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Cricket has gone to the dogs
« on: December 12, 2007, 06:44:30 PM »
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22915148-23212,00.html

I've been a cricket fan for about as long as I've been able to walk and played comp cricket until I started university.  I'm not a fan of 20-20 and this is just the final nail in the coffin of cricket.  It's all about chasing money, nothing to do with sport, it's a disgrace - it's just not cricket.



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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 06:50:52 PM »
So it is baseball!

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2007, 07:31:01 PM »
No that's called 'croquet'.  I don't want to be smart arse, but it'd be easier for you to google "cricket wiki" otherwise I'll be here all day trying to explain the rules.

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2007, 07:39:37 PM »
Imagine baseball, just not as cool ;)

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2007, 08:19:29 PM »
It's bizarre how afraid people overseas seem to be of changing sports in any way.  I've even seen people claim that if goal line referees were introduced in soccer, they'd never watch another match again.

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2007, 09:36:50 PM »
TBH I don't think that is an "overseas" issue.  I know that some people have reacted strongly to some of the rule changes in football.

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2007, 09:41:09 PM »
I can't recall anyone claiming they'd never watch football again after instituting instant replay or something.  If they did, they're morons.

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2007, 09:37:31 AM »
is that teh game with the mallets and the arches that
stick out of the grass?

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2007, 09:39:26 AM »
smart arse,.

That's hard to say.

Is arse really a word? I always thought it was
just some way to swear without actually having to
say the word. Sorta like friggin'.

:disbelief:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arse

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2007, 11:06:59 AM »
is that teh game with the mallets and the arches that
stick out of the grass?

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
you know that is far too many men going in and out of each other

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2007, 12:11:08 PM »
Polo

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2007, 02:27:04 PM »
no, that IS the game with the horses.

are you thinking he meant water-polo?
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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2007, 04:16:55 PM »
Polo

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2007, 05:32:05 PM »
Women's basketball

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Re: Cricket has gone to the dogs
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2007, 05:48:58 PM »
polio