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Cricket
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:24 am
by JBR_Archive
tmidgett wrote:
is there some kind of definitive cricket reference book around?
Probably hundreds but none of them would be comprehensible. To understand I suggest drinking beer and playing a backyard version of the game. From there it will all follow.....
Cricket
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:47 pm
by andteater_Archive
maybe we can set up a pick up Cricket game for after Wiffle Ball?
andyk
JBR wrote:To understand I suggest drinking beer and playing a backyard version of the game. From there it will all follow.....
Cricket
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:55 pm
by eldupay_Archive
JBR wrote:tmidgett wrote:
is there some kind of definitive cricket reference book around?
Probably hundreds but none of them would be comprehensible. To understand I suggest drinking beer and playing a backyard version of the game. From there it will all follow.....
Try doing a search for Wisden it's kind of the cricket bible.
Use a tennis ball in backyard cricket it 's less painful.
Cricket
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:17 pm
by JBR_Archive
eldupay wrote:
Use a tennis ball in backyard cricket it 's less painful.
Wrapped in gaffa tape of course.... for swing.
Cricket
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:28 pm
by thenullset_Archive
Another first time post from Australia. Hello up there...
Cricket is a game which (much like botulism and the common cold) is a legacy of English colonialism. It is a game in which a 300-pound man with enough serum cholesterol to fry eggs can become a national sporting icon (sex symbol, even...for more on Sex and Cricket do a engine search on Sex AND Shane Warne). This game has the following appeal for spectators; an entire day off work drinking in the sun. And that's about it.
Cricket
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:29 am
by Bradley R Weissenberger_Archive
"[Cricket] has the following appeal for spectators; an entire day off work drinking in the sun. And that's about it."
It sounds like Australia has a counterpart to Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Wrigley Field's sole attraction, as far as I can gather, is to provide a forum for white twentysomething "consultants" (from the suburbs or North Side) to sit in the sun, drink beer and ultimately fail to get in one another's pants. -- all while speaking on cellular telephones.
Cricket
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:09 pm
by spoot_Archive
Shane Warne
Full Name: Shane Keith Warne
Batting Style: Right Hand Batsman
Special: Leg Break Googly
That's right - his special is "Leg Break Googly." I didn't make this up. It's his special. I'm not kidding. "Leg Break Googly."
http://www.cricmania.com/cricket/DB/sta ... yer/AUSP54
Cricket
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:00 am
by JBR_Archive
and what a googly it is too...