Introduce yourself

[Harold Smith]

Hey Everyone
I'm Harry, I'm 16 and from the sunny south of England. I started playing cricket at the age of 9 and recently retired last year after dropping 3 catches in one game for my school, I'm worse than Phil Tuffnel. I use to bowl very slow medium pace which would bore the batsmen to sleep and cause him to miss by slower ball disguised as a full toss.

I'm a massive cricket fan, I've got a Wisden cricket subscription which I highly recommend, my first live game was KP first as Captain against SA at the Oval, we got them all out for 173 I think, I'm a kent fan in practice, I've seen them at T-20 but I'm mainly into international cricket.

And yes despite being young I despise Twenty Twenty

[Cam]

Im 28, from Melbourne Australia!

Ive played this game since the very first one years and years ago, I have also always been apart of the forum whether it just being looking or actually having proper conversations.

Ive also played cricket since I was about 10, currently I play 4s at my local club due to me working till 2pm every saturday so I cant play in the 1s.
We won the Flag last year aswell!!

[Graham_5000]

It is great to hear all of your experiences of cricket!

[DWJP]

Hey everyone,

I loved the idea of the story threads so much that I just posted my own straight away, but should have introduced myself.
My name is Daragh, it's Irish, I'm from London and as you might have guessed, I'm a massive Ireland fan, if they aren't given test cricket soon we'll take to the streets! I'm also a Middlesex fan, but love test cricket, something about it which gets me angry when others say it is boring!
I love to play cricket, I'm jack of all trades and master of none, I love to wicket keep, but I also like to take the gloves off and bowl some off-spin, though I've lost what I once had. Known as a leg-side player I've tried to become a test batsman by just not slogging and hitting singles to the off-side!

Just graduated from university with a history degree, so enjoying a summer of cricket!
Hope to talk to you all soon.

[DaveK93]

Hey everyone,

I loved the idea of the story threads so much that I just posted my own straight away, but should have introduced myself.
My name is Daragh, it's Irish, I'm from London and as you might have guessed, I'm a massive Ireland fan, if they aren't given test cricket soon we'll take to the streets! I'm also a Middlesex fan, but love test cricket, something about it which gets me angry when others say it is boring!
I love to play cricket, I'm jack of all trades and master of none, I love to wicket keep, but I also like to take the gloves off and bowl some off-spin, though I've lost what I once had. Known as a leg-side player I've tried to become a test batsman by just not slogging and hitting singles to the off-side!

Just graduated from university with a history degree, so enjoying a summer of cricket!
Hope to talk to you all soon.

Great choice of degree, I'm on history and politics myself :P

Whereabouts did you study?

[ab5ides1]

Wow, interesting thread so far.

I'm 17, live in South Australia (yes, home of the worst Australian FC team in the last half a decade), never really been into playing sports competitively (I play cricket most Fridays with some younger kids at a youth group) so haven't ever played in a proper game of cricket. I always enjoyed trying to spin the ball, but I've never been all that good at it. I'm a decent medium/medium-fast bowler at my church group though and I got some coaching lessons from a guy who played club cricket with Ashley Mallet back in the day which was really informative and taught me a lot of things about how to bowl with a proper action so I'm more accurate than I used to be. My batting is pretty average, and I tend to make Afridi-like scores at my youth group (smashing it everywhere until I miss one, which is usually pretty early).

So yeah, very much more into following cricket rather than actually playing it. I have a part of my bookshelf dedicated to cricket, was one of those guys who bought 10 boxes of weet-bix to get a promotional cap and I own every edition of the ICC game from 05 onwards (excluding 2007). Education-wise I'm almost done with high school and looking forward to doing some sort of chemistry/engineering-based course at university next year.

Also I hate my username, damn 13 year-old me...

[KGKOOLKAT777]

Haha, I don't know. NSW would give them a run for their money!!

[q felt]

Haha, I don't know. NSW would give them a run for their money!!

It's really no contest, SA were last in each of the last 4 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Shield

[DWJP]

Great choice of degree, I'm on history and politics myself :P

Whereabouts did you study?

Hey Dave, my degree was practically history and politics, I was forced to do so many politics modules, despised them haha.

I studied at Brunel University in west London. Yourself?