I'm very very lonely.

 

[AC07]

I grew up with my sisters horses in stables in the backyard. Went to a horse show with the family when I was 7 and won a Shetlan Ponnie. Sold it a week later and bought a peewee 50. Didn't play much cricket as I rode motos for the next 8 years.

When we did play cricket it was in the holidays at my Uncles place or at friends places. Best memorys are the water fights in the Backyard and soaking my younger cousins. They are now twice as big as me.

My backyard now is completley built around my dogs (2 beagles). They have dog runs and even a tunnel they can run through. Still nice enough to have people over and a BBQ. Cricket has been attempted but to many divets in the pitch due to silly dog behaviour. Have been meaning to get some sand to level it out. Sure that will last though.

 

[-CG-]

My backyard is fairly big, although the massive willow tree in the middle of it never really allowed for much backyard sports. Luckily, we live across the road from a park that has tennis courts and all that