GRAPPA'S CORNER
  
- GOES TO AMON BUCHANAN FOR HIS 48 KFC NUGGETS FROM THE WESTGATE BRIDGE TO KARDINIA PARK, SUPERHUMAN EFFORT.
- DON'T COUNT HIS BROTHER OUT, ITS LEGEND THAT LIAM DRANK 3 GREEN ALES WHILE ON THE WESTGATE BRIDGE! THIS HAS BEEN ATTEMPED TO BE BROKEN SEVERAL TIME BUT ALL HAVE FAILED.
- ON A DOWLING SHIELD TRIP MITCHELL HERBISON ONCE ATE 2 FOOT LONGS FROM ALTONA TO THE WERRIBEE TURN OFF (APPROX 2 KM'S WHILE TRAVELLING @ 100 KPH).
- TIM SMITH FOR HIS ANTICS WITH THE MEGA PHONE, ONE FOR THE AMOUNT OF TIME HE SAID SOMETHING STUPID TO SOMEONE WHEN PULLED UP AT TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND ALMOST GETTING BASHED AND TWO FOR BREAKING THE MEGA PHONE AT A PARTY.
- MARK FREIJAH'S EFFORTS SINGING SONGS ON THE BUS THAT RANGED FROM EMINEM TO WELL KNOWN SPORTING CHANTS.
- AHH JUSTIN MILLER- WHEN DID WE NOT GO AWAY ON A SATURDAY SUNDAY GAME TO DANDENONG OR FRANKSTON AND HE NOT MAKE IT HOME AS HE WOULD PICK UP A BIRD AND STAY AT HER PLACE, KUDOS TO YOU!
- LAST BUT NOT LEAST GOES TO THAT LITTLE SCOTTSMAN DOM RIGBY FOR BEING KICKED OUT OF 'KITTENS' NIGHTCLUB AND 21ST CENTURY NIGHT CLUB FOR NOT HAVING VALID AUSTALIAN ID EVEN THOUGH HE WAS OVER 30 AND HAD GREY HAIR HE STILL WASNT ALLOWED IN
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2. Caught Behind (auto wikky): You can have a keeper but a stumping and thick edge is out. NOTE: A stumping is out only when you knock all 3 stumps out of the ground or bin over depending on what you use as wickets.
3. One Hand, One Bounce: This popular innovation (When a fielder can dismiss a batsman by catching the ball in one hand on the first bounce) is essential to the very fabric of the sport. Importantly, it means a game can be organised with a minimum of players. Note that this rule comes in handy when the fielder must be holding a refreshment in there hand. No participant can play backyard cricket without a refreshment in hand whilst batting, fielding & bowling.
4.LBW: A rule often misunderstood. A batsmen that is struck in any part of body can be dismissed with more than 2 fielders appealling. No arguments, simply walk and concede defeat.
5. Six And Out: Why you should be out baffles me. A big hit that doesn't hit anything on the full is deemed a perfect shot, bowlers simply have to focus on getting batsmen out without bowling pies.
6. Standard Over: A bowlers duty is to bowl until batsmen is out. No change unless challenged by 2 or more fielders.
7. A player can be given out if the ball is caught one handed off an object: Such objects include the house, fence, tree, dog, player, car. This means that inattentive fielders can serve a purpose at short mid wicket.
8. More than 3 misses from the batsmen is out.
9. Fielding: When a ball is hit it is the last fielder to raise his arm that is to go and fetch the ball. The batsmen is safe from this rule.
10. Static objects can be placed around the field and nominated as fielders: Every game of backyard cricket must have a nominated fielder named "Boony". No match will start until this rule is addressed.
11. Balls: Standard tennis ball wrapped in duck tape is the preferred choice of pill but to the owner of house's choice of any hard ball.
12. No running between Wickets. It's not a game of fitness, it is a game of skill.
13. The Bat: Anything can be deemed usable for a bat. Sawn off SS, Plastic Pipe, Fence Plank or even a long neck stubby.
14. Arguments: Every game of backyard cricket is always going to have it's arguments, there is always the person refusing to walk after being hit on the shoulder and deemed plump LBW. To solve a situation like that is simply refuse to bowl another delivery to the batsmen until walks.
Any other arguments are to be dealt with a majority raise of the arm.
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