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| Filename: | ReadSoft/Images/Cricket/Scoreread |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 067A bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
"Coarsesht" is a drawfile of a cricket score card. It is intended for use by the scratch sides got up by the staff of companies, offices and schools to play evening games against similar teams. Such teams often have no scorebook, having lost it or not being able to afford to buy one. They are often reduced to looking for empty pages in ancient score books which are falling apart, or keeping score on photocopied pages of score books or blank sheets of paper. These games usually last for 20 overs and it is frequently the case that batsmen are forced to retire when passing 25 or 30 runs and that every team member apart from the wicketkeeper has to bowl two overs. Coventional scoresheets do not allow for this number of bowlers and allow far too much dpace for the runs of individual batsmen. Given the occasional nature of such bowlers and their lack of practice even if they have some ability, the number of wides and no balls delivered in an over is often too many to fit into the space provided on commercially printed scoresheets or score books. This design tries to allow for the above special features of coarse cricket. It can be edited to include the name of the team using it and an ironic motto or logo if the team has one. The logo included is one which is meant to be in keeping with the low sun which often causes problems in these evening games. The staff team for which I play has the motto "To lose is to taste eternity", printed in a suitably medieval font and with the logo being a picture of the Grim Reaper. It all adds to the fun of coarse cricket! Jeff Davies 39 Overbury Close Northfield Birmingham B31 2HD
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It all adds t| 00000620 6f 20 74 68 65 20 66 75 6e 20 6f 66 20 63 6f 61 |o the fun of coa| 00000630 72 73 65 20 63 72 69 63 6b 65 74 21 0a 0a 0a 4a |rse cricket!...J| 00000640 65 66 66 20 44 61 76 69 65 73 0a 33 39 20 4f 76 |eff Davies.39 Ov| 00000650 65 72 62 75 72 79 20 43 6c 6f 73 65 0a 4e 6f 72 |erbury Close.Nor| 00000660 74 68 66 69 65 6c 64 0a 42 69 72 6d 69 6e 67 68 |thfield.Birmingh| 00000670 61 6d 0a 42 33 31 20 32 48 44 |am.B31 2HD| 0000067a
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