A question for cricketers or cricket fans

[Dogtrousers]

Oddly enough I don't have any memory at all of playing cricket at school. I mean, I must have done, it was definitely a required thing. I can remember the spiky gloves. But actually playing? Nope. I must have been particularly successful at getting out of/skiving cricket.

I do like watching it though. And yes, I do know what the positions are, mostly.

 

[Profpointy]

Yes but wicket keeper and slip are pretty easy to understand without much knowledge.

You only need to know mid on, mid off, point, cover, mid wicket.

Square leg and fine leg are self explanatory.
Gully is just a wider slip,

And Third man is where you hide the no hoper.

After that it’s just deeper, finer, longer, shorter, wider.

My favourite descriptor is Silly, which is again self explanatory to anyone who has ever fielded there.

I remember a game at primary school with a very silly, silly mid-off. He was so close he got smacked across the head with the bat. It made a sickening thud which I can still remember 50+ years later. Amazingly the lad seemed pretty much unscathed once he got up again though it must have really hurt.

 

[Beebo]

I remember a game at primary school with a very silly, silly mid-off. He was so close he got smacked across the head with the bat. It made a sickening thud which I can still remember. Amazingly the lad seemed pretty much unscathed once he got up again though it must have really hurt

We had a wicketkeeper who was up at the stumps. The batter pulled to square leg and followed through taking out the keepers front teeth and breaking his nose.
Blood everywhere. PE lesson cancelled!

 

[T4tomo]

We had a wicketkeeper who was up at the stumps. The batter pulled to square leg and followed through taking out the keepers front teeth and breaking his nose.
Blood everywhere. PE lesson cancelled!

keepers fault - stood too close!

I had a batsman sway out of the way of a ball that reared up at him off a length, I saw it very late, didn't get my gloves up in time and took it on the forehead! it wasnt a thing to wkt keep in helmet in those days.

 

[Alex321]

keepers fault - stood too close!

I had a batsman sway out of the way of a ball that reared up at him off a length, I saw it very late, didn't get my gloves up in time and took it on the forehead! it wasnt a thing to wkt keep in helmet in those days.

I took a cricket ball to the forehead in the nets once. Ball slipped from bowlers hand and came at me as a beamer. I tried to duck under it, but didn't make it. Had a bloody big lump there a few minutes later, but didn't seem to be any other damage.

 

[newts]

I broke a finger & snapped the tendons trying to catch a ball fielding at cover about 30 years ago. It was operated on a few days later using a wire to pull the tendon back up & threaded through a hole drilled in my finger tip. The wire was twisted around a button on my fingernail to keep it in place. 6 weeks later they pulled the wire out, that didn't half make my eyes twitch😲

 

[pjd57]

Not really. There are only about 8 positions. Everything else is just a variation.

Is this still about cricket ?

 

[Beebo]

Is this still about cricket ?

You must be very flexible.

 

[T4tomo]

You must be very flexible.

potentially very rigid surely?