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Post by 📬🚑📭 on Apr 13, 2017 17:45:58 GMT
It seems to be an exciting game, but I don't understand how one batsman can get a century, 100 runs in a game! Maybe you Aussies can enlighten me. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 19:08:22 GMT
I'm no cricket expert, but if you "knock it out of the park" it counts as 6 runs. From Wikipedia:
The act of running is unnecessary if the batsman hits the ball to the marked boundary of the field. If the ball reaches the boundary having made contact with the ground, four runs are automatically added to the scores of both the batsman and the team. If the batsman succeeds in hitting the ball over the boundary on the full (i.e., the ball does not make contact with the ground until it is beyond the boundary), six runs are added.
Edited to add: being a bit of an anglophile, I've been intrigued by cricket, but have never watched it for more than a few minutes on TV or YouTube. I think like baseball you have to grow up with it to fully understand what's going on.
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Post by rhs6358 on Apr 13, 2017 19:56:17 GMT
Why are they dressed like beekeepers?
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Post by 📬🚑📭 on Apr 13, 2017 20:35:26 GMT
Why are they dressed like beekeepers?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 22:27:24 GMT
Favorite cricket term
LBW leg before wicket
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Post by pizzabagel on Apr 14, 2017 0:25:19 GMT
Favorite cricket term LBW leg before wicket Do I take it that's like our HBP (hit by pitch), although more specific? |
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Post by 📬🚑📭 on Apr 14, 2017 0:37:41 GMT
Favorite cricket term LBW leg before wicket Do I take it that's like our HBP (hit by pitch), although more specific? Not at all. LBW is an infraction putting the batsman out, so it has the opposite result of HBP. |
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Post by Hawkeye-Costanza on Apr 14, 2017 3:21:28 GMT
Cricket is even more boring than baseball. Test matches go for five days for fucks sake, five days!!
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Post by DeltaHomicide on Apr 14, 2017 6:24:13 GMT
Cricket is even more boring than baseball. Test matches go for five days for fucks sake, five days!! No break? |
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Post by Hawkeye-Costanza on Apr 14, 2017 7:01:07 GMT
eight hours a day, breaks for lunch and drinks etc but that's it. Absolutely brutal to watch
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Post by pizzabagel on Apr 14, 2017 9:48:58 GMT
Cricket is even more boring than baseball. Test matches go for five days for fucks sake, five days!! So that's what the British did to POWs, force them to watch cricket matches? Wouldn't that be against the terms of the Geneva Convention? |
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Post by rhs6358 on Apr 14, 2017 10:16:22 GMT
eight hours a day, breaks for lunch and drinks etc but that's it. Absolutely brutal to watch Only lunch and dinner breaks? Have they thought about what to do when you have to use a-da-toilet? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 12:22:07 GMT
They sweat it out.
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Post by IsoscelesKramer on Apr 15, 2017 1:39:31 GMT
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Post by Lomez on Apr 19, 2017 16:20:47 GMT
I'd imagine the liquor would make it go even slower...
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Post by Hawkeye-Costanza on Apr 20, 2017 1:39:27 GMT
Brilliant sketch.
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Post by IsoscelesKramer on Apr 20, 2017 1:48:41 GMT
I do recall a similar divan being brought on at Heddingly in 9 BC against the darkies... |
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Post by pizzabagel on Apr 20, 2017 9:56:45 GMT
Cricket:
Crockett:
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Post by rhs6358 on Apr 20, 2017 13:39:00 GMT
Also Cricket:  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 14:57:02 GMT
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Post by pizzabagel on Apr 20, 2017 17:45:59 GMT
Looks like you have some competition, znep, ol' boy. Now that's what you call the timeless art of seduction. |
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Post by 📬🚑📭 on Apr 20, 2017 19:01:17 GMT
Are you old enough to remember the day the music died? |
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Post by pizzabagel on Apr 20, 2017 21:57:08 GMT
Are you old enough to remember the day the music died? Answer: No, I was born too late to be aware of it. Although I was an infant when it happened.
Comments: That graphic is disturbing on so many levels. Also, don't the insects look more like grasshoppers than crickets?
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Post by 📬🚑📭 on Apr 21, 2017 2:09:29 GMT
Are you old enough to remember the day the music died? Answer: No, I was born too late to be aware of it. Although I was an infant when it happened.
Comments: That graphic is disturbing on so many levels. Also, don't the insects look more like grasshoppers than crickets?
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Post by Hawkeye-Costanza on Apr 21, 2017 6:51:12 GMT
Cricket, grasshopper.. What's the difference laddie?
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Post by rhs6358 on Apr 21, 2017 12:07:04 GMT
Cricket, grasshopper.. What's the difference laddie? I think Ed Sullivan influenced the name. "You know, boys. You can't say "hopper" on network television. Why not call yourselves The Crickets? It's cute and it's family-friendly" |
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Post by nutsberryfarm ⛑ on Jun 30, 2019 0:25:54 GMT
It seems to be an exciting game, but I don't understand how one batsman can get a century, 100 runs in a game! Maybe you Aussies can enlighten me. they are playing baseball in london now. |
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Post by pizzabagel on Jun 30, 2019 0:37:22 GMT
It seems to be an exciting game, but I don't understand how one batsman can get a century, 100 runs in a game! Maybe you Aussies can enlighten me. they are playing baseball in london now. I never thought I'd live to see that. |
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Post by rhs6358 on Jun 30, 2019 11:00:12 GMT
they are playing baseball in london now. I never thought I'd live to see that. Playing baseball in London is so enchanting that you devoted your life to dreaming about it? You're a fascinating man, Mr. pizzabagel. |
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Post by pizzabagel on Jun 30, 2019 11:37:35 GMT
I never thought I'd live to see that. Playing baseball in London is so enchanting that you devoted your life to dreaming about it? You're a fascinating man, Mr. pizzabagel. Enchanting isn't how I'd describe it. What's the word I'm looking for? Breathtaking. That's it. Breathtaking. |
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