Go away, you're not taking this thread seriously enough
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
thank goodness
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"in you're interested in this topic you could try reading the thread, which is a good one, rather than cracking jokes about how asian cricketers are all meek and subservient"
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ya perl is easy
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
perl is basically about people in white clothes standing around, running and leaping in the sun
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
they dont even wear the white clothes anymore ;_;
― jhøshea, Friday, 31 August 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
it is like the polyphonic spree but with more balls
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
... and better songs
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpsxaDvtOTw
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ok everyone im gonna try. this is what i got from louis' explanation in the other thread and from watching it some:
11 guys on a team. everyone gets a turn to swing the stick at the ball once or twice (depending on the type of match).
when you hit the ball you run from the stump youre standing near to the other one (and maybe back again depending on how far you hit it).
you get to keep swinging the stick at the ball over and over again until the ball hits the stump or is caught by the opposing team in the air - at which point you are out!
the field is round.
― jhøshea, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
That'll do for now
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ the basics, beautifully rendered
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm just in a bad mood because the red sox got swept by the yankees
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
well, my mood will alter depending upon whether my beloved worcestershire can pull off an unlikely and heroic victory against durham this afternoon.
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
My mood was improved immeasurably on listening to Broad and Bopara bat last night - and noting that Stuart Broad looks like an elongated Ziggy (from Big Brother)
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
*sigh* The pitch is oval.
― Stone Monkey, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
*sigh* The pitch is rectangular, the ground is oval
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
stone monkey, that is the worst piece of attempted pedantry i've ever seen
and there is only one Oval. (well, two if we're counting the one in barbados)
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
wait a minute we ARE condescending pricks.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
:-D
let us now be welcoming and let the people taste cricket howsoever they wish
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh baseball fans also need to understand this point: the batter and pitcher are both in the CENTER of the playing field! there are no foul balls. so hitting it behind you is just as good as hitting it in front of you. mindbending.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
*sigh* that's CENTRE not CENTER
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
hitting it behind you is liable to have you caught by the wicketkeeper or the slips, though.
(the slips stand in an arc around from the wicketkeeper to the side you're facing when you're in your batting stance)
haha tom
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
unless they are a leg slip.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
mate, sometimes even I don't understand leg slip
(newbies, leg slip is a very archaic position and it's never used EVER. unless alastair cook is batting.)
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
cricket is sort of like if american football teams were allowed unlimited chances to advance 10 yards -- and you could score in either end zone
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Now you've lost me
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
in the interests of transatlantic comity, here is an interesting page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_cricket_and_baseball
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I prefer to face the bowler myself.
― Dr.C, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Cricket's bowlers are grouped into different categories based on their bowling style—pacemen, seamers, off-spinners (or finger-spinners), leg-spinners (or wrist-spinners)
Uhhhhhhh, where is SWING bowling? Oops, forgot to sigh... *sigh*
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
swing is just a feature of pace bowling
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
How do you define "pace bowling" tho? I mean, if you're going to separate seamers from pacemen? You don't have to be a pace bowler to swing the ball, any more than you have to be a pace bowler to seam the ball surely?
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Tom it's wikipedia, just add "and so on" to that list
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
pacemen, seamers
does not compute, there are genuinely quick bowlers who also seam it about, e.g. makhaya ntini
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Tom it's wikipedia
Yes, silly me
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Well that list is kind of bollocks.
There are Fast Bowlers 80-9, Mediums and Slow bowlers (who are 99% spinners)
Fast and Medium pacers can exploit swing.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
With some bowlers, swing is all they've got, hello Matthew Hoggard
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, that was a but unfair on Hoggy
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
You leave Hoggy alone....
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
The Bowlers Holding The Batsmans Willey
― pfunkboy, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the lamest sport in the world apart from that thing the US calls football that stops every five seconds.
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
amirite?
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
hoggard bowled beautifully on our last tour of india in non-swinging conditions; his length was superb, his line consistent, and he developed an ability to cut the ball (essentially, spin it at pace; it doesn't turn much but it can be very effective)
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i wonder what heave ho makes of pakistan's many cricketing controversies, like the oval forfeiture last year, or the reprieves handed out to 'drug cheats' shoaib akhtar and mohammed asif (who's shaping up to be a bowling great). i wonder who his favourite players are, in fact. mohammed hafeez, perhaps? or possibly danish kaneria?
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Mohammed Asif is brilliant
― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
p.s. i'd never have kicked pakistan out of world cricket for any of their offences. some people have something against them, but i think they liven the sport up like you wouldn't believe. it's NEVER dull on or off the pitch with the green army around
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
there's something v. similar in baseball called a "cut fastball" or "cutter", which is almost as fast as a normal fastball but has movement on it
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
taking sides: chad bradford vs lasith malinga for wackiest ball release action in sport?
― CarsmileSteve, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_(baseball)
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
haha steve also don't forget kent tekulve... or josh papelbon, seen here:
http://www.kieranchapman.net/images/weblog/joshpapelbon.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't yr surname also, like,
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah
Yep
― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
as this is the cricket ephemera thread not the rolling cricket match thread i shan't ask you to pass comment on yr lads' rickety bowling or suliemann benn's fielding/presence in international sport, may revive the other one tho, which will confuse ppl
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link