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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
So Susy, do you bat or bowl?  |
Hi David, I used to do both, but I enjoyed batting more. I often used to get the brothers and hubby out with my bowling.
I haven't played in years though. Wobbly on the bowling last I played. But I never forgot how to swing a bat. There is real artistic beauty in a batting stroke
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I used to go and watch a lot of the Toombul Club matches wherever they were played (such a groupie) and also with the Greg Chappell Cricket Centre connection, I had gotten to know Trevor Hohns fairly well. His wife (I believe she was captaining at the time from memory) was playing for Toombul Womens Cricket, invited me by letter to play for them. But alas I declined. It got to the stage those missile balls left me asking myself important questions on life and death
. I started playing with the tennis ball more.
However, that was only part of it. I was a very serious cricket statistician at the time. Nowadays it is easy - computers do all the work on the telly. But nothing beats punching in all those scores & averages yourself and knowing the big ones were coming up. I used to write articles as well (for my own reference). I could map out every field on a piece of paper blind folded.
My saddest day came, when a certain member of my family decided to clean out the underneath of the house, and my one box full of cricket stuff and everything else within site down stairs got taken to the dump without knowledge to the rest of the family, my mother included. So there went a lot of hard and memorable work. All that's left is one scrapbook album on John Dyson and his letter & photo to me. Anyway, no sorry's about that please, it's all in the past, lets smile and have some fun
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