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Can we have our ball back, please?

By Emma 2 years ago, at the start of September Leave a comment on this post

Some things never change, whether you are playing for school, club or country. It’s one of cricket’s charms.

Every cricket club needs understanding neighbours. There is more than one landmark case documenting the kind of troubles that can arise when a big hitting batsman decides to go aerial. So when a resident of Chelmsford was confronted with Lancashire’s twelfth man hanging over her fence this evening, it was nice to see her smilingly poke around her garden to lend a hand.

Unfortunately, as Chelmsford lacks the huge stadia of an international ground, the local houses seem to be fair game. As such, it took two attempts to find a ball of the appropriate age.

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One Response to “Can we have our ball back, please?”

  • Clancy wrote:
    September 8th, 2006 at 7.33 am

    Something related to neighbours and club cricket:
    Several clubs in Melbourne have strange ground dimensions thanks to the grounds being used by Australian Football teams, which prefer an oval for the game. Now of course, a perfect ground should be a cirlce, but this isn’t really the case in this story. In the end you have short boundaries down the ground, whilst very long square boundaries.

    Anyway, a club called Canterbury has blacklisted sixes directly down the ground, simply enough residents on the short boundaries are sick of cricket balls flying into their front yards and causing damage. One case was a new car had it’s windsheild cracked, replaced, and then broken once again a week later. Compensation payouts for the club became too large, so sixes down the ground are now ‘dead balls’.

    Tad unfortunate for those who love to free the arms against spinners.


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