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coooooool
coooooool

Aug-26-2005 06:05

hi any one who knows about cricket


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Jake Fenton
Jake Fenton

Sep-1-2005 11:02

Danniella, cricket is like our version of baseball, except there isn't a diamond, the batsmen run backwards and forwards between two sets of stumps. Oh, and the games can last a little bit longer, too. ;)

I've been absolutely hooked by the Ashes this year. It's been the most exciting test series I can remember. Who needs Twenty20? ;) Unfortunately for me I was just a little bit too young to understand what all the fuss was about when Botham tonked the Aussies single-handed in 1981, but everybody says this has been a better contest between the best two teams in the world.

I do hope Simon Jones is ok for the fifth match though. The key to England's success so far has been the unrelenting pressure from the bowlers and the ability to bring on an old-ball specialist for some tasty reverse-swing when Harmison and Flintoff get a bit knackered. If Jones is missing it could well make the difference, as the margin between these two sides is so slim. And I think it would be an injustice against England if the Aussies sneak it and level the series.

We want the ashes back!!

As a side note, if Ricky Ponting didn't get the man of the match for his performance at Edgbaston then he was hard-done by. It was one of the finest innings I've ever seen, a heroic effort when the England bowlers were really turning the screws to get those wickets.

P.S. I've got a ticket for the third day at the Oval! I can't wait.

Arthur Granville Smith
Arthur Granville Smith
Well-Connected

Sep-1-2005 11:46

Lucky you, Jake

I'm a recent cricket convert - got into it this year because of the Ashes.

What's happened to cricket? It always used to be so boring :-)

Professor Woo
Professor Woo

Sep-1-2005 13:05

Cricket huh?
Hmmm, It sounds like a rather complicated semi-formal sport. But I can't figure out how they get those noisy insects to play it.

Jake Fenton
Jake Fenton

Sep-1-2005 14:08

You could describe it as complicated, but I'd choose the words intricate, subtle and arcane before that, Professor Woo. :)

Oh and in answer to your question, Arthur Granville Smith (can I call you Aggers? :-D), cricket started becoming more watchable when Geoffrey Boycott retired.

Arthur Granville Smith
Arthur Granville Smith
Well-Connected

Sep-2-2005 02:06

Please feel free to call me Aggers, Jake (although I'm not sure what the significance is!) Should I be calling you something else then?

I think cricket is quite a simple game - I've got to grips with it very quickly! Of course, as with most sports, you have to devise your tactics and counter-tactics to suit each match, which is where it gets interesting.

Who's the former player who's commentating on the Ashes whose every other comment to the current bowler seems to be "Give 'em one in the ribs"? That's not our Geoff is it?

Jake Fenton
Jake Fenton

Sep-2-2005 11:37

You obviously are new to Cricket ;)

The BBC test match special team has a way of abbreviating everybody's name. Aggers, Blowers and so on. I saw your initials AGS and immediately thought of Aggers (Jonathan Agnew). You'll not have heard that famous bit of live commentary when Aggers made Brian (Johnners) Johnstone wet his pants laughing on Radio 4? You'd never forget him wheezing "Oh, stop it Aggers!". A moment of radio genius.

Oh and I expect so. Sounds like something that stubborn old git (I mean that affectionately) would say... Are you thinking of the old bloke with the wonky grin in the white fedora with the MCC hatband?

Arthur Granville Smith
Arthur Granville Smith
Well-Connected

Sep-3-2005 04:03

Well, they never show the commentators while they're commentating, do they? :-) I can picture him from your description though.

It just made me laugh - there are all the others discussing the "finer" points of how the bowler should bowl against a specific batsman, and his answer to everything is to "give 'em one in the ribs". I thought cricket was a "gentlemanly" game!

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Sep-4-2005 07:27

I miss cricket, I haven't seen a game in ages. I'm glad England won the Ashes though... Aussie Aussie Aussie BOO BOO BOO, they're losing everything at the moment. GO THE AB's TRI-NATION WINNERS!

Jake Fenton
Jake Fenton

Sep-4-2005 07:36

We haven't won the ashes yet, Lady Emerald... Australia could win at the Oval and level the series 2-2. If they do that they keep the urn. It's all to play for...

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Sep-4-2005 07:38

*laughs* Really? See what living in Korea does to a person!
Silly Australia. Underarm bowling freaks. Still, better than bribing refree South Africa, cheating scum.

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