Reply With QuoteWhat, like crochet?Originally Posted by chaggle
Cricket is exciting!!
I've just watched Somerset beat Sussex against the odds in a 40 over match.
Last night it was an almost impossible win by Australia against Pakistan in the World 20/20 championship in the West Indies.
Tomorrow England and Australia meet in the final of the 20/20. Should be good.
What, like crochet?
What, like crochet?
I last played in 1962. I was thrown off the team for refusing to play silly mid on,a positions in which my father lost his two front teeth at 16. (really;he had a plate)
Cricket does has it moments (assuming one isn't asleep and misses them)
Of course we haven't quite forgiven the Brits for the bodyline bowling invented by them from sheer desperation (to get Bradman) on their ashes tour of Australia in 1932. --and a fat lot of good it them .
Cricket;like baseball on valium (Robin Williams)
We won - and easily!!
I think that's the first thing England have been champions at something since the 2003 - Rugby World Cup (but I could be wrong)...
Each to their own....but....
Snore.......!
Sorry. Dozed off. Cricket has that effect on me....!
Mind you, so does football lately. I must try to muster some interest in time for the World Cup.
Football ? Do you mean soccer?Mind you, so does football lately. I must try to muster some interest in time for the World Cup.
Here 'football' means 'Australian Rules Football'.It's like Gaelic Football,but not as couth. In Aussie Rules you kick the ball if and only if you can't kick the man.
Apart from cups no padding is worn. This means there are a gratifying number of injuries at each game,with only a few permanent neck or spinal injuries each season. Fatalities are unusual. (hard to break your neck when you you don't have one per se)
Yes, I played football at school. I was small, (5 feet exactly at 14) fast and nasty,so played 'rover' (no fixed position,you follow the ball) Great fun but you don't half get knackered and usually sprigged right up the back.. --Oh I was 5'11 at 17, so played 'ruck' (you jump for the ball when it's bounced by the referee,and you get sprigged again.)
Happy days..
Last edited by Drop Bear; 17th May 2010 at 11:49 AM.
I think I remember going to a cricket game in the early 70's. It started at 1pm. Four hours later, I looked at my watch, and it was twenty past.Each to their own....but....
Snore.......!
Sorry. Dozed off. Cricket has that effect on me....!
Mind you, so does football lately. I must try to muster some interest in time for the World Cup.
I saw some 'Aussie Rules' on telly once. Entertaining for a while but then found myself baffled as to the rules , or should I say, apparent lack of them!
Anyway; we are hijacking Chaggle's cricket thread (sorry!) ....
Don't worry. Nobody seems to like cricket here apart from me.
I don't mind it, but it would have to be a Sunday village green affair, with a rather nice packed tea and a comfortable deck chair, and where I didn't actually have to watch the cricket itself.
I already explained the rule. Do pay attention,there's a good chap.I saw some 'Aussie Rules' on telly once. Entertaining for a while but then found myself baffled as to the rules , or should I say, apparent lack of them!
It's like Gaelic Football,but not as couth. In Aussie Rules you kick the ball if and only if you can't kick the man.
I already explained the rule. Do pay attention,there's a good chap.
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