Please tell me they will be wearing masks and gloves
Happy to let Bryson have the last humourous word. The hatchet job he did on Austria and Kurt Waldheim in one of his books was unforgettable.
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Some of the tests I saw had combined scores near 1000, which pretty much meant any scoring event in the game was statistically irrelevant to the outcome of the game. Which makes it the perfect sport for napping through on the weekends safe in the knowledge that you didnāt miss anything while asleep.
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Thatās not atypical.
You Yanks want it both ways - you deride football (soccer) because NOT ENOUGH SCORING POINTS and do the same to cricket because TOO MANY SCORING POINTS.
A neutral observer might be tempted to think youāre making it up as you go along.
ETA and the critical number isnāt 1000, but 20. DUCY
What weāre looking for, and what Iām surprised didnāt catch on here, is Aussie rules football. A combination of all the best parts of a jocks childhood: Tip Drills, Punt Returns, and Smear the, um Different One. And high stepping refs sprinting to midfield because it makes them feel funny in their pants.
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I was a pit boss in Reno, and stopped at the turf club to put in a bet after a graveyard shift the day of that game. Wind was blowing straight out at 40+ mph. The total was 22 - game went over in (I think) the 3rd or 4th inning.
MM MD
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A very simplified version there but a good effort nonetheless :)
*humorous
If this thread has stopped swinging it can take a bit of Miley
was googling starting all over (obv) for reasons that donāt translate that well after a 4pts and a bottle of wine.
(edit - damn that is awful)
Thanks
The song is awful, but the cinematography, holy crap. They squeezed the whole thing into one shot.
I think itās time we made a public pledge to stop responding to each other. I donāt like you and you donāt like me. Fine. Iām sure neither of us will lose any sleep over that.
I promise to never respond to another post of yours if you will do the same.
Deal?
Even I gave your child-like mind too much credit I guess.
Ok. I guess I will unilaterally disarm as my opponent isnāt capable of making a rational decision.
Carry on calling me names and such to prove how super duper left you are.
This is the last time I reply to you.
Cricket goat sport AINEC. God I miss the days when I had the time to watch every single ball of a 5 day test on the idiot box FOC.
Eta lol at the intro "summer 2005, England, in the grip of a highly contagious virus "
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The whole many day thing is so confusing to me. Lol
calling someone names in a post where you criticize them for namecalling
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That ball!
Shane fucking Warne was a magician.
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Cricket isnāt that complicated at all.
Watch a single T20 match (the shortest format) with the goal of figuring out whatās going on and thereās no reason you wouldnāt have enough understanding to follow along by the end of it.
Iām an American and Iāve become addicted to following cricket over the past five or so years. It definitely helps living in Asia vs the US timezone-wise, but international cricket is a convenient sport to follow because thereās only twelve teams at the top level and only one or two series going on at a time practically year round. Then in April and May you have the Indian Premier League which has eight teams of the best players in the world (minus Pakistanis).
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