Indoor nets

So our indoor nets this season are on friday nights. This seems a slightly strange choice by the club, I mean friday nights? no one ever has any plans on a friday do they? The last two years they were sunday afternoons 5-6 this apparently caused problems with people liking to sit at home watching the latest SUPER SUNDAY offerings from Sky rather then traipse to a musky school hall to dust off their techniques.

Anyway friday nights they are. Last night was the second one the previous week was packed to the rafters of eager young kids and the slightly clique 1st teamers strutting their stuff. It was pretty unproductive for me, all my eager reading of Philpotts "art of wrist spin" and thinking about "around the loop" with my leg spin quickly seemed to go out the window into a stream of leg side full toss buffet balls. A short spell at the end of the nets with the bat was not very productive either the bowlers seemed uninterested by this point and were more into chatting to their mates about their winter exploits. All I gained from this was a few full tosses and the realization that I really need a new bat as my toe guard peeled away again.

The second edition was more fruitful, I really concentrated on my bowling thinking about the pace and action, after a shaky start an abortive attempt at a flipper and continuation for a while of the leg side dross, I was ripping some telling leggies towards the young kid batting last which did elicit some satisfied moans of approval by the gathered masses. Paid my £3 and went to the clubhouse for a drink and felt quite happy with my work. Roll on next week and roll on the 1st May!!