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Re: Fast Bowlers

Gareth I totally agree. When I mentioned fast bowlers in my last post I didnt mean fast as in Guneratne or fast in county cricket. If we are talking about pure pace then Connell would be deemed as Medium Fast. Unfortunately there is a shortage of fast bowlers in Ireland and I think it is mainly to do with the wickets being a lot slower. There is more incentive and "buzz" for younger players when they see the ball having carry and pace on a nice hard bouncy track. I know when I was younger and bowled on a hard track I wanted to bowl as quick as I could but then the following week I put the effort in and it just held up. I reckon if kids got pace out of the wickets then they'd try a whole lot harder and aspire to be pace bowlers.

re: fast bowlers

I have to agree with Taito on this. All of the bowlers mentioned are good medium pace bowlers, but definitely not fast bowlers. I've seen 'Staffy' bowler a quicker ball than some of them!
Even in the premier league you could currently count the number of 'fast' bowlers on one hand (Peter Connell and the Waringstown Pro?) The comparison with the attacks we came across 10/15 years ago is amazing. Paul and Charlie McCrum, Mark Patterson, Waseem Haider, Rudi Bryson, Pulashti Gunaratne, Simon Redpath, Alan Donnelly...I could go on. There seems to be a real shortage of real pace bowlers at the moment which is a pity as it is one of the most exciting sights in cricket.

taito . heard that you get the points for tonights 20 over game at home to muckamore as they didnt want to travel ?ps do u think STRANGFORD ROAD will be playable sat?

big davy ,they go missing in action every week when they have bat in ther hand . will pass on the info as think they looking stay 2/3 hours. ps aftr ballyholland winning at 29/1 betfair ill try spend some of it or as EDITOR says waste it, all eway shakey scaffold 2pm , sualice 4pm goodwood + two eway in galway hurdle at big prices silverhand 25/1 & sarteano 70/1

Jeff:
The Chim on a sat nite has something for everyone, some of your guys might go missing in action!!!

Dundrum have had too abandone the chance too hold their first ever ICC under 17 game involving Netherlands V Guernsey on sat aug 1st after torrential rain caused flooding in east down

While studying the Sunday Life scorecards I noticed one Premier League club fielded a team with only 3 "local" players on saturday. By local I mean players the club has developed from under age level and came through their academy system.

In my eyes this is sad for local cricket and could indeed be the death knell for some clubs when these blow ins disappear and any kids with potential have disappeared or given up.

The real big clubs like Warinsgtown and North Down will always recruit the pure quality from other clubs (i.e Ivan Anderson Armagh to Waringstown) and I have no problem with that and infact would encourage it if a player at my club had potential to play for Ireland but its the imposters who are trying to be big time worry me.....

editor , keep the faith + think some1 from ciyms won over 350£ so at least some of us still believe.big davy hope you sort out nice boozer for the game at mallusk as its our turn take bus have day out + bet you lot umpires want that game as between us it could be over early as we fancy 11 am start ?

Jeff:
your horses usually last as long as a Cliftonville innings at Dundrum!!!

hope some backed my galway plate tip ballyholland won 20 /1 ?

Fast Bowling:

Anthony Martin ( Carrickfergus ) can stick it down at a very decent speed.

Robin, you must be having a rough old day. It would have been a farce trying to play on that wicket – I saw it under water; getting the covers off for a few hours on Sat morning would have made little difference. Stephen asked my opinion at the time and I thought saving everyone from travelling and wasting a day was the right thing to do. Any thoughts of skulduggery are imagined. I share the frustration at not playing on such a nice day but your comments are misguided and a little discourteous.

you should try standing in the slips or at catching gully!! i have worn a few bruises stopping the ball in gully when they fly off the bat after yeatesy has found the edge! at least the keeper has a nice pair of gloves he can use to soften the blow a little when the batsman nicks one!!!

Yes Tommy the more I think about it the more you could be right although I haven't faced Andy on a hard wicket yet so hard to judge for me. Yeates definately has potential to be a great bowler as anyone with his pace will have an advantage. Have to say though I wish there were more out and out quick bowlers around as I love facing them (never hit many runs mind you). The quickest I faced was when I opened for Downpatrick against Waringstown on a few occasions. Gunaratne, who I believe has played for Sri Lanka since, was bowling at mid to high 80's I'm sure. The ball was near black in colour and the fizz of the ball going by my ear and the force of it hitting the bat was something else. Moreover, I didnt wear a thigh guard and I was hit twice that day! It was an enjoyable experience.

It is all getting a bit fiesty on here and for once i am not involved in it.

Regards fast bowlers i am not sure you can include the likes of bassett, yeates etc as being quick. Yes they may be some of the quickest about in the NCU lower leagues at the minute but in comparison with the quickest in the north west or Leinster they are milirary medium.

Long gone are the days when i was first playing senior cricket, mark patterson, eagy at his quickest just to name a couple, Those guys were much much sharper than andy bassett will ever be, fair play to the season he is having at dundrum this year the amount of wickets he has taken are very impressive.

Good medium pace bowlers yes, good fast bowlers no.( I wonder if andy will bend his back a bit more on his return to strangford road on satuday.

Big local derby on saturday, the usual added spice no doubt. Actually who am i trying to kid we probably get on better with the dundrum boys than we do with any other team in the league.