Hi,

I use this site rather than the British one 'cos it's more informal and more friendly. I've met lots of people from the U.S. and Canada both in England and over there on holiday (vacation).

It's often said that we are separated by a common language but we manage to communicate - I've never met anyone from over your side who understands that cricket is a game which can be played over 5 days and still end in a draw. Is there anyone out there who understands it.

The following is a brief - and believe me - an accurate description of the game:

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 both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game.

There - I bet that makes it clear to everyone - any comments?

regards,

Melvyn :)

Melvyn wrote on Jun 15^th, 2008 at 6:01pm:

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.

I think there are mens over here who enjoy this game :)

KJ wrote on Jun 15^th, 2008 at 6:24pm:

Melvyn wrote on Jun 15th, 2008 at 6:01pm: 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. I think there are mens over here who enjoy this game :)

[smiley=crackup.gif], fantastic. andrew.

Who gives a fuck?.....Really!  ;)

Hi,

I said I use this site because it is so friendly - they say the exception proves the rule' --  Jonny you really are exceptional!!

regads,

Melvyn

You're right about Jonny of course. He's
just not being cricket.  ::) 8-)

Charlie

Melvyn wrote on Jun 15^th, 2008 at 6:42pm:

Hi, I said I use this site because it is so friendly - they say the exception proves the rule' --  Jonny you really are exceptional!! regads, Melvyn

My apologies to you Melvyn, I was out of line! :(

[smiley=crackup.gif], thanks. jonny, my Leige, [smiley=hug.gif]. andrew.

Well, okay...

I've made an (admittedly) half-hearted effort to understand the rules of cricket, and I still find the game completely impenetrable.

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"While the batsmen are attempting a run, the fielders may dismiss either batsman by using the ball to knock the bails off the set of stumps to which the batsman is closest before he has grounded himself or his bat in the crease."

Hmm.

"If a fielder knocks the bails off the stumps with the ball while no part of the batsman is grounded behind the popping crease, the batsman nearer the broken wicket is run out. The batsman may ground the bat, provided he or she is holding it."

Very enlightening.

This, I think, is the most telling:

"The game is played in accordance with 42 laws, which have been developed by the Marylebone Cricket Club in discussion with the main cricketing nations. Teams may agree before a game to introduce other rules or alter some of the existing rules."

Are you sure cricket isn't some elaborate and long-running practical joke on the rest of us?

Just askin'.   ;)

Best,

George

Yep I understand it: about as much as I understand two soccer teams playing a whole game to achieve a nil all draw, & everyone goes home happy. ::)

Give me Aussie rules football anytime; Brian probably wont agree here being a Queenslander I believe he follows that game where blokes on both teams stick thier heads between the posterior of the other team mates & try to push them over while fighting for the ball. :D

Cheers
Barry

Barry_T_Coles wrote on Jun 15^th, 2008 at 9:19pm:

Give me Aussie rules football anytime; Brian probably wont agree here being a Queenslander...

Still beats the cross-country ballet that you follow.  Or the full-combat chess of the US.

There's nothing like an afternoon of televised live curling on a Sunday afternoon though

Charlie

Nope, dont't understand the rules, but all the kids played in in the summer, girls and boys- in the days when kids played outside.
I knew something about LBW and sixes or something like that ( used to play fox and hounds a lot to) and some ohter things I fogot.  

I remember the ball bloody hurts if it hits you and love the thump sound the bat makes.  I could thwack the ball a good distants. Oh yes and the ball leaves a big red stain in the groin area which for some reason the boys always rubbed the ball into?????????? what was that all about! :D

The only good thing about cricket is getting bladdered afterwards and then everyone trooping off for a curry! I miss those days! I don't think I ever watched a whole Over though -  ::)

Crickets are a great bait for bluegill fishing!

Thats about all I know :D

Jimmers

wrote on Jun 16^th, 2008 at 11:51am:

Crickets are a great bait for bluegill fishing!

With you on that one, jimmers.  Had everything organised for a great night, beer chilling in the creek, and do you reckon I could find any bait?  Not so much as a frog, moth or a leech!

Heard an unusual noise and it turned out to be a black snake downing a cricket and the fight was on because he wouldn't let it go.  Finally poured some beer down his throat, got the cricket, and was able to do some serious drinking fishing.

Coupla minutes later I feels this bump, bump, bump on my leg and it's the old black snake back, eh. He's got another cricket.

Melvyn wrote on Jun 15^th, 2008 at 6:01pm:

Hi, I use this site rather than the British one 'cos it's more informal and more friendly. I've met lots of people from the U.S. and Canada both in England and over there on holiday (vacation). It's often said that we are separated by a common language but we manage to communicate - I've never met anyone from over your side who understands that cricket is a game which can be played over 5 days and still end in a draw. Is there anyone out there who understands it. The following is a brief - and believe me - an accurate description of the game: 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 both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game. There - I bet that makes it clear to everyone - any comments? regards, Melvyn :)

That's a LOT of in and out action.  ;)
TomM

It's not the game that matters or who wins/looses it's the booze up after that really matters. ;)

Barry_T_Coles wrote on Jun 17^th, 2008 at 4:20am:

It's not the game that matters or who wins/looses it's the booze up after that really matters. ;)

Now you see my mate Barry is talking my kind of Cricket!! loves ya lots Barry!  :-*

I'm purely an out-doors sort of bloke so my favourite, naturally, will always be rodeo-sex.

It occasionally happens that I'm stuck inside due to cyclones, earthquakes, wars, hangovers and the like, and this is where cricket-sex becomes interesting because the rules are so simple -

a.)   It can only happen during the boring parts of the telecast and,

b.)   It must stop when something exciting happens during the match.

I'm sure this is why a certain English witch, whose anonymity is assured, prefers the five-day tests to the new one-day matches, but it's 'rodeo' for me every time.

no better than I understand Cicada.....

Scott

Barry_T_Coles wrote on Jun 17^th, 2008 at 4:20am:

It's not the game that matters or who wins/looses it's the booze up after that really matters. ;)

Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. That is the American way...
My preferred version is: Beer, BikinBabes, and Beaches. In any order.  :)
TomM

wrote on Jun 16^th, 2008 at 11:51am:

Crickets are a great bait for bluegill fishing! Thats about all I know :D Jimmers

But killing them is bad luck.  

Hi Brian,

you prefer Aussie rules - used to share a house with some Aussies in London - played the game with them - it seems like a misnomer because there don't appear to be any rules!! seems like everything is allowed!! But good fun and plenty of bruises and a bloody good piss up afterwards!!

regards,

Melvyn

Tom,

excuse a stupid question from an Englishman  why are hotdogs called hotdogs?

regards,

Melvyn

The popularity of the term hot dog is generally attributed to sports cartoonist T. A. "Tad" Dorgan, who caricatured German figures as dachshund dogs just after the turn of the 19th century. His talking sausage cartoons generally denigrated the cheap wieners sold at Coney Island, crassly suggesting they contained dogmeat. It was such bad publicity that in 1913, the Chamber of Commerce actually banned use of the term "hog dog" from signs on Coney Island. The term actually first appeared in print in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1900.

German Americans brought us weinerwurst, German for Vienna sausage, which eventually became shortened to wiener. Other German immigrants referred to smoked sausages as bundewurst, which is German for dog sausage. By the late 1920's, weinie roasts became the rage, with guests bringing their own hot dogs to roast over an open fire.

FYI: the only cricket is West Indies Cricket played in the West Indies. Once experienced it's never forgotten

Karma,

thanks for the info on hot dogs - I am now much wiser. I see your point about cricket in the W. I.  - my fathers father was born in Barbados and I have played cricket there - both on a green and on the beach - a wonderful experience - however the sound of ball on willow on an english green in an English summer is a tranquil experience like no other.

regards,

Melvyn