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’ve arrived at such an exorbitant figure is beyond me.
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.
