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Rob Lynch: Run out in my first game

My very first game of cricket, Cornwall Cricket Club, Auckland, NZ, where I’d sat on the boundary watching my four older brothers play for years just desperately wanting to play and now it was my turn. I walked out to bat so proudly with my brand new SS striker bat and faced up.

Bowler runs in, the ball comes at me, I connect for the first time ever and start to run for my life. I get to the other end, I want more, the fielder is just getting the ball so I run again, as fast as I can, I can see the ball coming in from the throw but I was going to get back to my crease, I dive as far as I could and then look up to the umpire to see his finger up. My heart sank, run out for 1 off 1 ball the first time I batted. The positive was it was the first and only time I had a strike rate of 100 during my career! Every cloud…

Rob Lynch, Chief Executive, The Professional Cricketers Association

Memory added on June 3, 2021

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