Sorry poms!
Dec 28, 2013 22:04:18 #
No resistance again today, looks like a whitewash in the Ashes series. 1 for 200 with a target of 231. US and Canadians can ignore if you like.
Opps, 2 for 200 but I doubt if we will collapse like poms!
Love the game especially when we are on top.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D :D :D
Opps, 2 for 200 but I doubt if we will collapse like poms!
Love the game especially when we are on top.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D :D :D
Dec 29, 2013 06:19:14 #
Dec 29, 2013 07:00:13 #
Testie wrote:
No resistance again today, looks like a whitewash in the Ashes series. 1 for 200 with a target of 231. US and Canadians can ignore if you like.
Opps, 2 for 200 but I doubt if we will collapse like poms!
Love the game especially when we are on top.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D :D :D
Opps, 2 for 200 but I doubt if we will collapse like poms!
Love the game especially when we are on top.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D :D :D
Oi, Oi, Oi
Dec 29, 2013 07:03:42 #
Doddy wrote:
Testie.. take a long walk on a short pier!!
Oh come on mate you didn't feel like that 6 months ago when you were beating us. We have played the better cricket but I've gotta say Cook's field placings today left everybody out here wondering what the hell he was thinking. Let's all hope Sydney is a tight game.
Dec 29, 2013 08:33:23 #
Testie, I'm afraid that after the recess entertainment debacle where one of your recently retired fast bowlers hurled down an over of body line balls at a non cricketer the sportsmanship of you Aussies will always be held up to ridicule. Six balls, none on the stumps and the guy still standing at the end of it bruised and bleeding. That's your idea of sport? No wonder you didn't do so well in the Olympics last year.
Do agree that our side are crap however.
Do agree that our side are crap however.
Dec 29, 2013 08:57:15 #
Wait, I take all the above back, just found out that the guy was Piers Morgan. You will now be held up to ridicule for bowling incompetence.
Still agree our side are a disgrace.
Still agree our side are a disgrace.
Dec 29, 2013 10:39:01 #
As a courtesy to those of us on this side of the pond, I post this brief explanation of the game of cricket.
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 all 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 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!
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 all 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 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!
Dec 29, 2013 10:47:32 #
Testie wrote:
No resistance again today, looks like a whitewash in the Ashes series. 1 for 200 with a target of 231. US and Canadians can ignore if you like.
Opps, 2 for 200 but I doubt if we will collapse like poms!
Love the game especially when we are on top.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D :D :D
Opps, 2 for 200 but I doubt if we will collapse like poms!
Love the game especially when we are on top.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. :D :D :D
No need to try and rub our noses in it. We are so used to the 30+ years of hurt scenario and actually enjoy it. So when we do win anything it is so much the sweeter. :cry: :cry: :cry: :thumbup:
Seasons Greetings to you all Down Under
Dec 29, 2013 11:05:26 #
rmalarz wrote:
As a courtesy to those of us on this side of the p... (show quote)
Yes rmalarz..that's the simple explanation...I think!
Dec 29, 2013 11:10:36 #
Doddy wrote:
Yes rmalarz..that's the simple explanation...I think!
Having attended a few cricket matches here in Arizona and not being informed enough to understand the nuances of the game, that explanation actually made sense to me.
I've also heard that cricket was invented to instil in the British people an understanding of the meaning of the word eternity. 8-)
--Bob
Dec 29, 2013 11:26:46 #
rmalarz wrote:
As a courtesy to those of us on this side of the p... (show quote)
Kinda like American "football", huh? A bunch of overweight men in funny hats and spray-painted leotards stand out in the middle of a field. They all bend over, the guy in the middle plays with another guy's butt for a while. Then they all jump up and run around like a bunch of chickens for a bit, fall down, get up and do it all over again! :shock: :shock:
Dec 29, 2013 11:58:23 #
rmalarz wrote:
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But sometimes they put all the fielders on the boundry where the ball is hit
Aussie fielders
Dec 29, 2013 13:13:51 #
Lmarc wrote:
Kinda like American "football", huh? A bunch of overweight men in funny hats and spray-painted leotards stand out in the middle of a field. They all bend over, the guy in the middle plays with another guy's butt for a while. Then they all jump up and run around like a bunch of chickens for a bit, fall down, get up and do it all over again! :shock: :shock:
That pretty well nails it. One optional addition is significant quantities of beer added to the spectators. 8-)
Oh, your "step and repeat" outline is run for a total of about 12 minutes during the course of the official length of time the game is "played", which is 60 minutes. So there is only about 20% of the time actually spent playing the game.
--Bob
--Bob
Dec 29, 2013 13:18:32 #
Dec 29, 2013 14:58:49 #
wonkytripod wrote:
No need to try and rub our noses in it. We are so used to the 30+ years of hurt scenario and actually enjoy it. So when we do win anything it is so much the sweeter. :cry: :cry: :cry: :thumbup:
Seasons Greetings to you all Down Under
Seasons Greetings to you all Down Under
Only allowed to gloat as I am an ex-pom and took s@&t until I was excepted as Aussie. It's only a game, but no matter who's in front just love watching. :D
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