Oh btw, my wifes pet name is Cricket really really, that and Kid..

ewwww...criket

@shu ... Any chances of kenya getting into the finals .. with the way they are playing and with their luck..

They have to get past Australia first....bit of a tall order...

Do Cricket officials really say "That's not Cricket" to players who violate the rules?

Nope, they just laugh and disqualify you from playing for 12 months.

Nope Jafo.. Kenya plays with India in the Semis.. So they have to get through India..

PooPs, I'd say, if I ndia were to lose to Kenya, they would be better off seeking citizenship in Kenya too...

And Ande, shouldn't your statement have an 'only' somewhere in between?

Nope, Rules are rules. There is an appeal process available and rules can be amended. No action taken, the sentence stands. Of course there are those who do not accept the decision, I mean those who ascribe to the "tall poppy syndrome"

anyone have any links to a Cricket web site, want to get a look at the uniforms, shoes, uhm that flat bat/club thingy? oh and do they pitch over or under hand?

I've drawm a two part sketch of one ready to throw the balland one bent holding hands down and out a litte grasping thin air cause I don't know the correct shape of that wood thing

drawn

uhm that flat bat/club thingy OK, someone hold him down....I'll beat some sense into him with a flat bat/club thingy...

but I still don't know what the wood thingy is, a Wicket? or is that the stick in the ground at each end? and the ball, whats that called?

ok...

I'll go read, what I get for sitting in the cheap seats
cheap / cheat?

what I mean, I's bien lazy which never pays in the end...

The ball is called a 'ball'.
The bat is called a 'bat'.

With me so far?...

A 'wicket' comprises 3 stumps and 2 bails on top of them....but is also a reference to a batsman who is now 'out'.....

That's enough learnin' for today...

cool, okky doky

going to scan something and up it as my desktop as soon as the HP drivers finish installing across the network onto this thing.

Hey can i join these lessons 2 .. there are somethings even i dont understand .. even though ive been seeing cricket for a very long time ....

mm, , I dun no I want to tell anyone

updated my desktop shot with an idea I was kicking around late at night and early in the morning. Each person was thrown together in about ten minutes each and on seperate paper. So they really do not meet correctly, and the one with the bat is really fubar of the two...

I need to go to a good site for cricket fans which I can look at the body moves in action snap shots and the uniforms, also how they pitch, and stand and such when batting...

anyway...

"And that's the end of the over" is my favorite Cricket phrase.

Is it fair to literally "bowl" the ball as opposed to throwing it?

Has there ever been any tea table clearing brawls? I've only been able to catch "tests" on TV in Asia. I don't think I've ever seen any real matches.

I wish we played Cricket in the US...

Then again, we'd ruin it...

Rugby is a club sport only at Colleges

dunno why they can not make it just like football...
Cricket would be good also, Soccar was taking off pertty good for a bit, but seems to have fallen to the road side for some reason also...

I'll pick up where Jafo left off.


The ground is more-or-less round, with an area in the middle, which is approximately 10 meters long and 2 meters wide, called the pitch. There are two Batsman on the field at one time. They stand at one end of the pitch. One Batsman (the Batter) stands at the end the ball is bowled to. The other (the Runner) is at the other end and counts the blades of grass in the ground until the other batsman tells him to wake up, and they both run to the other end. Each time they swap ends, it's called a "run", and is worth 1 (one) point on the score.

If the Batter hits the ball and it goes over the boundary line, it is worth 4 (four) runs. If it goes over the boundry line on the full (without bouncing) it is worth 6 (six) runs.

And on that note, I'll leave the rest up to someone else.

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~laban/cricket/laws.html All the laws of cricket explained simply

http://uk.cricinfo.com/homepage/index01.html More local info for UK fans...

Fuzzy....you got a link there to help the English team play better?...

Not 20 metrea....but 22 yards or 66 feet or one chain or 100 links or 792 inches...

'metrea'?...drat....