So that's how cricket is played!
September 6, 2001 7:05 AM Subscribe
omg, that's funny. Too bad I can't hear it :)
posted by starvingartist at 7:16 AM on September 6, 2001
posted by starvingartist at 7:16 AM on September 6, 2001
Ahhhh... I still don't get it.
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 7:24 AM on September 6, 2001
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 7:24 AM on September 6, 2001
Mmmm, sorry 'bout that. I guess you have to have watched and wondered at the point of the game of cricket to find this amusing at all.
Anyway back to crushing badgers...
posted by talos at 7:35 AM on September 6, 2001
Anyway back to crushing badgers...
posted by talos at 7:35 AM on September 6, 2001
Here is my (facetious) take on cricket from a couple of weeks ago when someone mailed me Harmful's link.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:09 AM on September 6, 2001
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:09 AM on September 6, 2001
Blimey. I never realised cricket was so complicated, and I've grown up with it!
posted by salmacis at 8:54 AM on September 6, 2001
posted by salmacis at 8:54 AM on September 6, 2001
Thanks for the link, harmful. That was a lot of information.
posted by eckeric at 9:28 AM on September 6, 2001
posted by eckeric at 9:28 AM on September 6, 2001
Steve, cricket is really not that bad, you honestly won't understand the game by just reading up on it. My cousins who were born and brought up in the US, when they were visiting me back home in Mumbai, we played a little a cricket and they were amazed at how similar it was to baseball, simpler in some aspects yet complicated overall.
Off the top of my head, the equivalent of a curve ball are spin and googly. Fast bowlers can deliver the ball at such frightening speeds that cricket bats and wickets have shattered.
The one bounce approach to bowling makes it interesting as the bowler has to adapt his bowling as the pitch condition changes. Full toss (no bounce) bowling is also present but it's rare.
I agree that in baseball, the batsman has it harder, as he has to hit the ball with a smaller bat, and the ball is sent to him directly without any bounces.
posted by riffola at 9:35 AM on September 6, 2001
Off the top of my head, the equivalent of a curve ball are spin and googly. Fast bowlers can deliver the ball at such frightening speeds that cricket bats and wickets have shattered.
The one bounce approach to bowling makes it interesting as the bowler has to adapt his bowling as the pitch condition changes. Full toss (no bounce) bowling is also present but it's rare.
I agree that in baseball, the batsman has it harder, as he has to hit the ball with a smaller bat, and the ball is sent to him directly without any bounces.
posted by riffola at 9:35 AM on September 6, 2001
EA Sports used to have a fairly nifty demo version of their cricket game buried in the "world sports" section of their site. That's more or less where I learned the rules of cricket. Plus it was a way more entertaining way of killing five minute spans than another rousing round of FreeCell.
Sadly, the demo version seems to have magically disappeared into the Internet graveyard since last I checked. If I can find an archival link anywhere, I'll hook y'all up.
posted by youhas at 10:58 AM on September 6, 2001
Sadly, the demo version seems to have magically disappeared into the Internet graveyard since last I checked. If I can find an archival link anywhere, I'll hook y'all up.
posted by youhas at 10:58 AM on September 6, 2001
Cricket - they stop for tea. I think that speaks volumes.
You haven't seen anything until you see a crowd of 20+ Jamaican men crowd around a small handheld tv to watch something as slow as a cricket match.
posted by owillis at 11:05 AM on September 6, 2001
You haven't seen anything until you see a crowd of 20+ Jamaican men crowd around a small handheld tv to watch something as slow as a cricket match.
posted by owillis at 11:05 AM on September 6, 2001
steven,
strange, i always thought the fielders in baseball were the wimps for having to wear a big glove just to catch a ball.
oh and here's some cricket bowling speeds for you. you might be surprised...
posted by afro at 11:29 AM on September 6, 2001
strange, i always thought the fielders in baseball were the wimps for having to wear a big glove just to catch a ball.
oh and here's some cricket bowling speeds for you. you might be surprised...
posted by afro at 11:29 AM on September 6, 2001
You haven't seen anything until you see a crowd of 20+ Jamaican men crowd around a small handheld tv to watch something as slow as a cricket match.
Actually, the flow of a cricket match is generally more tolerable than your beloved game: there's a natural and regular pace (admittedly not frantic) to a cricket match, as Channel 4 have found to their advertisers' advantage; whereas the TV-enforced breaks in an American football match add to the game's endemic flip-flop between action and stasis. That's why Test Match Special is such ideal radio material.
posted by holgate at 11:30 AM on September 6, 2001
Actually, the flow of a cricket match is generally more tolerable than your beloved game: there's a natural and regular pace (admittedly not frantic) to a cricket match, as Channel 4 have found to their advertisers' advantage; whereas the TV-enforced breaks in an American football match add to the game's endemic flip-flop between action and stasis. That's why Test Match Special is such ideal radio material.
posted by holgate at 11:30 AM on September 6, 2001
SDB: It's entirely possible that you were my source for that link; I stuck it in my bookmarks long enough ago to have forgotten where I found it. If so, sorry I didn't attribute it.
posted by harmful at 11:57 AM on September 6, 2001
posted by harmful at 11:57 AM on September 6, 2001
Actually, it was fellow MeFier Lagado who mailed me the link, due to my constant raving about baseball in my site. (I love baseball! I'd rather watch baseball preseason than basketball or hockey playoffs.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 1:02 PM on September 6, 2001
posted by Steven Den Beste at 1:02 PM on September 6, 2001
I found a modest cricket game in Flash. I got big numbers so I think I won, but I sure didn't understand a word.
posted by dhartung at 11:52 PM on September 6, 2001
posted by dhartung at 11:52 PM on September 6, 2001
« Older | Microsoft wins!!! Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by machaus at 7:13 AM on September 6, 2001