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RE: Blast From the Past - Part 7 - Backyard Cricket
This is pretty much the reality of growing up in NZ/Aus. Every kid's backyard had its own rules....and every kid had one neighbour whose yard you didn't want to climb into to get your ball back.
Things got interesting when we started taping up tennis balls with black electrical tape to give 'em a bit of a seam, or make 'em swing like Wasim Akram.
When Shane Warne came onto the scene, I remember facing nothing but back-yard leggies for a whole summer....
Haha yeah it would be interesting to know if it's as popular in other countries where cricket is popular sport.
For us it was either cricket or kicking the footy.
Yeah that was the good thing about backyard cricket, ball tampering :D
lol when warney came on to the scene everyone was bowling the old spinners, sometimes I would aim for a overgrown bit of grass off to the side for that extra spin
Yeah my mate used to get the garden hose and water a spot overnight just outside leg stump :-)
Never too young for pitch doctoring!
Haha good one, I never did that trick.