Hopefully I might be able to persuade some of the old team to come out for a bit of a knock about and put some of the stuff into practice that I've been advised to look at with regards my bowling via the internet after posting the video clip. The primary objective will be to get my front arm up higher and use it in levering the other arm over faster to add the whip effect as the arms rotate? I've also been requested to shoot the video footage closer so that the run-in is recorded in more detail, so I'll do this from both the side and the back I reckon?
I emailed the bloke at the council from last year and he's given me his mobile number and said to arrange and meet him to have a chat as to how he might be able to help us. He's mentioned that as yet the Rec isn't booked up on Sundays which sounds really worrying as it's normally block booked by Basildon cricket club as far as I was aware, so that suggests that something drastic has happened? It's more worrying for cricket in more general terms because if the Rec isn't used for Cricket and people are not paying to use it, needless to say the neccessity to maintain a wicket will be nulified. I
've noticed in the past that if you look at ariel images of Gloucester Park it appears that at some point in the past there was another cricket pitch behind the running track, is it a case that in this area cricket is dying out? It would really be a shame if that was the case? Especially when you think in terms of the facilities that G&CCC have to put up with when compared to the beauty and serenity of the pitch at the Rec and the fact that the council take such pride in maintaining it! It'd be devastating if this pitch disappears. But then again I may be reading far too much into the email!!!
The ECB claim cricket is growing in participation. I think there will be pockets of more or less though. I know my club is doing better than it has for many years with both youth and adult participation.
ReplyDeletemaybe you should move here Dave!
I might be wrong about this, but I was given the impression last year that the Rec was booked up by the local team at least a couple of years in advance of the current season. I'll have to meet the bloke from the council and see what he says?
ReplyDeleteI know just thinking back to last year I hardly saw anyone play on the main cricket pitch in town as well and certainly saw no-one use the secondary pitch. So the impression I get is that the local team has it's own home ground in Basildon and the other 3 grounds are getting very little use at all which is a real shame. If I can get this big group of blokes playing cricket as two teams that'll be a good move and maybe we can utilise the pitches?