🏏 Our gully cricket rule book is longer than the real one

In our lane the rules of cricket are not the rules of cricket. One tip and one hand is out, the wall behind the bowler counts as four if the ball hits the green paint, and if the ball goes into Mr Hussain's compound the batsman has to get it back himself. Last Sunday we spent twenty minutes arguing over whether a ball that hit a parked scooter and came back was a catch. The final ruling was that it counted, but only because the scooter belonged to the bowler's brother. We have written some of these on the back of a notebook because new kids keep joining and nobody agrees on what was decided last month. The notebook is now eleven points long and has a coffee ring on it. My favourite rule is that the last over of the day is worth double. Every lane seems to have its own set. What is the strangest rule where you play? Ours has a scooter clause and I would like to know if that is normal.

We played with a taped tennis ball, and a hit over the school wall was out and you had to fetch it too. Nobody ever won that argument. The worst one was when the ball landed on a tea stall and the owner wanted the bowler to pay for the spilled glasses. Your notebook idea is the real fix. Does the coffee ring count as an official signature?

The scooter clause made me laugh. Ours is a wall clause, where the compound wall behind Rehan's house counts as six only if the ball clears the water tank. Nobody wrote it down, so every Sunday somebody remembers it differently. You should keep the notebook. When we finally put ours on a chart paper, the arguments dropped by half. Also, double runs in the last over sounds fair to me.