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VILLAGE cricketers have been left stumped after being told they cannot score a six from one end of their ground, because they say a neighbour has threatened legal action.

For more than 30 years, village players at Britwell Salome Cricket Club have been using willow to wallop the ball over the boundary at its ground for maximum runs.

But this season the club has had to introduce a rule that even if a batsman hits a six from one end, it will not count.

Instead the umpire will declare a dead ball.

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What a bitch.

Move out ... sell the ground to a tannery, BMX club or Victa display centre.

lardbucket wrote:Move out ... sell the ground to a tannery, BMX club or Victa display centre.

Now that's an idea. The club can even have a dicks being struck by balls contest.

tricycle wrote:VILLAGE cricketers have been left stumped after being told they cannot score a six from one end of their ground, because they say a neighbour has threatened legal action.

For more than 30 years, village players at Britwell Salome Cricket Club have been using willow to wallop the ball over the boundary at its ground for maximum runs.

But this season the club has had to introduce a rule that even if a batsman hits a six from one end, it will not count.

Instead the umpire will declare a dead ball.

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We've (my club, that is) been playing Britwell Salome for some 15 years now.
Cute little place on the edge of the Chiltern Hills overlooking some beautiful countryside,
where the now frequently seen red kites swarm in low over the field ( a breeding pair was
released about 5 miles from Britwell some 20 years ago, and now the kites are everywhere - top of the food chain!)

Anyway - the "neighbour" in question only moved in to her house bordering the boundary some 4 or 5 years ago -
and the bad feeling betwixt her and the Club has grown ever since, despite the club putting up high netting to stop
the sixes (it's a small ground) raining in on her garden.

In our game against them last season, we "lost" 4 balls into her garden (worth about £40) - never to be seen again.
Apparently she's a miserable qunt and as Nigel Joiner says in the attachment, why buy a house that borders
a cricket ground when you know that the inevitable sixes will occasionally drop into your garden.

Seems there's quite a lot of this sh*t now taking place around the country where house owners are threatening
to sue cricket grounds - in fact a couple of clubs have been shut down IIRC . . in the Oxfordshire area.

The wankstain residents around the county ground eventually agreed to floodlights. I'm not sure what they thought floodlights were, but as soon as they were up, they started complaining. These are the sort of little Britainers whom I hate with a passion.

Used to live next to the DY Patil stadium not too long ago. Yeah floodlights can be a bit bright, but it's not going to harm anyone's sleep. Traffic's a bit of an issue if, like near the DYP stadium, there's not much parking space.

This woman seems like a right qunt.

tricycle wrote:VILLAGE cricketers have been left stumped after being told they cannot score a six from one end of their ground, because they say a neighbour has threatened legal action.

For more than 30 years, village players at Britwell Salome Cricket Club have been using willow to wallop the ball over the boundary at its ground for maximum runs.

But this season the club has had to introduce a rule that even if a batsman hits a six from one end, it will not count.

Instead the umpire will declare a dead ball.

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I think we need her head on a platter.

display it on a stake outside the ground as a lesson to anyone else who tries this sort of bitchery

There's no cure for being a qunt.

lots of folk like to have the green of a golf course to look out on...when they move in they start complaining about errant drives and have forced some clubs to redesign holes that had existed for decades

her hole needs to be redesigned

horace wrote:lots of folk like to have the green of a golf course to look out on...when they move in they start complaining about errant drives and have forced some clubs to redesign holes that had existed for decades

There's a whole course that's being redesigned in the Algarve because the owners of villas adjoining the course have all complained of said errant drives, chips and shanks.
The villas, incidentally, were built some 20 years after the course began playing!

In Quinta do Lago? One of the best, no?

tricycle wrote:In Quinta do Lago? One of the best, no?

Yep - the Quinta North Course (not the best) but a much used course before being "realligned".
The other three in the area have stood firm -
Pinheiros Altos, San Lorenzo and Quinta South all okay.
Played them all last week - The San Lorenzo has to be the best along that coastline
(apart from the Vale do Lobo Ocean Golf Course) - spectacular.

Cheers, Merls. 

Would love to play there, or Madiera Islands. Way too expensive for me, at least now. Maybe if a district writes off all their property in my name....

Been going there for hols and golf for the past 20 years.
Great place - best tee-off at 7 am or at 5 pm - otherwise you swelter!

One of the hazards (a free drop) at Pinehro Altos are the black hairy caterpillars!  If your ball lands under the trees that line the fairways which these critters inhabit in the Spring, and should one (or worse still, more than one) of them drop on you, you end up with a nasty rash  that takes weeks to disappear along with a swollen throat and a slight fever - hence the free drop well away from the tree!

The Lobo Ocean Course has a hole where you hit over the cliffs from the tee- too long or too short, and the ball ends up on the beach 80 feet below!

One drawback - they insist on players using buggies - necessary when you're following a foursome averaging a 26 h'cap!

Merlin wrote:

tricycle wrote:In Quinta do Lago? One of the best, no?

Yep - the Quinta  North Course (not the best) but a much used course before being "realligned".
The other three in the area have stood firm  -
Pinheiros Altos, San Lorenzo and Quinta South all okay.
Played them all last week - The San Lorenzo has to be the best along that coastline
(apart from the Vale do Lobo Ocean Golf Course) - spectacular.

Is it as nice as Provence?

lardbucket wrote:

Merlin wrote:

tricycle wrote:In Quinta do Lago? One of the best, no?

Yep - the Quinta  North Course (not the best) but a much used course before being "realligned".
The other three in the area have stood firm  -
Pinheiros Altos, San Lorenzo and Quinta South all okay.
Played them all last week - The San Lorenzo has to be the best along that coastline
(apart from the Vale do Lobo Ocean Golf Course) - spectacular.

Is it as nice as Provence?

Never played golf in Provence.
But I have played in 2 cricket tours down there . . .
Fabulous fun and excellent food . . . the cricket was an aside!

Merlin wrote:

horace wrote:lots of folk like to have the green of a golf course to look out on...when they move in they start complaining about errant drives and have forced some clubs to redesign holes that had existed for decades

There's a whole course that's being redesigned in the Algarve because the owners of villas adjoining the course have all complained of said errant drives, chips and shanks.
The villas, incidentally, were built some 20 years after the course began playing!

...absolute desecration...I rank nimbies with cyclopaths as modern day developed world pests..

merls...you should trot out here sometime ...we still have the odd decent course...time it with an ashes series

horace wrote:

merls...you should trot out here sometime ...we still have the odd decent course...time it with an ashes series

Yes, I've heard from friends who live over yonder that Aus has several challenging (though beautiful) courses -
perhaps a trip Down Under during the next Ashes tour (providing of course that Cook will have, by then,
been relieved of the captaincy).
Around Brisbane and Adelaide come to mind.

Merlin wrote:

lardbucket wrote:

Merlin wrote:

tricycle wrote:In Quinta do Lago? One of the best, no?

Yep - the Quinta  North Course (not the best) but a much used course before being "realligned".
The other three in the area have stood firm  -
Pinheiros Altos, San Lorenzo and Quinta South all okay.
Played them all last week - The San Lorenzo has to be the best along that coastline
(apart from the Vale do Lobo Ocean Golf Course) - spectacular.

Is it as nice as Provence?

Never played golf in Provence.
But I have played in 2 cricket tours down there . . .

I remember.

Stoopid old codgers.

 

Brass Monkey wrote:Stoopid old codgers.

Stoopid - yes.
Old - perhaps.
Codgers . . . noooooooooooo!!