Neighbourhood Cricket Matches: It Still Happens
I was fortunate enough to go back to my home town of Perth, Western Australia for the Australia Day long weekend. On a sunny afternoon, with the Fremantle Doctor providing some relief, my brother Ash organised a neighbourhood match. After the obligatory 1/2 hour of dilly dallying while picking teams, it was on. We won by about 50 runs - as is normally the case no one really kept track of the score at the end.
One thing that struck me were the fact that the boys (age ranging from 12 to 30*) was that they just couldn’t keep still. Players waiting to bat, practiced in the nets, others played soccer. I could do the usual thing and analyse how video games, TV (Aussies were playing India in the 4th test that day, by the way) hadn’t affected these kids. But it was just great fun.
By the way, I scored 1 run from 5 balls; dropped a catch that went for six; and went 0-6 of two overs. Urghh.
This is where we played:
* I was the 30 year old
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