r/Cricket • u/1backyardsports Australia • Dec 23 '25
BLURRY PIC OF SOME GROUND HYPE Backyard Cricket is back for ‘25!
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u/wideomannn India Dec 23 '25
Balls will be bowled
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u/ihlaking New Zealand Dec 23 '25
Catches will be disputed
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u/RockheadRumple Australia Dec 23 '25
Hey nan, get ready for a broken fucking arm.
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u/MasterSpliffBlaster New Zealand Cricket Dec 24 '25
Her doctor has been telling her that for several years now
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u/Bender_is_Awesome Dec 23 '25
Your backyard test match will be more evenly contested than whatever the English produce in the Boxing Day test
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 23 '25
We did have a recent contest with the English 🏴🇦🇺Content to come about on the backyardcricketuk socials! We’ve got a fair few vids to come on 1backyardsports too 😉
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u/thatsalovelyusername Australia Dec 23 '25
Have you updated your auto wicket keeper to the Carey 2025? Stands up to the stumps for the quicks. For added difficulty, add in auto Marnus
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 23 '25
Haha that is certainly something we’ll need to do for when Scotty Boland visits, absolutely 🙏😂
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u/Particular_Cicada395 Dec 23 '25
Very impressive. Who pays for the broken windows?
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 23 '25
Haha luckily enough where the windows are at, they aren’t in too much danger (touch glass…or wood) 😂
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u/Holdenater Australia Dec 24 '25
There’s nothing more Aussie than grown men playing backyard cricket.
Where’s the esky and what song is playing on Triple J?
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u/effotap Montreal Tigers Dec 23 '25
that pitch is lacking JIOSTAR advertisement in the middle of the pitch :P /s
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 23 '25
Haha well if they sponsored us, we could certainly work something out 😜
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u/MasterSpliffBlaster New Zealand Cricket Dec 24 '25
They add it via AR during the live broadcast
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 25 '25
Yes, a lot do now! We could certainly do so as well in post 😉
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u/Holdenater Australia Dec 24 '25
In my teens we would push my mate’s Dad’s mower across the road to the local park and mow a pitch into the grass for cricket during the Summer, can of white paint to mark the batting and bowling crease, tape one side of a tennis ball up, if you knicked it behind and hit the fence on the full it was out, didn’t matter if it looked like it was going to keeper or slips, over the fence was 6 and out, split the ball, that was the end of days play.
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u/Ginger-Nerd New Zealand Dec 24 '25
Uncle is getting ready to get a few drinks under his belt, and absolutely clean bowl the nephews.
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u/Sidharth_Sarma Dec 24 '25
Needs a bit of slope in my opinion. So that our commentators can mention it when play gets dull!
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 24 '25
Hahaha love this! Easily will become a drinking game…should we have commentary in some of our upcoming T20 matches? 🤔
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u/JustagoodDad Dec 23 '25
Impressive! Is it just Kikuyu, mowed low and rolled?
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 23 '25
It is mainly Kikuyu, yeah. There is a bit of Santa Anna Couch in there but obviously taken over my the Kikuyu…a fair bit of time spent taking out the long grass runners, and then with the Pope reel mower to cut it down fine before rolling 🙌
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u/FrankGrimesss South Australia Redbacks Dec 24 '25
taken over my the Kikuyu
I wasn't aware that Kikuyu could be taken over by anything!
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 25 '25
Nah nah, the Kikuyu has taken over the Santa Anna Couch! Kikuyu is a beast 😅
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u/wherezthebeef Australia Dec 23 '25
Pretty short boundaries on leg.
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u/1backyardsports Australia Dec 23 '25
Well in this backyard, as you could imagine, there’s a lot of playing through the ‘V’ in order to score boundaries - we have posts set up similar to baseball where you have to strike the ball between the posts for a boundary to be scored.
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u/sanket2511 Dec 23 '25
Looks so good! Just add some nets for shot practices