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I think that guy making those cricket balls worked
on my healey with that same large hammer......
 
I have no idea Doug, it's all confusing to me as well, veteran players and fans have always told me it's rather simple... :crazyeyes:
 
It is simple,you go out to the field to be in,then when your out you go back in to the pavilion. :crazyeyes: :devilgrin: :jester:

Of course,Steve's probably the one to explain it. :jester:

Stuart. :cheers:
 
amazing pics - particularly the number of pictures with children playing on railway tracks. Also interested in the Hindu Priests. (I guess there's Bubba's everywhere)
 
I've seen a couple of cricket matches. Very, umm, interesting. :crazyeyes:

I hate it when I watch a sporting event and have no earthly idea what they're doing . . . :cryin:
 
What super pictures!

Cricket isn't all that complicated, no more so than Baseball, at any rate. There's a pretty good description on Wikipedia.
 
From the official tea towel version of the rules:

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 that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

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 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 been 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.

What's so difficult to understand folks? :wall:
 
I wonder if cricket is actually simple, but the use of insider language makes it difficult for newbies to learn.

Once I was listening to a baseball call-in radio program. The listener asked if a batter could be walked intentionally if first base was occupied. This came from hearing the expression "There's nowhere to put him" used by broadcasters.

This made me wonder about other terms in other sports. Like "They have to go for it" on fourth down in football. Could this be misinterpreted?

The other day, race announcers were talking about the tires "falling off" after so many laps. We know they meant "lose grip", but to a newbie???
 
This whole thread just isn't cricket!!!
 
And one of my favorites:

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And this one:

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And of course, Andy Griffith's:

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OH, forgot about this one:

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