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Menno Gazendum.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1313125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-41577779846479706142017-08-28T23:03:00.000+00:002019-01-06T13:12:25.922+00:00Benfleet CC v Basildon & Pitsea cc 4th X 26th Aug 2017<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Penultimate League game this Saturday away at Benfleet against their 3rd XI. Our team sheet looked ropey all week with very few people ticking to indicate that they were available. Joe's game in the 3's was a home game, so after picking up Tim Brown I dropped him off and Tim and I headed for Benfleet for the 12.30 start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Weather was fine - blue skies and cumulus clouds and predicted 25 degrees centigrade. Got changed and as we got ready it became apparent that we were a couple of blokes down, but the oppo were saying they were in a similar situation. I made a couple of phone calls to see if I could get a couple of people at short notice, but this was to no avail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a result of the toss, we were fielding first. We opened with Jai who was playing tomorrow and was only going to bowl 5 overs. He bowled well as did Tony Keep bowling from the North End (A127 end). Once Jai had finished his spell Joey Keep (Tony's son) bowled, not having bowled for 4 years and it didn't go that well and he asked to finish his spell at the end of the 1st over, but the rest of the team encouraged him to continue. As you can see he did better in the following two overs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I got the wicket of E.Warwick (Captain), who after having a look at a couple of attempts at my stock Leg-breaks which I wasn't spinning that much... just wasn't coming out of the hand that well, he decided - as they often do, that enough was enough and my bowling was going to be hit back to Tarpots on the A13... A massive swing and a miss at a ball that pitched on off and turned away from the off-stump signalled his intention, so the next ball was one with a lot more over-spin. This one dipped and didn't really turn - cramped him up and he dollied it back to me for a bowled and caught. He looked a little disappointed. I only just caught it - as it was one of those that came straight at me and initially I couldn't tell if it was coming at me fast so I set myself as if it was fast and then realised it was dead slow and it had began to dip so I had to suddenly squat and in doing so twisted my knee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, it was the other bloke Joe Owen whose wicket I wanted as he looked more organised and threatening, he'd already hit the ball back past me for 4 with a singular off-drive that evaded both me and the fielder at mid-off. But the majority of his shots came off of pull-shots between fine-leg and mid-wicket region, where with only 9 players, one of whom had already gone down with a bad back from bowling (Joey Keep) wasn't looking too up for it or agile. The other bloke Dave Ayres our chairman - who doesn't play and on very rare occasion come in to help out - but this was the first time in two years - was given the role of sweeper covering the area this bloke saw as his main scoring area. Dave is no athlete, more suited to darts I would imagine - but he pit in a valiant effort, but I leaked runs down there. Not Dave's fault at all, my fault for bowling leg-side where this bloke obviously felt his strength was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The knee then started to have some impact, along with the fact that I couldn't get the ball out of the hand with any revs on, so I got a bit carted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was followed by Al McIver and Frank McLeod who did a good job getting the remaining wickets. Owen was eventually dismissed for 34 caught off of Al's bowling, edging the ball to Tony Keep at a position around Gully/4th slip area. He was their best bat in this game so was a valuable wicket to take. They finished with 128 for 8 all out - off of 38 overs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tea was very commendable and we all made our way back satisfied and ready to bat. The openers were Joey Keep who scored a fair few runs in the last game and the reliable Frank McCleod who usually provides the main runs in our innings and any hope of a win. Frank faced the first ball and the opener was Warwick (Capt) with the kid Joe Owen bowling from the A127 end. Not only was Joe Owen their star batsman, but his bowling was very tidy as well...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Owen accounted for Joey Keep for 2, and Tim Brown and Tony Keep for 10 each. Frank McLeod scored 58 with 11 fours primarily scored off of Warwicks bowling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With Frank batting I'd gone looking for lost cricket balls which looked as though they'd be easily found having been given up on far too easily. Couldn't find any and when I emerged from the trees and got back to Dave who was scoring, found myself 2 wickets away from getting a bat which is very unusual. While I was getting my pads on, one wicket went down and shortly after getting padded up with Owen getting through our batting line-up like a hot knife through butter Tony Keep was caught off of Owen's bowling for his 3rd wicket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Tony came off I asked what was happening and he said "Just straight and accurate". I joined Jai and faced the first ball off the other bloke bowling from the A13 end... L.Wheeler. As Tony said - straight and accurate, varying the speed. I was initially very nervous, just not wanting to get out, there were loads of overs on the board and we only needed about 30 runs. I remembered the disastrous game where I joined Lee and played across the line and got bowled when we only needed a similar amount of runs. Within the first few balls off of Wheeler I missed one, that must have just missed the off-stump and noticed where my bat had gone in relation to the ball... I'd played across the line, bringing the bat down diagonally from my back-lift -past the point of impact - mistiming it with the bat swinging through towards mid-on and not the bowler! I stood and re-calibrated my brain - realising that this bloke at least and probably the other one at the other end were bowling straight and accurately and if I didn't rectify this I'd be out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Joe my younger son has worked with me on this and the solution is to have the bat in my back-lift behind me almost pointing towards fine-leg. I then seem to bring the back down and through the ball - with the bat pointing towards the batsman, so I put that approach into action and it worked. The kid Joe Owen was as described.. accurate with some variations. Most of it was straight, but looked as though it was supposed to be off-breaks, some turned a little and then every now and then he'd try and bowl what looked like leg-break out of the hand. Frank was umpiring and was saying - just get bat on ball and take your time, the runs will come. At the other end Jai was playing with more fluency and was obviously less risk adverse than me so was making runs, so that for me was the basis of a plan. I'll just block, and help see off the threatening Owen The key thing was not to lose a wicket with so many overs to play with. I've previously batted with a bloke in a partnership of 90 + runs and won a game that had been given up on. In that game I scored no runs, he scored all 90, I just blocked , so I can stick in there and soak up the goading and jibes while the other bloke scores. I figured if Jai lost his wicket G-man and Dave Ayres might then play his role? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It worked okay, at drinks it worked out that we needed a run an over. Owen had run out of overs and another bloke came on and he was nowhere near as threatening. But the bloke at the A13 end (Wheeler) was still a bit tricky, trying all sorts... slow, loopy, faster, all very accurate, but then every couple of overs or so, he pushed one through outside of off, not sure if it was intentional. There were about 3 and each one I played at I missed, with what seemed to me a high chance of the ball being edged through to the keeper, but he didn't see the potential, so went back to bowling at the stumps... A kind of <em>you miss - I win</em> approach. Over by over, the total came down, the batting and the approach taken flattering the bowlers figures, but in between the maidens Jai was hitting singles and 2's and a couple of fours. With only 4 required and the field <em>up around our gills</em> I saw the opportunity to hit the winning runs off of Wheeler, first a couple hit through backward of square leg and then one in the gap between square leg and mid-wicket for 4. I rarely get to bat, so it was nice to get a bat and bring the team home for a win and be the one that scores the winning runs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once home writing this up, I looked up Joe Owens stats on Play cricket and found out a little about him...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This year he's bowled 134 overs. That includes 21 Maidens, He's taken 43 wickets!!! with his best being 5 for 20. He's only been playing adult cricket for 2 years and he's had 2 x 5 wicket hauls and his economy is 3.39 and his strike rate is 18.79. His average is 10.63 and his contribution to the team as a bowler is 26.71% of the wickets. So he's no slouch with the ball. But he doesn't look that massively threatening, but he's definitely accurate and if you miss he is going to hit the stumps, he varies what he does, so I'm guessing if you go after him, it's definitely going involve quite a high level of risk as Tony, Joey and Tim Brown discovered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">His batting was okay and on this day he was by far their best playing with the ball and the bat. So I have come up with a cunning plan as I'm bound to play against him again next season, or if don't Joe will. See the plan in the bowling plans blog listed below here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">An away game today at Corringham, captain Dutton has retired for the season to focus on his business as he's had an upturn in work/clients. So in his place for the rest of the season is G-Man AKA Graham Davies. Still loads of movement within the team and this weeks team consisted of the blokes you see here on the batting card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The opposition was made up of some of my team mates from what was Grays and Chadwell CC... Chris Buckley, Terry Hills and Alex 'Wizard' McClellan the Wrist Spinner and some familiar faces from the previous games in the season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We batted first, not sure if we chose to or we were put in (Most likely). It didn't go that well on a difficult wicket with no real batsmen other than Frank McCleod. Wickets fell at regular intervals around Frank and we ended up scoring 74, with Frank McLeod scoring 41. The next best were two 9's - Asif Patel and Michael Wilson and the rest of us made contributions of 0 and 1's with 4 people scoring 0. Extras accounted for an additional 12 runs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was pitiful and I expected to heading home after about 45 minutes once we resumed after tea, but it didn't pan out that way...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For some reason we all bowled well and the batsmen for the most part showed some respect and batted with real caution. Perhaps as this is their local ground they knew how sketchy the wicket was and that maybe the score of 74 was reasonable? This appeared to be the case as Chris Buckley came out and was gone for 0. Chris's records go back to 2000 and in nearly 300 games he averages 23.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, at 16 overs when they'd both been bowled out I was thrown the ball and had to try and maintain the economy and get wickets. Paul Howlett was at the crease having come in during the 11th over. Paul Howlett is one of the blokes that I've suffered at the hands off during the season and so have done some homework on him and have come up with a plan. <a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/paul-howlett-orsett-thurrock-cc.html" target="_blank">See here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Before I came on he'd already hit three 4's through the leg-side in his favoured zone. I knew that as a basic plan I just needed to starve him of that option, so all of the deliveries were outside of off, where as far as I can make out he struggles to get the ball away. In the short time that I bowled at him he was looking to be aggressive - no doubt with the "Don't let the spinner settle" mantra going through his head. He looked to be waiting to see where the ball pitched and looking to then fetch the ball from outside of off getting it over his favoured leg-side. I think it was him although I'm not 100% sure, but during the phase I bowled at him I had two balls go to hand. One at backward square leg that was hit hard and put down and one that was totally miss-hit that I thought G-man (Wicket Keeper) was going to take easily as it was in the air for about 30 seconds, but one of the other players called it, running in from fine- leg or a short long stop position who then dived and dropped it! Never mind as a few balls later he hit the ball to deep mid-wicket and Josh Debond caught it without having to move.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-44372463006026383112017-08-20T22:29:00.001+00:002017-08-21T23:06:08.216+00:00Joe's progress<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've got two sons - Ben who's now almost 19 and off to Reading Uni to study Geography, he's almost certainly been lost to cricket for the foreseeable future, he played a couple of games last season and enjoyed it, but this season hasn't played any despite being asked several times if he'd play. Joe though the younger son (Only just 16) is still hanging in there despite frequent threats of not wanting to play and having an air of complete indifference. But three weeks ago, because of how badly all of the teams in the club are doing he was more or less forced to move up to the 3rd XI and therefore no longer plays with me in the 4th XI. Going on what he was saying about the prospects of moving up, this seemed like a make or break moment, but the club and the 3rd XI captain handled it well and it seems he's enjoying it. It might help that since moving up they've won as many games than they've lost and this has been in part down to his bowling. Prior to that they'd hardly won any games at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This puts him in the position of 2nd highest wicket taker at the club at the moment along with Rob Brooks (Off-break bowler).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I played with him this week as I was moved up, I had a good game, fielded at Mid wicket, Mid-on and silly mid-wicket where I took a good catch off of Alastair Hayton's bowling (Off-break bowler). But Joe bowled really well as you can see. The wickets were all key players amongst their top four batsmen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the end of the game the 3rd XI boys were all saying that they were more than happy to have him, but were fully aware that it wouldn't be for long and that he'd be going up to the 2nd XI pretty soon e.g. next season. Dutton (4th XI captain) and many others reckon that he should be straight in the 2nd XI based on his bowling, but he is only just 16 and I personally think that should be kept for next season or perhaps a game before the end of this season to see what he reckons to it and how he gets on. One of the blokes Alastair Hayton said that he's never seen anyone bowl at Joe's pace at this level. Again reinforcing the comments of a Southend 2nd XI batsman a couple of weeks back that Joe clean bowled. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the 4th XI we're really missing him now, we've had two games where all of us are looking around asking where's all the bowling gone? In part as our Captain has had to bail out of the team for this season as well.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-51368841170522300952017-07-31T20:26:00.000+00:002017-07-31T20:26:29.853+00:00Flipper practice<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Saturdays horrific game against Hadleigh and Thundersley, I came away thinking I need to have a least one variation other than the subtle variations in my leg break. The ball that nearly got <em>the</em> <em>batsman that had me thinking about giving the game up</em> (Keith Klein) was my off-spinning out the front of the hand flipper <strong>(Double click image below).</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I still reckon that if you're interested in bowling a Flipper of some type, it's still worth trying most of the ones that I demonstrate in these videos and just look for the one that suits you. The only ones that I'm able to bowl with a little practice is the basic back-spinning Flipper and this one in the video above - <em>the Off-Spinning Flipper</em>. It's this one that nearly got the bloke that slaughtered me and I've got good batsmen previously with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What I've come to realise over the years and is the case with this particular delivery (Off - spinning Flipper) is that you do as much as you can to get your wrist and hand in the correct position when bowling it, but when it comes down to it, unless you're very lucky, to be honest you're unlikely to hold the wrist in the perfect position through the action. I find the basic back-spinner relatively easy to bowl with the seam dead straight and offers one option. The off-spinner, despite all my efforts to control my wrist position doesn't come out with the seam anything like a conventional off-break e.g. angled with <strong>over-spin</strong>, but, instead comes out of the hand with the seam angled towards the leg-side, but spins backwards which is pretty unusual. The results is the ball holds its line through the air and doesn't dip like balls with over-spin, so it keeps really low and with the angled seam some of them nip in to the right-hander.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, if you try Flippers, don't get too hung up on whether they work in the way that you want or expect them to, instead be content that they give you simply another variation. The only other thing I'd say about them is that you've probably got to use them sparingly especially against better batsmen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So the last couple of practice sessions I've been working with the Flipper bowling alternate over-spun leg breaks and the back-spinning off-spinning Flipper. Both of them in my case require a pretty vertical arm, so there's not the obvious give-away in that aspect of the delivery. So far the practice with the Flipper seems to have gone okay and I'll continue with this week. What I want to be able to do is bowl a series of Leg-Breaks and then just pull the Flipper out of the bag and execute it well, so that's what I'll be working on this week, so far it's gone okay.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-67965715603821467042016-10-15T22:01:00.001+00:002019-01-06T20:51:55.038+00:00Cricket history Tilbury Essex <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Currently I've got two photographic projects on the go that are kind of based around cricket. One of them relates to recording cricket pitches as they are now, so I'm travelling around the country as and when I get the opportunity and I photograph pavilions and the grounds, along with some of the other features. But at the moment the key aspect of it is <em>the pavilions</em> as a record of their architecture... see </span><a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cricket-pavillions-typology.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. This project is trundling along nicely and is the easier of the two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The other project is a little different and requires a lot more research. The other project is a landscape project focusing on cricket pitches that were. So for this I have to find out the locations of old cricket pitches and establish where the club house/pavilion was. I then take a shot from a position that would have been directly opposite the pavilion/clubhouse approximately from what would have been the other side of the cricket pitch. So what I'll end up with is a set of odd landscapes where cricket pitches used to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've started in my own locality and I've quite quickly discovered that there is a rich cricket history which is on the cusp of disappearing without any sign of it at all. In my own lifetime in my own town - Tilbury, I'm aware that I've witnessed the demise of two cricket grounds and their associated teams. Tilbury CC who used play on the Daisy Field in Tilbury town folded sometime in the 1980's and the players moved to other clubs in the area. A bloke I played with at Grays and Chadwell (Alan Fulbrook AKA "Fozzy") had played on the Daisy field in Tilbury during the 1970's and 80's as a Tilbury player and had knowledge of the West Tilbury cricket pitch at Condovers. My research so far has indicated that cricket has been played in the following areas...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">There may also be another field outside Tilbury along Dock Road, but as yet there's no indication that cricket was played there... "Hedley's ground". *See update on 17/10/16 below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tilbury is quite famous when it comes to cricket as it's one of the only places where cricket players have killed each other over a game of cricket. In a match against Kent played at <strong>Tilbury fort</strong> a number of blokes killed each other having got into a punch up and then picking up guns (It was an active fort at the time) and shooting each other. See the account here </span><a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/georgians/1780939/"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/georgians/1780939/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On the SEDCB's website there's a piece on cricket in Tilbury. </span><a href="http://www.sedcb.org.uk/yesterdays-our-timeline/1918-formation-of-thurrock-interknit-cricket-club"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.sedcb.org.uk/yesterdays-our-timeline/1918-formation-of-thurrock-interknit-cricket-club</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the SEDCB's article there's the mention of the Interknit Siley Weir cricket team that was based in Tilbury Docks. In the article it's identified that they played on a ground in Tilbury...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This was around 1918. The same article says that they moved to Blackshots in 1936, so it seems that this ground then disappears from sight as such and it's difficult to ascertain where in Tilbury it was. Recently though via a Tilbury memories page on Facebook one of the blokes commenting on the subject of playing fields mentioned a field in Tilbury along 'The Broadway' where cricket was being played in the 1950's. The Broadway road back in the 1950's prior to Dunlop road being built went pretty much straight towards the Go-Cart track adjacent to Gaylor Road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">During the Facebook conversation the bloke Ron pointed out that the Broadway originally ran from Dock Road all the way up to this point here where it stops at the Go Cart track. He also mentions the impressive gate entrance and suggested that there may have been a big house here and this was the original gateway, but wasn't sure and had no evidence. I can remember that if you went through the gates, the ground between Gaylor rd and the Go-Kart track was strewn with slabs of concrete and bits of metal suggesting possibly that the site may have been used for industrial activities? Or it may have been left over stuff from the construction of the estate. But all around the Go-Kart track there was evidence of industrial activity and it had that 'Brown-field' feel about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Another interesting feature of Dunlop Road nee 'The Broadway' was that there was further evidence of a different past because just at the Adelaide road turn off on what was the Broadway you'll find a number of pre-1970's houses that still exist and must have been in the location when this area was playing fields (Siley's playing field)? or as we called them 'The Dockers Fields'. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Old pre-1960's houses along 'The Broadway' nee Dunlop Road, Tilbury. </span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is the current map of the area. The red line shows the original 1950's road 'The Broadway' running from Dock road right up to the Go Kart track - now Gaylor Road. In Ron's descriptions and my own very vague memory a road ran from the old Broadway - possibly now Adelaide Road onto Siley's fields ringed approximately in blue. In this area, there were tennis courts, rugby fields, football fields and a cricket pitch and at least one changing room building/</span><a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cricket-pavillions-typology.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">pavilion</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">? At the current moment I'm still in conversation with Ron and a few other blokes trying figure out exactly what was where.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The blue line heading north in the image is the route of the old 'Broadway' which went all the way through to the border between field A and F. My own recollection from the late 1960's is that E was an established allotment, which once the tower blocks were built was moved to the space between the green block D and the school (St Chads secondary school). My Dad had allotment over there which was flanked by the multi-storey car park to the south of it and to the east St Chads school the other-side of the manor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">D - was a farm of sorts, I don't remember there being any houses, possibly caravans, but it did have pigs on it which you could smell and hear. As kids we were always a little wary of it for some reason - it may have had signs up saying private? To the left of D where on the map it says FP there was a thicket of hawthorn bushes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">B - Is where the football pitches were when I was kid and we called this area 'The Dockers Fields'. At that point the road indicated by the bigger blue dots was built and it had new houses on it with conventional roofs, Dunlop road and 'John's' corner shop was being built. I had a mate Ricky Ellingford who lived in the houses opposite 'John's' shop as soon as they were finished. John's shop was at the junction of Dunlop Rd and Adelaide Rd in the 1970's and 80's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The field A appears to be broken up on this map into sections which may be borders (Fences) indication private land and you can see that the houses which are almost certainly the old houses mentioned above on the map have their boundary lines indicated too. So I'm guessing this isn't a playing field, I need to have this confirmed by Ron.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Much of this is speculation and I'm hoping to get access to more detailed maps in the next few weeks at Grays Library and see if I can dig anything up from the books they have there. My main objective is to figure where the Interknit Siley Weir cricket teams Dock Road cricket pitch was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong>17/10/16 Update</strong> - Ron on the Internet (Face Book) contacted me having seen the post here and said that the pitch was definitely nowhere near the gates at the end of Dunlop Road/Gaylor Road, looking through the gates where the Go-Kart track used to be was marshes in the 1950's. He then said that pitch that was mentioned as being on Dock Road on the SEDBC website <a href="http://www.sedcb.org.uk/yesterdays-our-timeline/1918-formation-of-thurrock-interknit-cricket-club">"Interknit Cricket Club"</a> might have been one that Ron says was up near the Rookery at the corner where the Dock Road turns into Little Thurrock. Ron's mentioned it previously and has said that it was known as Hedley's ground or field. Apparently it was there until the mid 1950's and was flooded in the late 1950's. This potentially fits the description on the SEDCB's website...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>"Located off <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Dock Road</st1:address></st1:street>, close to the Bull Inn, The Lawn was just over half a mile from the Recreation Ground and, fearful that their new rivals would steal a march on them, Grays Athletic resigned from the London League and joined Grays Thurrock in the Kent League, which comprised both professional and amateur clubs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite a lack of spectator facilities, an encouraging crowd of 3,000 made their way to The Lawn on September 4<sup>th</sup> 1924 to see Grays Thurrock take on Sheppey United in their first match in the Kent League. A couple of old army huts were converted into changing rooms and club offices and, as the months went by, the ground was gradually improved, with a post and rail replacing the original rope around the pitch, and a wooden grandstand coming into use in early 1925.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first local derby between the two Grays clubs took place in December 1924, an eagerly awaited event which saw an attendance of 4,000–5,000, with some spectators using the skeleton of the not yet completed stand as a vantage point".</em></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Reading this (Link below) again much later it's apparent that the Lawn field ground was gone by 1939 as Lawns Crescent was built over it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not blogged that much recently as I've been looking into converting to a proper website, so have been looking into that as an option. The only issue for me at the moment with regards going for it or not is the fact that it costs money. Word is, because of the dominance of this site on the web and the niche nature of the content/subject, the potential for a website is good and it might grow exponentially in comparison with this blog and it'll end up paying for itself relatively quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway in the short term that's not about to happen and in the meantime I've been playing and bowling. It's not been that good...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Despite all the practice over the off-season with my bowling and the work done on the longer run-up, it hasn't converted to the game or even practice sessions. Someone pointed out in a recent video that it looked as though when I was bowling I was doing so as though I had a deficiency in my pivot leg at FFC. I then twisted my knee in the 1st game of the season (friendly) in the field before bowling and went off. I then came back on near the end of the game and took 2 wickets coming in off of two steps a la' Terry Jenner in the BBC videos. I then took this forward to the two following games as my twisted knee recovered and did OK. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At this point practice was thin on the ground because I was in two minds whether resurrect </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9CvRSq4hs"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'The Paddock'</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> as somewhere we could practice as the fence had been removed and it was saturated with water. Easter was crap with regards the whether and my general fitness wasn't that good. Eventually the weather improved a little and we made the decision to cut and maintain a wicket in the paddock again to practice in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Once it was ready, in practice I bowled 95% of the time off of the 2 step approach rather than the more energetic run-in off of 5 or 6 steps. Every now and then I'd try the faster longer run-up and it seemed as though I'd lost it, I couldn't get it right at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This meant in the recent games I've bowled all my spells coming off of two steps and it's not gone well. Bizarrely in practice it works perfectly?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gutted and confused. What had promised to be an important development (The 5-6 pace run in), hadn't come together and the two step approach I've not been able to get it right in games, it's like I've got the yips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In practice, I've bowled superbly and accurately with a range of variations albeit off two steps. I use a car mat as a target which is about 30cm x 45cm and frequently hit it, irrespective of where it's placed. Not only am I hitting it, but the balls spinning almost certainly more than I've ever done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But, when it comes to game situations It's been a totally different story, couple of weeks ago I bowled two head height full tosses to a set batsman taking the game away from us and then the third ball landing on a perfect length, the bloke offers a straight bat in defence of the ball which was on middle and off and it finds the edge and Tony Harms catches it in the slips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Last week a similar thing, two leg breaks head- height to a good batsman - one of them is fielded at fine leg on the boundary, he runs two, 2nd one goes for 4 in the same region. The 3rd ball is good and is fielded when hit cleanly. The captain then puts younger son Joe on the deep mid off, having seen how the batsman played the previous delivery. The next ball, not actually thinking why, but just doing it - put more over-spin on the ball and it as a result dipped more and the bloke went through the shot too early and it was up in the air heading for Joe. He had to run a bit, but caught the ball whilst running at speed short of the boundary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After that, more bad stuff - legside, short, full tosses, you name it, it was in there and it's expensive and I'm not getting much more than 4 overs and rightly so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the moment I'm of the belief that it's partly down to fitness and that I'm slowly getting fitter and that this may facilitate an improvement. I've played today and again bowled off of 2 steps, I bowled 4 overs for 14 with no wickets, but it was rubbish mixed with perfection as usual. I had 1 catch not taken and a ball against a leftie go through the gate having pitched well outside of off and miss his leg-stump by a gnats cock pube!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The game was rained off and we were back early and despite the fact the game was only 10 miles away, back here in Langdon Hills it hadn't rained, so I was able to go over to the paddock and have a bowl and see if I'd bowl a pile of crap again as I had in the game. I went over with positive intention and thought rather than go for the 2 step approach, just go straight in with the longer run up version. Lo and behold guess what happens? I bowl about 15-20 overs worth of balls and it goes perfect virtually.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Drills I've done recently have included this one here where I put this trolley thing in front of the stumps to represent the batsman and place my target mat outside of leg as below and then look to land the ball onto the mat and turn it into the stumps. In practice I can do this fairly frequently, some spin too far and miss the off-stumps some bounce over, some hit the mat and go on straight e.g. natural variation - some people call them 'Sliders', but that's nonsense, Warne refers to them as Leg-Breaks that don't grip or just calls them what they are... <em>Natural variation</em> now that he no longer plays and is no longer in need to play the psychology game with any batsman that is listening and trying to work him out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This might be the solution - this is another pair that I have and as you can see, I've removed the metal spikes and opted for the flatter grip discs which may allow more pivot and maybe a similar feel to the Adidas trainers? So, what I'll do is wear these when I practice in the paddock over the coming days and see how much these impact on my bowling... accuracy and length. It maybe that I'm barking up the wrong tree, but at the minute the only difference I can think of between bowling in games and when I practice is footwear, so it'll be worth giving it a go?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I came away from the practice last night feeling okay despite the fact that bowling off of the longer run-up is obviously more physically demanding and I came though it okay and have felt okay today, so that may also be a contributory factor, maybe my fitness levels have not been as they should be and as the season goes on I've slowly got fitter?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still no game at home for either me or Joe and Joe wasn't playing this week because he was on a Duke of Edinburgh award walk. So I was off to Wickford's memorial park ground...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had to scam a lift off of Tony Harms and we arrived at dull cloudy day with the wind quite blustery from the top end of this image to the bottom end 'River Crouch end". I'll refer to the north end as 'The Pavilion End'. I was hoping to take some photo's of the team and other players for a photography project that I'm doing, but no knowing this team and where the pavilion was going to be (I'd got in the car not actually knowing we were off to this ground) I've left it till next week when Joe will be able to help me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our players started to show up and it soon became apparent that we were probably going to be 3 men down with some of them not letting Dutton know it seemed, he wasn't that happy. What made it worse all over the ground we were going to play on there seemed to be the <em>wrong team</em> e.g. what looked like a group of athletic 17-20 year olds - 3rd of 2nd XI type players. Then a couple of older blokes turned up. It then began to sink in... this <em>was</em> the opposition... Nine big youths and two older blokes and these were relatively young too 40's? Whereas we had 8 players...Dutton and Tony in their 40's, me wrong end of my 50's then Gopal and Jay in their 20's early 30's. The rest were small boys all 13 years old. So a bit of an ask for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their bowling was okay, nothing like facing Joe or spin and as a result I managed to last 10 or more overs and scored 6 including a 4 flicked off my pads down to fine leg. But eventually a straight one got me through the gate. Jay put a few more runs on the board and then there was a bit of a collapse until Dutton and Travis added a few at the end. There were quite a few extras and in the end we ended up with 77. Travis it must be said looked exceptionally confident with the bat, I reckon he's likely to score 50 at some point this season if he puts his mind to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3. Mike Blerkom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4. Dave Thompson #<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">7. Joe Thompson <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">8. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brandon</st1:place></st1:city> Debond *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">9. Josh Debond *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">10. Charlie Blerkom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we drove to the same
venue as last week Joe said "I hope we bat first today". The outcome
of the toss was they won and opted to field. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Batting got off to a
decent start, but then faltered (I didn't photograph the batting stats). Chris
Debond was rattling along at good pace, but then was caught at extra cover by a
fantastic catch by 'Jeddy' - looking over his shoulder watching the ball
and running in the direction the ball was going he had to dive at the last
second to get to the ball, the dive was a massive full length one with a big
impact landing and he still hung onto it. Very impressive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Around 20 overs or so it
wasn't looking that clever and Pat Ayres who was scoring said it looked like
120 was possible, then Mike Blerkom got into gear and started to make a
difference after a slow-ish start. Anthony Ayres towards the end of the game
made some vital runs riding his luck being put down a couple of times, but at
the end of the game with me facing the last ball of the match and hitting it
and running 3 with Farhan being run-out in the process we reached 170 which
seemed defendable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Joe who batted at 9 was
told the same as me... "Swing at it". Went for 0 - clean bowled and
was part of a team hat-trick orchestrated by their bloke Jeddy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Spinners on their team...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">J.Elliott - Left arm
orthodox (finger spinner)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">H.Jeddy - Right arm finger
spinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I asked about Leg-Spinners
in their team and they said they never had them, I then asked what about in the
club? They all looked at each other, one of them then said... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Er... there's a
bloke who's just joined the club and I think someone said he bowled leg-spin...
If he does, he's the only bloke in the whole club as far as I'm aware and I'm
not 100% sure even if he does". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"What about finger
spinners"?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Yeah we've got loads
of them - two in the squad today".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After a half decent tea,
we took the field to see what we could do. I didn't have a clue as to how Joe
or I would be deployed, I guessed that Joe would be amongst the openers in line
with the fact that I'm fairly certain 'The Club' would like to see him playing
at a higher level. If that is the case they need to handle him carefully
because as with Ben, he's not that fussed on cricket and if you were to give
him half a chance for not playing he'd be easily persuaded. He likes the 4th
XI, but is reluctant to play in the 3rds. He's only 14 and enjoys the 4th XI
games, I personally would advise the club to leave him in the 4th XI for this
season and allow him to have the success that this will bring him and therefore
grow his confidence. Then when needed as in the case of today, get him into the
3rds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As you can see he was
given the new ball and opened into the wind from the southern end, after being
asked what end he wanted to bowl from. He should have bowled from the other end
as he swings the ball from leg to off and the wind would have assisted him with
this as it would have been with him diagonally, I need to talk to him about
this and ask him if he realised that would have been the better option. He went
with the opposite end as that's the end he bowled from last week when the wind
was in the opposite direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As you can see below he
bowled well taking two wickets and his first ever bowled and caught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>The fact that Joe was involved in a 3rd XI game and it was one that we won, will help with the integration of Joe into the other teams, but they will need to be careful how they handle him remembering that he is only 14. I think in time he will make the transition and I reckon in the longer term if I and the club can keep him in the game he'll want to move away from playing in the same team as me, it's just the nature of the beast. But, the trick will be to keep him on board and keeping him liking the game and liking the team he plays in, he doesn't take it too seriously and it bothers him when other people do and I think that's down to the fact that he's the age he is. As he gets older he'll naturally get more competitive and will understand other people's desire to win and their passion.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My bowling went well, both spells were spent bowling at the
same two players. One an old bloke who’d already introduced himself by way of
asking about our older player Wayne Morgan, When I asked him how he knew Wayne
he said “Wayne’s our 12<span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> Man, he normally plays in the Essex Vets 2<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></sup>
XI team, but occasionally plays for us”. This bloke was one of the Spinners in
their team neither of whom had spun the ball very much at all. The other player
was a kid from the SEDCB district team that Joe’s practiced with all winter and
will be playing with soon. With such a bad start it was obvious that they’d
been put in at 9 and 10 to block out the game for a draw. <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I still haven’t got my head around the new rules yet, but I
noticed that the overs suddenly appeared on the score board after drinks and
were counting up to what I thought was 20 and then someone said ‘Come on lads’
with 10 on the board ‘There’s only 6 more overs to get one of these two out’.
I’d bowled tidily in the first spell - the kid had cut a leg-break poorly through
backward point where Joe was fielding and it just about evaded him – far more
uppish than he’d have hoped for, the ball dropping short and being fielded for
two. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>The 2<span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></sup> spell was better because they’d got a
sniff of getting batting points (125) and started to hit the ball more
frequently rather than just blocking it. They rotated the strike well
frequently hitting singles and had slowly edged their way to about 15 short of
the 125 required for the points. As soon as they moved up a gear the chances
started to come, the ball was in the air a lot, but luck was on their side as
they moved ever closer to the 125, but with it came the sniff of victory for
us. The last man who’d been sitting with his pads on now for nearly an hour and
a half was visibly nervous even from right out here we could see his leg jigging up and down and he didn’t look as though
he fancied his chances. We could sense that if we could either of these two we'd be in with a shout but they were more than competent batsman if left to defend and block for the draw, but greed was there for the batting points and it looked to be their un-doing. Both of them started to make mistakes, my bowling was good - I wanted the old geezer and in the last 12 balls one of the balls broke and must have missed the edge of bat by billimeters! The kid couldn't pick the top spinner and that had him all at sea, but generally both of them being as good as they were dealt with the leg breaks quite well, but as soon as they went looking for runs and started to play their shots it started to fall apart at the seams.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Buzz played his part, him and Blerkom decided that they'd mix the bowling up, after my first spell I though that would be it, but I was brought back on again after Joe and Anthony had been deployed again with the fast stuff, but with the fast stuff brought runs and it was in this phase that they changed their mind set and looked to play their shots. Buzz changed the end that Anthony bowled from and in no time the kid was clean bowled and LOS were still a few runs short of the 125 that they were now looking for. This brought the nervous bloke on and within a few balls it was all over with and we'd won the game. The star of the game for us was Anthony Ayres with his</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>It was really good to be involved in a game where we'd won, but I still don't think one win will win Joe over and encourage him to play in the 3's more regularly. Yeah he enjoyed it, but he is just 14 and he's not obsessed with cricket in the same way that others are.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong> The on-going tally between Joe and I as far as I can recall (I didn't copy the score sheet for the 1st friendly match).</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Me - 14-0-52-3</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Joe 26-2-65-4</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>3 games down Finger spinners - 15, Wrist Spinners 6</strong></span><br />
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Mike Blerkon and Buzz<br />
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Anthony Ayres<br />
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Joe Thompson checking his bowling figures.<br />
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Pat Ayres<br />
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Joe Thompson happy having won the game.<br />
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Thursday as I type, the squad was posted up on the website on Tuesday and a few
of the regulars appeared on the list along with some new names. See below.</span></span><br />
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there’s a new aspect to the squad list that identifies the ratio of finger-spinners
to wrist spinners. I’m under the apparently misguided impression that there is
a dearth of Wrist Spinners because it’s so easy to do and there are hardly any
finger spinners because that’s so ridiculously difficult to do. So with the
teams I play in over this season I’m going to try and identify the ratio
between Wrist-Spinners and Finger-Spinners. At the moment I firmly believe that
there are far more Finger Spinners than Wrist-Spinners but on Bigcricket.com
there’s a bunch of people that are assuring me I’m very wrong, so we’ll see.
Last week’</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s came as far as I’m concerned was packed with
‘Wristies’ as there were two of us one on each team, but in-line with my
observations there were at least 4 finger spinners on my team and our team was
bowled out cheaply before the finger spinners were deployed on their team, so
there may have been more?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The weather
has changed massively, the weekend was cold last week, but on Monday when we
all went back to work the wind direction changed from northerly to southerly
and now we’re into Spring proper with temperatures today in the low 20’s and by
the weekend mid 20’s so we’re going from freezing our nuts off with three
layers and coats to sun-bathing and shirts off at the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Leigh-On-Sea
are a new team for me and a new venue so hopefully there’ll be opportunities to
shoot pavilions and report on whether their wicket is spin-friendly. I’ve not
checked yet, but I reckon their ground must be ‘Belfairs’. We’ve gone down a
league too, so we should do okay this season.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Injuries – </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I twisted my knee and pulled
something last weekend, but this week I’ve not bowled or done anything to
stress it any further, so have rested it, so hopefully with a knee support I’ll
come through if I take it easy. As proved last week if I have to, I can bowl
off of a Terry Jenner-esque two step walk in and still take wickets and that
was against a 3<sup>rd</sup> XI team described as being strong, so hopefully
it’ll come good this weekend. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Fitness – </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not feeling it at the moment
because of the crap weather at the start of spring, so if the knees recovered
enough and I come through this weekend unscathed I’ll have to start working on
fitness. My back has nearly fully recovered from a lifting/carrying injury, but
thankfully doesn’t seem to be affected by my bowling, so hopefully I’ll get to
bowl for more than 2 overs this weekend? Having said that there’s loads of
names in the initial squad sheet that I don’t recognise and for all I know they
may all be bowlers? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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heard at the weekend that there’s a maximum bowling allowance. No-one is
allowed to bowl any-more than 14 overs and this apparently is designed to stop
‘Old blokes’ from bowling the whole game from one end, which I’ve seen happen once
before with a Southend EMT game at Langdon Hills, this they’re hoping will give
kids a chance to bowl. With only 45 overs it looks as though I’d be dead lucky
to get 14 overs in the future, our team usually has people queuing up to bowl
and I reckon if you get 5 blokes bowling 9 overs each you’re going to be
counting yourself lucky. My son Joe is usually given his full allocation of 12
because of his ability, and if he’s supported by another seam bowler doing a
similar job, that’ll leave 21 overs for the rest of us to fight over, it
doesn’t sound good at all especially if there’s more than 5 ‘Bowlers’ in the
team.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">First league game of the
season and the good news is that we fielded 11 players…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Weather</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
– Warm -22-23 degrees Centigrade, south easterly breeze 15-20 mph, with hazy
cloud varying between 40%-60% cover. (We played on the wicket top left) <strong>Double click the image </strong>for an assessment of whether it was a spinning wicket</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lee Dutton* – Captain <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jamie Britton – Wicket Keeper.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Joe Thompson*<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dave Thompson@ <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Farhan Malik*<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Abhinanadan
Bidari<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gopal
Viswanathan<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jayanand
Shivapujimath<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Steve
Bonnett<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Josh
Debond*<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Travis
Singleton<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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asked the opposition about their spin options and they said they had one finger
spinner, no Leg-Spinners, when I was talking about this Lee and another bloke
joined in and said “You got a lot of kids a few years back trying Leg-Spin, but
once they all got up to adult cricket they tended to disappear… it’s too hard,
that’s why you get so many finger spinners, Leg-Spin is so much harder to
bowl”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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team had a very different look to it, with a lot of new blokes including two
kids Josh and Travis who are only 13 years old. Tony and Liam Harms were not
there and the word is because of Tony’s new job we wont be seeing him for a
minimum of 5 weeks, whether that’s the same for Liam or not I’m not sure?
Farhan has played in the 4’s before and possibly Gopal, but the other two
blokes were new-comers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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won the toss and with all the new blokes being unknown quantities opted to
field. Before we went out I marked out my run-up from the end I wanted to bowl
from (Southern end) and had a practice next to the wicket to see how my knee
twist injury from last week was feeling and it was obvious that the new
energetic run-up was a no-go, so there and then I decided to play it safe and
come in off of a Terry Jenner two step approach to the crease if I was asked to
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- was asked to open and I was at the other end with spin. Joe as always got off to a good start bowling seam up, he continued to do so all the way through both his spells, but he did say at the end he was at one point considering bowling some finger-spin, but opted not to. </span><br />
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2<sup>nd</sup> spell was the better of the two with two wickets being taken,
the first wicket on the scorecard was a run-out by Jayanand. But the two
wickets in the last over with the very last 2 balls were very good, as was the bowling around it,
excellent length, getting the ball to swing away and go away off the seam. He was also unlucky in the first spell as a ball was hit straight to Steve Bonnett at Gully, a high ball that Steve jumped up to and parried upwards off the top of his fingers and not being able to gather, but he stopped it going for a certain four despite the state of the <a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/cricket-pitches-in-south-essex-district.html">outfield.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My first spell went okay. One of the two first balls, possibly <em>the </em>first ball hit the bloke on the legs plumb as far as I was concerned - nice and full, but I didn't go up initially and then did so half heartedly and was turned down. Ball number three was exactly the same, but this time I went up for it and the batsman was on his way back to the sheds. With all the new blokes, Dutton was looking to give everyone a go, so I was off after 4 despite looking quite threatening. The 4's unfortunately were both wrong-uns that were a little short, and again the same in the 2nd spell, so that needs some work. Other than the handful of Wrong-Uns I kept it quite simple, there was very little on offer for spinner on this wicket and Lee was of the same opinion, so the order of the day was to pitch it up. No wides as you can see, which was pretty good, there were a few leg-side balls, which because they were pretty full, none of the blokes played that well. I had one ball that got through the gate, can't remember whether it was a wrong-un or a Leg-Break, but it hit the inside edge or something and deflected missing the leg-stump by a gnats breath. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The other thing I noticed when I was bowling was that one of the balls drifted<strong> a lot</strong>, drift isn't something I see with my bowling much, as I have very vertical arm normally, so I can only assume with this different two step 'Run-in' my arm must have come down a little or maybe it was the head wind which was blowing slightly left to right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I found this drift aspect quite interesting, as last week the Leg-spinner at the Chelmsford game was getting loads of drift and it was obviously as a result of the Malinga style arm. In the past I've practiced with a much lower arm and done so with a good level of success, the ball turns more and drift as I recall was more evident. Along with that the ball turned more too. The thing I'd have to work on is getting it so that I could switch from a high arm and gradually bring it down and then go from high to low and still maintain accuracy. It's something I might work on Wednesday at nets next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Considering my knees knackered, it was an okay performance and with the wicket. The opposition were very complimentary about my bowling with a number of them commending me for bowling so well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dutton came on a little later and bowled well, he was happy as he's starting to suffer from arthritis in his fingers and was saying that it hurt to bowl, plus last week he was involved in a car incident and suffered whiplash. When he was bowling he had me at Mid-on, and one of the better batsman hit a ball straight at me and I did virtually the same thing as I did last week and dropped it again. But I redeemed myself in the same spell where one of the blokes T.Bull who looked like a steady batsman hit one right up in the sky in my general direction. For a moment I'd written it off and then realised it was going up more than it was going along, so changed my mind and went after it and got myself in position. Lee was watching and said to himself <em>Oh crap, this is going down as well</em> (I'm not known for my success rate with high catches like this), but I caught it... not perfectly, but it stuck and the geezer was out... Nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">5-0-15-1 Lee Dutton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another surprisingly good bowling performance came from Travis Singleton, who's only 13 he bowled as per below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My dismissal was crap. After all the net sessions and that carrying through to club nets and despite last weeks 4th ball dismissal, I was hoping to make some runs with the support of Jayanand. It seemed that one of their better bowlers was saved for this part of the game and he was on when I went out after Jamie. I kept him at bay for a couple of balls and then had the prospect of facing one of the kids (Wrobel) that seemed to be bowling at an innocuous pace. The first ball he served up was short and legside... A gift in most people's eyes and I thought the same... <em>whoa that's short and it's safe</em> and then I knocked it straight into the hands of Barton at head height at square leg. Gutted - out for 0 again off of about 4 balls faced, same as last week. Note to self <em>Hit the ball into the ground - roll the wrists.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Image below left to right Lee Dutton, Josh Debond, Travis Singleton and Steve Bonnett.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The wicket looking north</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The 2 captains at the toss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Joe Thompson medium fast today. 10-1-22-2 He bowled well today, getting the ball to swing away and move off the seam away from the bat and deployed his knuckle ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Below Left to right... Lee Dutton, <span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: small;">Jayanand Shivapujimath, Abhinanadan Bidari and Steve Bonnett. <o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mobile phone hell... Abhi looking a bit left out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lee said to Joe - play with a straight bat, get on the front foot... Joe nicks an edge for a spectacular dive off of the wicket keeper and like so many of us out for 0.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some of the lads said they'd be back next week...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello w</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";">hat's Bob Willis doing at Leigh On Sea? The opposition start to pack up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dutton gathering the cash...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The drainage ruts run at regular intervals across the outfield.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Joe and Jamie Britton trying to jam the bags into the back of out Astra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The next game is at home against Horndon-On-The-Hill, who are a team I don't recall playing before, but I think they're going to be quite strong because their team was bolstered by the demise of Pegasus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Joe my younger son was saying that we've not gone down a league, because there was a big shift around in the organisation of the what teams played against who, making it so that we play teams that are more local to us, rather than go miles to play, which I don't mind myself even though it's me that has to stump up for the diesel! Joe was saying we're pretty much playing at the same level again this year, which if it's true is a shame because it'll be a season of getting beaten virtually every game. I guess we'll see as we go through the season?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was a disappointing loss especially as the opposition captain was saying that his team was weak. I don't know what it is that we do wrong, I came away from this thinking, maybe it's nothing to do with the batsmen, maybe it's the way we field? When we field, the positions are always pretty conventional, but for some reason when the opposition hit the ball they get it in the gaps? Then I thought is it the bowling? There were shed loads of extras in this game, in fact I don't think I've ever seen as many extras in game ever - other than kids cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We bowled the 45 overs and bowled 23 wides and 1 x No-Ball. This was down to the fact that some of the players were totally new to the 4th XI and Dutton gave everyone a go, possibly to see who does what? Hopefully this next match he'll take a slightly different approach, now he's got some idea of people's strengths and weaknesses?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">They bowled 23 overs and bowled one more extra than us. So perhaps they were doing a similar thing? I did ask their players about who bowled what, trying to find all these wrist spinners that people are talking about on the internet, but there was only one...me. A handful of finger-spinners, but just the one leg-spinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It's a funny old game this cricket, difficult to make sense of? Or was it they just had far superior batsmen? We lost so badly and they didn't even have to use Bob Willis ;-) </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-31658581606033335282016-04-30T19:28:00.001+00:002019-01-06T16:43:33.763+00:00First match of the season v Chelmsford CC 3rd XI<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After weeks of arctic wind freezing us to death, the weekend came good despite loads of people declining to play across three teams. The club didn't even attempt to get the 4th XI team out knowing full well that the cross-over with the end of the football season would mean it would never happen. It turned out that only two teams played this weekend the 1st and 2nd XI's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Weather was bright and sunny, bit of a breeze and 13 degrees on the thermometer in the car. Although during our innings a squally April shower passed by, potentially threatening the game, but it missed us. But as it passed by the wind increased, the sun went in and the temperature dropped by several degrees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wayne freezing to death with several layers. I had two pairs of trousers on, a long t-shirt, a cricket shirt and a jumper and then a coat and was still cold when scoring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We were fielded first and in the first few overs I dropped a ball that was hit at me whilst at mid wicket -looked like a ball that would have been one of those that rockets for a 6 at head height. I managed to parry it and bounced up and forwards a bit and I thought 'I've got this' only to then fumble it and it went to ground. But, somewhere in the process I twisted on my knee and something went awry. This then meant that I couldn't run around without limping. We had an extra player and the other team what with it being a friendly said that we could swap over players pretty as and when we felt like. I persevered and knowing there was a bloke on the boundary I came off for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Joe bowled well, taking our first wicket - a bloke that was doing okay and the lead scorer at that point in their team. It was at that point I left the field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I then took the opportunity to go and take some pictures for my Typology project <a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cricket-pavillions-typology.html" target="_blank">see here.</a> At this ground there were 4 pitches, one of which is Galleywood CC and that had a really nice traditional style pavilion. The only thing is I had a crap camera, but I still got the shots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Walking around my knee didn't feel any better, but as I came back to the match I was called back on and asked to bowl. I tried to come off of the new run-up and bowled, but it wasn't good and then <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">decided to come off the Terry Jenner style run-up which is a lot slower, but more accurate and gives me the options of a Wrong-un and a Top-Spinner. I took me 4 balls to get it right, but in the first over against a left-hander one turned nice and bounced well, cramped him up and the ball came off the top edge and he was caught at Mid-wicket by Luke Daw. That over with the messy start I went for 10. The next over was better - another wicket... A right hander having seen a couple leg breaks wasn't ready for a big turning wrong-un - again virtually the same thing, cramped him up and came off the top edge and went straight up in the air for Mike Blerkom (Wicket keeper) to safely catch. 2-0-13-2. Somewhere in there I'd bowled another 2 wrong-uns and they'd both turned a lot and none of the batsmen had played a successful shot to them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Batting didn't go well for any of us. I didn't get a shot of the score book, but I think we took 8 wickets for 192 off of 40 overs and batting we fell short of 100. Chris Debond and Luke Daw making the biggest contribution with the bat. I batted at 8 with Luke and was bowled by a slow ball, played through it about 30 seconds to early. Luke at the other end said as I walked off,<em> I was just thinking, I need to tell you about this blokes slower ball...</em></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We lost by having all been bowled out for 93. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our team... 2 x wrist-spinners, 5 x finger spinners</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Their team... 1 x Wrist Spinner. We were bowled out cheaply so we probably didn't get to see any of the finger spinners.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Their spinner was interesting, he was getting the ball to drift miles. Watching him it was apparent that he had a very low arm at the release point. Those that faced him said he was relatively easy to play because of this - you knew he wasn't going to bowl anything in the way of variations. He had a long run-up which he came in at an angle from. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As he went through his action he seemed to be really low - either a massive delivery stride or his front leg was collapsing. He also veered all over the shop as he ran in and then over-rotated in the action and stopped abruptly in the follow through. That aside he seemed to be bowling pretty well. Unfortunately I didn't photograph their scorebook, so can't say how well he did do or whether he took any wickets.</span> <br />
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Some photos from the match...<br />
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Chelmsford CC pavilion<br />
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Galleywood CC pavilion<br />
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Joe dispensing the drinks to the Wrist Spinner<br />
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Joe waiting to bat alongside the scoreboard and a cherry tree in blossom<br />
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Spring cherry blossom<br />
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G-man all wrapped up for an early season cricket game.<br />
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G-Man on his way to bat with warm headgear.<br />
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<em></em><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBasildon, Essex, England52.145353740113073 -2.10937526.955712240113073 -43.417969 77.334995240113074 39.199219tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-22554892312490163512016-04-03T20:23:00.000+00:002016-04-03T20:43:03.702+00:00Joe's leg update.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I haven't posted anything about this for a while as it was going through the process of a court case. If you know about it and have been a follower for some years you'll remember it was around this time 4 years ago my younger son was run down on a pelican crossing by a young girl in a Ford KA. See the link below for the horrific injuries he sustained along with the Xrays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> This is the side of the leg that wasn't hit. The big scar at the bottom is where his leg bent so much before snapping, that the skin at this point stretched to the point where it split open. This was the gaping great hole in Joe's leg you'll see in the post above. The 2nd scar mid way up his lower leg is where the bone once it had snapped came through his skin was scraped along the road. The two small scars up near his knee are where the metal pins where put in and removed. The bulge on his shin may be due to the additional calcium growing where the bone grew back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, in September I made a start... see my </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtkyk-NkFTxMDscqPwDEPkg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Youtube channel here.</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> A big turning point came when <em>Tony M</em> a coach and contributor on Big Cricket contacted me directly and gave me some pointers and advice. My bowling then started to come together and by the end of November when winter set in properly it was looking very promising. Winter put a stop to the development and now I'm trying to play catch-up a little, slightly thwarted by the fact that so far the Easter break here in the UK has been crap as its a lot earlier in the year than usual. Fingers crossed the forecast from tomorrow onwards is for an improvement and I'll be able to work on some of the things I've made observations of in the video below. <strong>Double click on the image below to watch the video.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think the main thing is the lack of time at the moment given over to bowling practice. Conventional club nets sessions are useless because of the period of time between balls, so I need to set aside bowling time amongst all of the being put into developing my batting. I think if the time is given over to bowling, the changes will come along with improvements quite quickly. Looking at the video, there's a couple of things I know I should work on straight away... (1). The hip-drive and (2). The over rotation. I think with the hip drive, the over-rotation might come together as a consequence of working on the hip-drive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the start of the bowling action in the first phase PDS, I note in the video that my head turns to the side during the gather, I'm not sure if this is an issue or not, but it's something I'll keep an eye on though in the next sequence of videos which hopefully I'll shoot tomorrow. There are other issues such as not getting right up on the toes at FFC, but I'll leave that for the end of the coming week.</span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-34552793077421106842016-04-01T13:32:00.000+00:002019-01-06T17:47:58.308+00:00More pre-season nets<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As the start of the season approaches... 2 potential friendlies on 23rd and 30th April, we're looking to have a few nets sessions with the bowling machine and today saw the first of three we've got planned. If you're a regular on the blog or the big cricket forum you'll know that I can't bat and that my highest score ever is 16 against Orsett two years ago. There's been no improvement, as that year we were promoted up to a far better league and our team struggled. I had a couple of promising starts with scores of 11 and 14 that came far more fluently than my 16, but I was always let down by the bloke at the other end as I bat at either 10 or 11.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With those two double figure scores being thwarted in the usual no.10/11 way I sensed that the more positive approach to my batting that I'd adopted seemed to be paying off. It seemed to have come about by virtue of more practice with a more positive mind-set. The practice aspect was interesting as coming to the game so late in life, the chances to practice for instance with a bowling machine was non-existent and I figured that if I was able to have someone or something to put the ball in a specific area consistently I might have the chance to improve? I can't remember how it happened, but looking around I found a venue with a bowling machine that in late October was (1) empty and (2) relatively cheap and decided that I'd give it a go. In the worst case scenario, I might come away from a handful of sessions being less fearful of the ball I figured?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Better, still what I wanted was to move up the order a little... (8)? so that I had the chance to make a contribution with the bat. So back in October and through November and December Joe and I started to go to Writtle Cricket centre for an hour or two every fortnight with specific aims. On the first visit it soon became very apparent that this was the potential answer to the problem, the more balls you face the more likely you're going to be able to figure things out and make a fist of staying in and scoring a few runs. So over that period we've been working on playing with a straight bat and I've definitely made some advances which numerous people at the club have commented on having either seen the videos or my batting at pre-season nets at the club. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Although there seems to be a significant improvement whilst I know the balls coming into the legs, I found it a lot harder to maintain the discipline when the bowling was mixed up - different lengths, offside. legside and on the stumps, so there's still some work to do. </span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-37581265887723382482016-03-30T22:28:00.000+00:002019-01-06T17:56:03.613+00:00Kashmir bat update<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Following on from the previous posts...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is how the 3 bats that are currently being tested are doing. If you read back through the previous posts you'll see the details about how they were knocked in and prepared. They didn't knock in that well and seemed to be falling apart after a few hours, the Indian bat being the worse of the 3 (Plain bat - red handle). You'll see via the link that the <em>Indian</em> bat was also damaged during one of the net sessions using plastic balls. The bat was repaired using wood glue and then covered in Extratec tape and this does seem to have done the job. My younger son Joe is using it and it's holding up fine, showing no further damage at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jan 2019 - this bats is still holding up and Joe's still using it in the nets and in the 2nd XI games he played in last summer. It is starting to de-laminate now, but it still has a middle and he scores 4's and 6's with it quite easily. Not bad for a bat that cost £1.00 + postage!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As above... </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2019 - this bats is still around, but is rarely used, primarily because it just doesn't really have a middle to it and no real ping. In comparison with the £1.00 bat imported direct from India its the far lesser bat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, in conclusion after my fairly dim assessment a couple of months ago when I'd first started to use these bats, I'm going to have to back-track a bit and suggest that if the bats are knocked in fairly well (See previous posts - links above) and then covered with edge and surface tape, this gives what seems to be a fairly good level of protection. So, if you are someone who doesn't bat that often or well - tail-ender, these cheap Kashmir bats might be worth considering?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As we were packing up the sun came out, still looks nothing like spring - the trees still bare with no leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We took 50 balls, Joe bowled two lots of 50 and I had one bag of 50 as Joe didn't want to bat the second time (Wanted to get home and watch Youtube or play Black Ops). He bowled really well for the most part, Joe targeted my leg-stump as he knows that's my weak zone. Looking at the video below, this is very different to facing a bowling machine and there's a few obvious things I reckon I need to do. In comparison to batting against the machine, there's very little in the way of forward movement? I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">I reckon more work in the nets over the Easter Break trying to get forwards, maybe speed the bowling machine up, we've been working with it at 68mph at the most, maybe we should look to use it at 70mph? Maybe if I'm able to get used to that and still hit the ball, it'll be easier when it's a real bowler? It does seem to be very much a confidence thing, I've been batting so much better in the nets, hitting full tosses and generally just hitting the ball cleaner and this must be a consequence of the work done in the nets over the winter? </span><br />
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camera was set up behind the batsman and to the side at the other end to record
the approach to the crease, action and follow through. I managed to get some
footage of both before the battery died in the cold. I bowled 50 balls coming
off of a 14’ run-up. I then got home and played the footage back through
software that enabled me to view the action in slow motion. In relation to the
last action plan (see here) I’ve implemented very little because of the weather
and a reluctance to spend money on hiring indoor venues to practice the action.
Bowled in the nets on Tuesday night, too a good wicket. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feelings – </b>The
actual bowling seemed to go quite well and I would have had Joe bowled around
his legs, caught behind wicket keeper and stumped a number of times. So that
seemed okay, but felt wrong. The video once played back and looked at… That
made me a little depressed as there seems to have been a big backwards step.
But whilst feeling down about the current action I do feel as though it is
recoverable if I’m given the chance to correct it. I reckon a couple of tweaks
and I’ll be back on track. </span></div>
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was too full on Sunday, took some getting used to in order to pull it back,
would have be</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">en hit for plenty and in a 40 over game
might have been taken off after two overs? Once settled too plenty of wicket
especially stumping off of Joe trying to charge me and hit the ball before it
bounced. Joe was very successful at this in the nets on Tuesday night – batted
really well, but would have fallen eventually. Bad – the action; the bound
looks bad, BFC was angled so bowling action was very front on with little
pivot. The stride was short and the front leg collapsed at FFC. </span></div>
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alluded to above, I think the whole thing can be recovered given some proper
time to practice without the use of a ball, just focusing on the bowling
action. Looking at the video footage there are some glaring deficiencies. As I
go into the bound there seems to be a lack of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">setting up</i> in order to facilitate the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">getting side on</i> aspect. Which means as I land out of the bound BFC
is angled and my body is too <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">front on</i>
and lacks the side on attributes that I should be aiming for. The stride is
then pretty weak e.g. short. The rest of the action looks fairly okay other
than occasionally there’s a fade to the left through the follow-through like
Mushatq Ahmed. The whole thing looks as though it lacks oomph and dynamism, but
I reckon it wouldn’t take a lot of work to correct it. As mentioned previously,
fitness is currently an issue, the weather hasn’t been that conducive with
getting out and about. In addition the last two weeks I’ve felt as though I’m
on the verge of coming down with a cold or something, if you believe in
biorhythms I’d say that it may be something to do with that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">All that aside, it is Easter and I’ve got two weeks off now
to work on all of these aspects and if the last 2 weeks was the down-side of
the biorhythmic pattern, the coming days should see an improvement of all
things physical? One note of caution I’ve got to do some digging and labouring
in the next few days, so that’s going to kill me unless I’m fitter than think,
but at 56 I reckon I’ll be a bit sore after a few days of lugging around paving
stones and pebbles. </span></div>
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needs to be improved, more likely if the weather gets better and enable me to
get out in it. Bowling action needs to be worked on – particularly and foremost
- getting side-on coming out of the bound.</span></div>
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and practice with Joe as much as possible over the coming two weeks especially
at Mopsies. Set aside specific time to work on the bowling action without the
use of the ball. Film the bowling action without the ball. Start to do cardio
work and leg work to build up strength and stamina with lower body specificity.
Get back on the upper body work too. Reflect on progress mid-week (30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-34305874830890739852016-03-12T21:20:00.004+00:002016-03-12T21:20:45.555+00:00The Paddock 2016?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the end of last year possibly because of the involvement of the estate association who are looking to improve the estate, the paddock fence was completely removed (See link <a href="http://www.mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-paddock-under-threat.html" target="_blank">here</a> for over-view and images) rendering it totally useless virtually. We can't bat on it anymore as 3 sides to the paddock are woods and the balls will just disappear into the trees and be lost at £5 a go. The local kids can't play football in there for the same reason, so they're screwed as well. All of which completely baffles me when - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/statistics-and-causes-of-the-obesity-epidemic-in-the-UK.aspx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, the question is do we bother to use it this year and could we use it in any useful way given that there seems to be a massive concerted effort to prevent anyone using it in useful way other than as somewhere they can let their dogs s**t?</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-65001271691025092722016-03-12T20:57:00.001+00:002016-03-12T20:57:49.780+00:00Pre-season practice/training<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The wind, rain and cold weather has abated for the weekend meaning we could get out at last and have a knock about. Last week club nets was cancelled because the school were using the nets for exams and Joe's not scheduled to have his last South Essex District training till this coming Thursday. So we've been short on cricket. With the temperature at 11 degrees and the sun trying to shin through a thin veil of haze we made our way over to the Markham's Chase cage just in case it was empty. As per usual it wasn't, but to be fair we could have used it batting at the 'House' end hitting the ball towards the fields, but Joe's always reluctant to for some reason if there's people in there so we moved on to The Rec and practiced there instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Joe as per usual wasn't that up for it, but he came along and initially bowled, but had to do so off of a short run-up so bowled off-breaks (Finger spin). My batting seemed okay and we used a couple of balls - bouncy ones and rock-hard hockey balls which hardly bounce at all, did okay against both. I'm hitting the ball far cleaner this year, I just seem to see it these days and I noticed that I hit almost every full toss whereas full tosses previously I've struggled with. So again I have to say I'm quite optimistic about the idea of batting further up the order this season and beating my all time best score which is a paltry 16!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Good/Bad (Evaluation) </b>- Bad... There was some leg-side rubbish towards the end, where I was trying to bowl top-spinners. Good stuff, generally as mentioned before it came together fairly quickly and felt good and was obviously much faster than I was bowling last year. When the top-spinners did come out right they caused Joe some real problems with the extra bounce. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Analysis</b> - I definitely need to do a couple of things. During this session I wasn't consciously thinking about getting up on my toes, so I'm not sure how well I was doing that at BR (Ball release), the other aspect that may need to be looked at is the delivery stride? Other than it all felt really good and the ball was turning off the surface and was on a nice length, Joe was having to come down the crease to hit on the full and in doing so if it turned or he timed it wrong he'd have been stumped numerous times, so in a way a big improvement over the club net session where he was coming down the wicket and smashing it while it was still in the air. Legs feel (as I suspected) as if they need some work on them, upper body strength is good, press-ups and planks are seeing to that along with some other stuff I'm doing that I picked up from<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA89t3X0MlU" target="_blank"> Cricket Strengths</a> website. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, hopefully we'll have another fine early spring day tomorrow and with a bit of luck we might get out early and perhaps get in the cage at Markham's Chase for a session?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-88317412100193245422016-02-21T22:09:00.002+00:002016-02-21T22:09:36.824+00:00Maidenbower cricket pavilion near Crawley Sussex<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is another of the Pavilions I shot last week. This one is in Maidenbower Drive, Maidenbower, near Crawley, West Sussex. I've done some research, but haven't been able to ascertain whether it's anyone's club base. It's almost certainly a council run building and looking around it's use has been changed in recent years and it now runs seemingly as a community centre. There's an existing image from 2008 on the Google maps website see </span><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.105617,-0.151518,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s10028293!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2F60ZHdGZQlEmw9QzwpKpU83-W3_Dz_rObkIYq1JBTJds7R64kQScHIQt9GxD8jnNhivjJzlotl3fXJKuLY6GtxeOkFj5xHg%3Dw203-h152!7i1600!8i1200?hl=en-GB" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> of the building in its previous incarnation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So this image here above is the current version of the Maidenbower pavilion (Feb 2016) if you look at the link above, the original version was so much better aesthetically, designed in the classic style of a cricket pavilion. I would imagine the architect who designed the original building was mortified when he/she saw this modified version. For the moment the cricket pitch still remains, apparently without it's own caring team, so by my reckoning its days are probably numbered as the local community seems to care very little for the game of cricket despite the fact that cricket is one of the games that this country plays well and since 1966 has been world beaters on a number of occasions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whilst researching I came across a forum where there was a lot of discussion about the rights and wrongs of how this park area is managed and this is completely indicative of the issues that surround such facilities that are new and have no cricket history. This thread here </span><a href="http://www.maidenbower.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14262"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.maidenbower.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14262</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> has a discussion between someone with football interests and another who seems to be sticking up for the cricketers, but isn't a cricket player themselves. I have to admit that all of the pitches in this area were absolutely sodden with loads of standing water. The better pitches further afield were far better, but again these were pitches that have been around for generations and maintained to a far higher degree. Cricket in towns does seem to struggle against all sorts of issues and this is a good example of the issues that arise through conflict of interest and the facilities not being designated for any length of time to a club that cares. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It does seem that cricket is played on this wicket but no team has it as its home base. Reading the forum link above it also seems a similar situation stands for the football teams and that Crawley council do not allocate pitches to local teams as such. One of the points that neither of the forum writers doesn't seem to take into account is the H&S aspect relating to cricket. It's made with regards to football e.g. teams shouldn't be allowed to play on the pitches if they're 'wet' as people will skid and break bones. But they don't seem to realise that the wicket has to be maintained because of the nature of the game of cricket and the inherent increased need for H&S...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The idea being that he was looking to get the batsman to drive through the space between point and extra cover and get an edge through to 2,3,4 or 5 with the protection of 3rd man at 6 for balls that get through. He bowled well and came away with 3 wickets, all of them going through to slips or the wicket keeper as planned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Joe discussing the field settings with one of the Essex coaches (Scott).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This one is very different to the previously posted. One of the things I was initially looking at and exploring with this project was the fact that the smaller the local population, the bigger the clubhouse and the bigger the population the poorer the facilities. For instance the previously posted Bolney - beautiful ground and lovely traditional pavilion serving a population of 1200 people and here we have the Tilgate playing field pavilion in Crawley West Sussex - probably 25 miles away, with a population of 110,000 and they can only muster up this...</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37030879.post-57996864160277807652016-02-19T21:54:00.000+00:002016-02-19T21:54:05.245+00:00Pavilion project update<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Bolney CC Pavilion </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I spent yesterday driving around the Crawley area looking for Pavilions for my Typology project and managed to shoot 10 - 11 new pavilions which I'll upload in time. The best of the day was this one at Bolney just off the M23. This was a lovely little pitch adjacent to a church and an old school. Looking quickly at their website I discovered that this building was built in 2004 and as you can see they've opted quite rightly to stick to a traditional design...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The other pavilions shot and added so far can be found here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Despite the fact that the Rec is wrecked we persevered again as did a couple of women who were practicing netball and couple of other kids who were practicing basketball at the same time. We spent about an hour and half and it went nowhere near as well as last week and I couldn't figure it out, until I got back in the car and realised actually I might still be a little fuzzy in the head from last nights night out at a wedding? I'm using that as an excuse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had a bowl and that went okay. I think I need to do some of the practice again outside my house with grooving the run up a bit, as I was stuttering a little sometimes and needed to focus on the new run-up approach in order for it to be smooth and functioning properly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I worked on getting on the toes a little as that's something I don't do well enough and when I do, do it the ball turns far more. The lifting on the toes at the moment feels a little unnatural and I need to bring it together with the rest of the new action before nets start. With that in mind I also need to be working on my Achilles but I've been warned about the potential for injury based on the fact that I generally practice on hard surfaces. Apparently if you practice consistently on a hard surface this affects the way your Achilles functions, and then when you start practicing on a flexible/soft surface such as grass early in the season, this massively increases the chance of sustaining injury. See the link below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Was the venue for a practice today for Joe and I </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is a vid from a few years ago when the place was in a fairly good condition when the fences were sound and the tarmac in reasonable condition. In the last few years Basildon Council have seemingly let it fall into a state of disrepair which is a real shame as there's very few places in the area where you can play ball games within a fairly large area and contain the ball. It seems really daft when the government are aware that the population is increasingly sedentary and inactive and obesity and the likes means the NHS pick up the cost - that's paid through taxes. But, how is anyone going to engage in sport if the facilities are not there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Anyway that aside - what with the surface being so rough I thought it might be a challenge to try and bat on it and sure enough it was. The surface is badly damaged by frost and is ROUGH so with Joe bowling Off-Breaks using relatively bouncy Bola balls (Red ones) I had problems. Right Arm Off-Spin is one of the things I come across a lot as a tail ender and is one of the things I really struggle with so this challenge is one of the key ones I need to come up with solutions to. In the end I came up with a couple of solutions...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">(1). Standing right on the edge of the crease if not just out of it which is risky, but I seemed to be pulling it off the majority of the time by giving myself a far better chance of getting to the pitch of the ball and either hitting it cleanly or just smothering it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">(2). Again - staying with the same stance and position just outside of the crease - creep forwards a touch encouraging the bowler to bowl fuller and then hitting on the full with a drive or stepping back if it was short and cutting it off the back foot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">As I said for the most part it worked and I was probably successful 19 out of 20 times during which I was hitting the ball effectively - meaning that I'd be making runs and getting off of strike, all of which is a massive improvement on previous years. I'm definitely hitting the ball exponentially more than I have ever done and doing so with far more confidence so I'm really looking forward to May when the season starts. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com