Frank Duckworth died recently at the age of 84. He was actually 89, but he was set a revised target after a break for rain in the 1990s.
I used to enjoy playing Cricket at school, and always helped out at my boys school when they played Cricket out of Rugby season, but have never understood the scoring. Other parents would help with the scoresheet, I’d be handing out the refreshments and strapping on pads. They had a bit of a secret weapon against other schools though, as before the Girls had their own matches and team the teams were effectively mixed. England’s Charlie Dean played for the school at the same time as my boys, and showed everyone, and I mean everyone, up. “She took five wickets on her debut for the Portsmouth Grammar School boys’ first XI in 2017, a year after captaining Hampshire Under-15s to victory in the Royal London County Cup.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Dean We know her parents quite well so tend to try and keep up to date with her career, and in doing so I think I've learnt more about the sport than I've ever known.
I worked with a guy who had a BSc in Mathematics & Computer Science along with a PhD on Optimising Networks during which he did a project on the DLS method and he still didn't have much of an idea on how it worked.
Getting a Pfeiffer on your debut is class, but doing against the opposite sex is the icing on the cake.
We tied rather than won a rain affected match earlier this season due to both of the captains misunderstanding how to calculate a revised target using DLS.
Yeah was pondering that as I wrote but the non cricketing types wouldn't have understood, anyway I'm sure you can score 5, is it hitting a helmet that's on the floor ?
" 5 penalty runs are awarded to the batting side if the ball, while in play, strikes a fielding team's helmet that is on the ground" Possibly still ' extras ' and not a boundary which was the original 'question'
That’s penalty runs. I played a match as a ringer for another team at Bamville CC a few years ago where they have a huge oak or horse chestnut tree on the outfield and (IIRC) if you hit that, it’s also 5. The ground is also part of a golf course (but quite rightly the cricket takes priority) and a public road forms one of the boundaries, so hitting moving vehicles is probably a fairly regular occurrence. Proper “village”!
In theory at least, you can run as many as you like and social media is full of clips of calamitous village cricket fielding where the batsmen manage to run 8 or 9. I’ve seen a 7 in real life - the batsmen ran 3 and then when the fielder threw the ball in to the keeper it took a really awkward bounce off the surface and went to the square leg boundary for 4 overthrows.
3 teams down this way have been banned from playing due to someone being hit: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2077915/uk-village-fumes-council-bans-cricket-essex
Tbf, looking at the photos, the car park where the member of the public says he was hit is literally on the boundary and there’s no protection. “The proposals on the table at the moment are either to essentially put up nets, which would be, as it stands, 20 metres high at a cost of around £100,000, which is just completely prohibitive for the council and us” £100k? ‘Ow much?!?! Our ground has a house on the boundary so we have temporary catch fencing up during the season in order to protect it and it’s just a few long poles with netting, so quite how they arrived at such an exorbitant figure is beyond me.
Yep, and note she was playing in the First XI, which is mainly the upper 6th 17/18yr old boys, a year after captaining Hampshire Under-15s to victory, so was just 16yrs old.
Currently sat at home with an Open Reach technician as he rebuilds my home phone installation. I only phoned BT on Friday to ask where the Digital Voice port was on my router and they went into overdrive when they saw I had a problem on my telephone line that I didn’t know I had. The technician has renewed the ancient wiring from outside the house to a new box inside the house and now he’s gone up to the cabinet at the end of my road to chase the as yet undiagnosed problem. Undiagnosed because the test equipment can’t see the exchange which is only a mile up the road If he can fix it, I’m told my broadband download speed should increase from the poultry single figure Mb/s to 67 Mb/s I’m now asking myself how long I must have been putting up with the s**t service ? Andy
I'm still on an ADSL connection with 10 Mb/s & 1.04 Mb/s speeds which are more than fast enough for watching youtube concerts etc. I reckon there is way too much emphasis on internet speeds which are only really required for real time heavy visual interactions e.g. games or downloading massive GB work files etc or multiple users in the same house. Btw you can check your line speeds at https://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/
Completed all the jobs around the house and some good time spent with the kids, yesterday evening managed to get out for an hour. Roads were quiet, sunset was amazing. Good times. What a machine! Off to bike night at the H cafe tonight before a 4 day trip to Copenhagen tomorrow.
Apparently I have a dry joint/break in one wire between me and the cabinet 250 yards up the road. Technician has departed to visit the 2 remaining calls on his job card and will return mob handed with a view to checking joints in every inspection pit between me and the cabinet Andy
