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Re Ryan McCarter
I don't want to jump on the CIYMS bandwagon, but I can't help but wonder what the 'real clubmen' think of the current situation at a club where almost all the overs (40 of the overs were bowled by Hewitt, Heasley,Fourie, Gelson and Coverdale) and the entire top six batsmen (all of the above plus Barry Cooper)from Saturdays game against North Down are 'mercenaries' with the rest of the 'CI based' players seemingly making up the numbers?
I know there is an argument for pushing a club on to be the best that it can be but personally I would take absolutely no satisfaction from this artificial success if my team (Templepatrick)took this approach- where are the long term benefits- if the money went you can be damm sure so will those players and then what will be left?
P Coverdale playing for CIYMS yesterday, is that the guy came to Carrick from Northants? How many outsiders is that now!?
TAYTO PUT 10£ EACH ON EMPOWERED 540 DONCASTER & FARNCOMBE 515 GOODWOOD & 1O£ DOUBLE U MIGHT WIN ENUFF TOO PAY ME 40£/ PS CANT BELIEVE U WORK IN A BANK & DONT PAY YUR DEBTS GREAT PUBLICITY FOR THE HALIFAX .LOL
hughesy, that was a slip of the tongue i meant to type the money that jeff thinks i owe him
Taito, I think that is the first time I ever heard you admit you do actually owe money!!!
J rock working hard as usual then? no doubt it is a good rule, i think the time alloted mght be the issue just.
I was just thinking this is the first time i have started a sensible debate on here, its usually me and jeff talking rubbish about the money i owe him.
OFF 2 PUNCHESTOWN At 1PM, ANDY . 4PADDYDEPLASTERER VERY GOOD JUST HAD BAD DAY JUMPING . NAP SOLWIT 530, NB COPPER BLEU 640, EWAY ROBERTO GOLDBACK605 / HOLD THE PIN 420 / RAVENS RUN 455 . GL JARLATH 3 05 IS PLENTY TIME I WILL PAY ARE TEAMS FINE IF WE OVER ( BUT NOT WEN RODNEY CAPT)
ps i feel that this is an excellent rule. they may be a debate about 3hours 5 or 3 hours 15 but the positive bit is that teams are penalised there and then instead of at a meeting some weeks later - and removes the situation of appeal and counter appeal
i personally am using a stopwatch - so anything that occurs that is not in the natural playing remit eg injury / lost ball / a runner being requested etc i stop the watch. This will nulify any batting team from purposely trying to take up time, not that any batsman would dream of doing that.
Big Davy, i can assure you that there was no delaying tactics by us batting first against laurelvale , we were as surprised as they were when they got penalised.
It will not only apply to the team fielding first, the same rule applies to the side fielding second too. The other thing is that even although we were bowled out in 47.3 overs laurelvale were still penalised as they had gone over the alloted time
Wayne - if team bowling second pass the mark, 6 runs added to batting team's score. So you could have situation where team needs less than 6 to win, and they will win the match if the 50th over hasnt started before 3hr 5 mins is up. Could be interesting if a team where 9 wickets down with an over to go needing 4 or 5 to win
Shouldnt be any 20 20 matches for a good while yet. First nine games of season get two cracks at match one before match 2 comes into effect, so effectively 2020 match is Match 3 in first half of the season.
Wayne :
3hrs 5 mins should be enough for 20/20 cricket this year, even CSNI!!!
ref: 3 hr 5 min rule
surely this rule could be open to abuse by the side batting first. There's various forms of time wasting that could hamper the fielding side, backing away not ready as the bowler approaches, changing gloves/bat, fixing pads, needing a drink, moving sightscreens etc. Laurelvale were penalised 18 runs against Downpatrick for slow over rate . If Cliftonville adopt this tactic we'll easily replace JTs runs from last season. Only slagging big man, have a good season.
Looks like we could have a Twenty20 league this year. Are you allowed to play 2 games on one day if the weather looks good?? You could squeeze a full league programme in at Comber some sunday!!
Re the 3 hr 5 min rule, just out of curiousity what happens if the team bowling second is very slow?
may dad jimmy died 8 years ago but everytime i played at woodvale or umpired he always asked me to send his regards to billy dempster. regards to the dempster family
