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I don't like cricket...
Oh no, I love it!
Well it's summer down under (that sounds dirty) and that means one thing: cricket. Days of sitting out in the sun drinking overpriced beer and eating overpriced food, falling asleep in front of the tv and listening Kerry O'Keeffe make himself, and just himself, laugh. This year the Ashes come back again and England's collective arse is going to get whipped.
Are there any other cricket fans in the forum? Or anyone I can turn into a cricket fan by answering your questions?
Well it's summer down under (that sounds dirty) and that means one thing: cricket. Days of sitting out in the sun drinking overpriced beer and eating overpriced food, falling asleep in front of the tv and listening Kerry O'Keeffe make himself, and just himself, laugh. This year the Ashes come back again and England's collective arse is going to get whipped.
Are there any other cricket fans in the forum? Or anyone I can turn into a cricket fan by answering your questions?
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Because cricket is fought mostly between former British Colonies there is a lot of national pride at stake. Like soccer countries diplomatic relations can be deeply effected by the happenings in a cricket match. When India and Pakistan play there is alway a chance it will erupt in violence, most countries take international sport a lot more seriously than they do in the US, and it is the main way we express out patriotism.
Anyway, I never saw, nor played cricket in my life (other than clips of it in films) until a few minutes ago. I just found some filmed games online, and I have to say it looks pretty fun! I think the FRC should put on a game next spring. I just hope we can find teh equipment without paying a fortune.
As for the time thing, cricket taking a long time is a semi-myth. Test cricket is the one that goes on for 5 days and most people find very boring until they understand the game. The One Day version takes, well a day, and is the more strictly 'exciting' of the two. Players are more willing to take risks, endings are usually close and its a simple 'one team makes a score the other team tries to beat it' set up. Twenty20 cricket is a relatively new invention and takes 3 hours to play, I haven't seen much of it but it is really taking off.
Thats professional and semi-professional cricket, if you and a bunch of mates want to hit the ball around it can take as long as you want, and you don't need much equipment. Beach or backyard cricket if typically played with a tennis ball, a plastic or old bat, and practically anything for stumps (rubbish bins a fav).
When we lived in Colony, we wanted to play softball/kickball/etc all the time. No one else ever wanted to. I could never get anyone to play tennis or ping pong, and no one cared that we had a badminton net in the closet (except Luke, who played with us once). ScoJo was the only one who ever wanted to go running.
Actually, I've played more sports with Luke than I have with the rest of you fools. ^_~ We played tennis a bunch of times one summer.
I remember specifically the day we tried to play kickball when we were freshmen. Hardly anyone wanted to do it, and almost no one came. The people who did show up got tired walking to the field, and it was a total bust.
We did play wall ball once, but were never able to convince anyone to ever play it again.
You're on -our- side for sports. Help us convince the rest of the crew to play softball or tackle football someday.
p.s. Australia now 2-0 in the battle to regain the Ashes from the poms. Well done to England for snatching defeat from the jaws of a draw.