[ñàéäèíã]

You Poms will just be waking to the awful news.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,1...560371,00.html

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[jobsfancy]

pretty much what the realists amongst us thought, you aussies only let us win every so often to give us a false sense of superiority !

[yK2VgoEI]

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[wantedLOX]

Its hardly surprising we have a crap team when only one person I know is even interested in it. I know more people who do MA than I do players or fans of 'a good day at the park spoiled by chasing a ball about'....

[Sakkola]

My smilies didn't work What's going on??

[TZids16I]

Is cricket that really confusing and boring version of baseball?


Newbie those are lower case ds love. They've got to be bigguns.

[LypeReexy]

As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
And that is called an inning.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!


or to explain it another way,
10 minutes of excitement packed into 3 rainy days.

The only part of Cricket I would ever want to experience is described as
"Bowling a maiden over".
In real life I have never been able to accomplish that.

[boffincash]

It's a quite simple game really.
The bowler attempts to strike the bails, which is part of wicket on stumps, unless of course, it goes out of the popping crease, which the wicket-keeper helps to tend.
This is in conjunction with the striker, unless he's a non-striker. Sometimes the ball is dead, and then redelivered. This continues until the over, and there are outs, and non outs, and run outs.Sometimes when the ball is hit, you simply don't feel like running, so you don't.
In addition to being caught, bowled or stumped, you can:
Handle some balls,
Hit the ball twice,
Or simply time yourself out.
Extras include:
no balls, wides, byes, and leg byes.
Bye-Byes do not exist in this game.

Flippers, Googlies, top-spinners and leg cutters.

~Got that all?


Yup....Just like American Baseball.
(Only not nearly as much drugs.)

[standaman]

Is cricket that really confusing and boring version of baseball?

Wait, there's a simple and exciting version of baseball? When did this happen?

[Zdmlscid]

As explained to a foreigner....

That didn't make a lick of sense. I'm too hung over to try and wrap my head around this game.

[beth]

Wait, there's a simple and exciting version of baseball?

Beer Alex. Lot's of beer. And as Kenzan suggested, maybe some drugs will help.

[peveballery]

Thats the only reason us Aussies love cricket. Its days and days of sitting outside getting drunk, trying to out-cheer the barmy army. As for the actual game, I havent the foggiest how it all works, I just cheer when everyone else does.

Plus everyone wants to see the brittish lose and go home sunburnt to hell

[mygalinasoo]

All I know about cricket is that the bats are supposed to be good for getting rid of zombies.

[VanDerSmok]

Newbie those are lower case ds love. They've got to be bigguns. It was really weird - I typed them upper case. then when it came out like that, i went to advance post and put them in that way by clicking on the grinning smiley icon. and when i saved the post it went back to being like that. my housemate was standing right here and saw it. truly odd.

Thats the only reason us Aussies love cricket. Its days and days of sitting outside getting drunk, trying to out-cheer the barmy army. As for the actual game, I havent the foggiest how it all works, I just cheer when everyone else does. *sigh* I love my cricket.

[hacyOrgachbic]

All I know about cricket is that the bats are supposed to be good for getting rid of zombies.

indeed they are! Also good for killing cockroaches.

[KernJetenue]

Alison - I thought you saw the evidence last night that all you need for that is my cat

[Timoxari]

hahaha! Thats right. Your cat loves cockroaches. Im no sure if he'd do as well with the zombies....

[SarkisPioute]

Hey, he is also stealth ninja cat. this morning he was stealth ninjering underneath the brocolli in the veggie patch.

[HartOvara]

Hahahahaa!

*Hey, I cant keep capitals either...

[Metalhead]

its because it was abroad so being played at stupid oclock
so i couldnt watch it so we lost
sorry guys
well do betterer next time no doubt

also, you are talking about a nation that prides itself on victories from the sixties, and tim henman
like this minor setback will bother us theres always last year