41. Wash your cricket clothes after every game and don’t leave wet towels in with your gear unless you want to be called Stinky.

40. Have any holes that form in batting nets immediately repaired. A stitch in time ...

39. Only wear your team colours. Try and have team hats and have everyone wear the hat for the first fielding session of each day if possible.

38. Enjoy your cricket and reflect often on your enjoyment of your cricket. It is a fun, unique and great game; be proud that you can play.

37. Review, reflect, plan and improve. At the end of the day’s play, and after practicing, update your cricket journal. Review the basics and record any that you neglected or need to work on and how you plan to improve your game at practice. Review your journal before you play next and concentrate on not making the same mistakes as previously.

36. Mark boundary lines with flags or some other visible marker if possible. If a fielder trips over a marker running forward after taking and claiming a catch then his captain should probably call the batsman back.

35. For the record, in real cricket you don’t have to call “O.C.” (Over Coming) or “creaseleave” when you leave your crease but not for the purpose of running.

34. Play real back-yard cricket. Reward good batting technique (that is to say, reward straight drives but punish hitting the ball in the air) and play with a ball that lets you bowl bouncers (preferably on a shortened pitch with a ball that swings outrageously (eg indoor cricket balls or tennis balls with electrical tape on one side).

33. In loose hanging nets don’t bend over to pick up a ball if it is near the net and there is a chance the adjacent batsmen could hit the ball into you through the net. Pick your moment and use the end of your bat to roll the ball back towards you in a safe position to pick up or put the toe of your bat against the net to keep it and any balls hit at a safe distance from you.

32. Don’t forget to bring sun-block and your lunch and afternoon tea.