Re: Smith's Crew in SA
Reply #102 –
Funnily (?) enough, I have found the older (45+) more likely to sledge and carry on like idiots, not realising they are now playing the lowest 2 day grade in the comp.
The only fight I have ever seen at cricket was between the opposition team, where one player threw a stump at his team mate and then chased him around with another. There have been several that I have heard of (including one where the whole offending club was kicked out of the comp)
Funniest things that I have seen playing cricket include (excluding in-house stories)
- a group of medieval fighters all dressed up doing their thing. It stopped our game for about 15 minutes as we all watched
- a guy riding a trail bike, not realising it was on fire until we were all shouting at him. He got off pretty quick and proved he was a good sprinter - didn't come back for the bike.
- fire brigade coming to put out a fire about 10 metres from the fine leg boundary, and only way to access was across the oval. Fine leg fielder decided that they only needed to save the single rather than be on the boundary
I never played cricket but reading your post makes me wish I had.
My Dad was a pretty good cricketer and one of my favourite mementos of him is a bat signed by his teammates and with a little plaque commemorating his 100th catch in a season for Coburg RSL. He was on Carlton's list for a while but never managed to crack it for a game in the District team and went back to his mates at the RSL. I wish I had recorded his cricket stories.