I know how you lot love cricket............

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by spidge, Jan 6, 2010.

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  1. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Yes. You don't usually have to run too far.

    Wonderful! Thanks for that. I could be the perfect choice for that job.
    I sport a few scars and lacerations from my hockey days but I understand that cricket bats are employed in a more gentile manner than hockey sticks. Much too peaceful for most Canadians.
     
  2. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Cannuck -
    Ice hockey is a mis-nomer- it should be boxing on Ice- the way they allow tempers to flare up- with hockey sticks cleaving skulls - shheesh- not cricket at all old chap !
    Cheers
     
  3. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    It was worse before they invented the goalie mask!

    sawchuckscarface1.jpg
     
  4. Oldman

    Oldman Very Senior Member

    Spidge
    I refer to the rather superb Government issue boots for the use of!
    I think by the time the game was played it could have had great bearing on the result.
     
  5. Oldman

    Oldman Very Senior Member

    Vitesse
    I agree they are the best tonic for dull days, anyone for a glass of corn plaster gin!
     
  6. Oggie2620

    Oggie2620 Senior Member

    I just love this thread. I am one of those females who actually enjoy and mostly understand cricket... At least cricketers arent paid more than they are worth like footballers over here...
     
  7. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Spidge
    I refer to the rather superb Government issue boots for the use of!
    I think by the time the game was played it could have had great bearing on the result.

    Most certainly! The surface was I believe course hard rock which provided the "quickie" with a distinct advantage.
     
  8. Vitesse

    Vitesse Senior Member

    I just love this thread. I am one of those females who actually enjoy and mostly understand cricket... At least cricketers arent paid more than they are worth like footballers over here...
    Heh. Although both my parents were cricket fans, it was probably my mother's influence that enthused me about the game. She spent many of her teenage Sunday afternoons in the late 30s doing cricket teas in Cumberland and did her first teaching practice in Portsmouth from 1944 onwards, where she saw lots of good cricket at the United Services ground - forces teams at first and then Hampshire, the county she then supported throughout her life. (Although she did also rather fancy Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie!)
     
  9. Oldman

    Oldman Very Senior Member

    Spidge
    Seconds out round 2 or test 2 tomorrow let battle commence
     
  10. bofors

    bofors Senior Member

    :blush:Well what a good start we have had, not

    Maybe they should do less of this :GroupHug:
    and do more of this
    :angry2: to get motiviated
    Meanwhile I think I'll go and play some of my son's FPS games to get my frustration out.
    I think my second son's under 14 team could play better

    regards

    Robert
     
  11. 17thDYRCH

    17thDYRCH Senior Member

    We Canadians are not that familiar with the sport of cricket. We are more into the game of hockey which is played on a frozen ice surface, usually outdoors, in -40C temperatures.

    A question has come up - which one could interpret as a bit of a sticky wicket - as to how cheerleaders are now permitted to perform rather vigorous dancing routines during matches in India while supporting their local team.
    Might there be some sort of explanation from the more erudite forum members knowledgeable of the sport of cricket?
     
  12. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    We Canadians are not that familiar with the sport of cricket. We are more into the game of hockey which is played on a frozen ice surface, usually outdoors, in -40C temperatures.

    A question has come up - which one could interpret as a bit of a sticky wicket - as to how cheerleaders are now permitted to perform rather vigorous dancing routines during matches in India while supporting their local team.
    Might there be some sort of explanation from the more erudite forum members knowledgeable of the sport of cricket?

    I will leave my explanation until it is adopted at "Lords":p
     
  13. Pieter F

    Pieter F Very Senior Member

    Well, what a display by England! And it was supposed to be a batsmen's wicket!
     
  14. craigevelyn

    craigevelyn Member

    Australia 3 for 2 .
    Who played football for scotland and cricket for england .
    Answer to follow .
     
  15. Vitesse

    Vitesse Senior Member

    We Canadians are not that familiar with the sport of cricket. We are more into the game of hockey which is played on a frozen ice surface, usually outdoors, in -40C temperatures.

    A question has come up - which one could interpret as a bit of a sticky wicket - as to how cheerleaders are now permitted to perform rather vigorous dancing routines during matches in India while supporting their local team.
    Might there be some sort of explanation from the more erudite forum members knowledgeable of the sport of cricket?
    You have obviously seen something of the Indian Premier League, which is viewed by those of us who follow the purer forms of the game as something of an anathema. Like baseball, it's based on the franchise model and involves large amounts of money: the general perception outside the sub-continent is that it's corrupt. It's very much "cricket as entertainment" - a short form of the game called Twenty 20, which also exists elsewhere but in a more regulated form.

    Don't get me wrong - I now enjoy T20 as much as any other form of the game - but the authorities are in danger of killing the goose that laid the golden egg: there's now too much of it being played and crowds are voting with their feet.

    There are other limited-overs formats - 40, 50 and 60 overs a side - but the ultimate is Test cricket, which is played over five days (at one time Tests were timeless and played to a result - I think the record is 11 days!).
     
  16. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    My money is looking good.

    England 1 with 4 drawn / England 2 with 3 drawn.

    If England win the second they will close up shop for the final 3.

    Australia has still got to win 3 and they do not have the team to achieve that.
     
  17. Pieter F

    Pieter F Very Senior Member

    Got out of bed early this morning, to watch the final session. English dominance and control. The Aussies won't like that! Not able to break the English partnerships again..
     
  18. sapper

    sapper WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    The best, and most professional team, that I can recall in 75 years of watching cricket. This fanatical old Geezer sat in front the TV watching the lads strike the ball to all parts of the ground.
    WITH A GREAT BIG SMILE ON MY FACE !
    Sapper
     
  19. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    We have been chatting on other forums about England's performance so far and the pleasing thing for me is our resilience.

    With hindsight too, Strauss's decision to stick by Cook is proving a wonderful piece of man management.

    Come on England!!:)
     
  20. Pieter F

    Pieter F Very Senior Member

    Absolutely, Cookie is doing incredibly well.
     

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