former pro baseballer in CPL draft

timmyj51 · 02-03-2016, 01:51 PM · 1 person reading this discussion

#11
AND then there is REAL Football  :-[

Do you know how England won the FOOTBALL World Cup ?

By playing cricket during breaks between games.

In this photo, (from left) Bobby Charlton, Terry Paine, Nobby Stiles, the 21-year-old Alan Ball (batting),

Gerry Byrne and Peter Bonetti hone their ball-watching skills.  8)

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#12
Race-car driver Graham Hill works on his reflexes at slip in a charity game also featuring Prince Charles (batting)

and fellow driver and Olympic bobsledder Robin Widdows (keeping).

The fielding clearly helped Hill with his focus and concentration:

he went on to win the Formula One World Championship that year, 1968.  8)

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#13
Ernie Els bats in a beach cricket game also starring other golfers

(from left) Craig Parry, Mark McCumber and Nick Price (then ranked No. 1)

during the Johnnie Walker World Championship in Jamaica.

Two days later Els, then 25, won the tournament -  8)

- capping a phenomenal 12 months 1994 in which he raked in US$2.88 million 

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#14
Baseballers don't play wid tennis ball. :o


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#15
A 20-year-old Andy Roddick superstar Tennis ball player

gets a different sort of forehand workout with a Cricket bat

while facing Shane Warne in the nets at the SCG, 2003.


Note : Grip on bat and Grip on racquet !

Note : Elbow position on both Shots  8)

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#17
Trevor Chappell like to play billiards on cricket ground  ::LOL:: ::LOL::

#18
This is an acceptable way to handle your Balls . Tongue




#19
There is no bat and ball games more tactical than Cricket  Wink

or racquet and ball .

#20
Yuh, muhn, need extriordnary smarts, deep planning, much
calcilation, ta smak bull into de stands  8) 8)

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