Judith

I was scoring at #cricket tonight. My first time. 😬

I was using the Play Cricket scoring app, which means people at home could follow along ball-by-ball.

Thankfully, I had two experienced scorers alongside me. One using a traditional scoring book and annotating the pairs cricket differences; the other using a pairs cricket scoresheet - so it was reassuring when we all had the same score at the end of each over. 😀

It's now over a year since I joined this Cricket and Rugby club. They're a great bunch and it's wonderful that they're so welcoming of a middle aged woman who is not particularly good at sport but is happy to get stuck in. 🙂

Oh. PS. We won, which is nice but doesn't seem to be the most important thing to any of them.

#SportForAll

May 19 at 8:57pmWeb
Show threadlouisa_ :)May 19

@aroundthehills my brother was/is really into cricket so I learned to both play and score from him in my early teens. I played for my (all girls) school for the brief time we had a team but I much preferred the scoring. I'd make up games in my head to practise at home 😀

How nice you've found a good group. Do they have a women's/mixed team?

Show threadJudithMay 19

@louisa_

Yes, I joined the club in order to play Women's Softball Pairs cricket. I'd played (standard hardball) cricket up until a few years ago but that was for a team that was much younger and I was really feeling my age. Also, that team was in Warrington so I'd have to drive and it could be a nightmare to get there if the M56 was gridlocked.

I can get to this club on my bike and the age range is much greater. We have a few youngsters but most are in their 30s with several in their 40s and a few of us oldies in our 50s. In fact, there's at least one in her 60s!

The cricket is competitive but good natured.

Show threadSimonMMay 19
@aroundthehills Did you catch the error by the scorers in the Kent v Durham match at the weekend? One of the Kent batters was on the scoreboard as 181 not out overnight. He was dismissed within a few balls of the following morning with a final score of 180.
Show threadJudithMay 19
@Simon_M No, I didn't see that. What was the reason for the anomaly?
Show threadSimonMMay 20
@aroundthehills I haven't seen an official account, but the radio commentary reckoned it was because the two batters looked similar and had the same stickers on their bats, that a run was attributed to one batter when it should have gone to the other.
Show threadJudithMay 20

@Simon_M 🤦

Last night, the opposition's final pair were sisters and looked very similar. I had to keep telling myself "M - Pink flashes on shoulder. L - White flashes on trousers".

Even then, I got the strike wrong in the final over and had to correct it.