heater31 wrote:beeroclock wrote:Dogwatcher wrote:Scenes from a lower grade match on the weekend:
* I faced a deadset chucker.
* The chucker, at one stage, changed his run up and zig-zagged behind the umpire so I thought he was going to go around the wicket. So I pulled away. He stood to the side of the pitch and glared at me. Seriously, mate? You're lucky we even allowed you to bowl.
* Spin bowler decides he's going to change the field just as I'm about to settle over the bat. He makes three changes, skipper makes a change or two, just I thought it was all over, the keeper makes a few changes. All in all, it took about five minutes. The bowler then asks me, "are you ready?"
* Number nine batsman comes to the wicket and says to me, "just letting you know, the next bloke in has no idea with the bat". Having seen the number nine in the nets, I knew we were in trouble.
I saw a chucker at lower level district cricket 3 weeks ago.
Medium pacer.
It was a disgrace.
How do you fix the problem? Lower Grade Cricket do not have the access to resources that the First Class players do. Plenty of blokes over the years have suspect actions.
I don't think you can which is horrid.
It's sort of becoming immune.
I opened the the bat and I remember a few years ago facing a first change bowler after seeing off a dozen of each from the openers.
Anyway this bloke comes in and let's the first one go and I thought out loud as I usually would what the FWT.
Now I've seen a lot of cricket and it totally stunned me.
Toss bag bowled me a full toss next ball that I politely smashed straight back at his head only for him to take evasive action and protect his face.
Guess what, the wank caught the ball directly in front of his face.
Ffs.
Bowler went on to play A1 cricket and continued on his merry way.