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Post number 9926

talos — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:05:48 -0800

So that's how cricket is played!

By: machaus

machaus — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:13:35 -0800

link descriptions are your friend. noisy flash in an office cube is not.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:16:38 -0800

omg, that's funny. Too bad I can't hear it :)

By: hotdoughnutsnow

hotdoughnutsnow — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:24:32 -0800

Ahhhh... I still don't get it.

By: talos

talos — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:35:18 -0800

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...

By: harmful

harmful — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:40:06 -0800

If you really want an explanation of cricket...

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:09:52 -0800

Here is my (facetious) take on cricket from a couple of weeks ago when someone mailed me Harmful's link.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:54:52 -0800

Blimey. I never realised cricket was so complicated, and I've grown up with it!

By: eckeric

eckeric — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:28:59 -0800

Thanks for the link, harmful. That was a lot of information.

By: riffola

riffola — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:35:31 -0800

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.

By: youhas

youhas — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:58:41 -0800

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.

By: owillis

owillis — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:05:47 -0800

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.

By: afro

afro — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:29:56 -0800

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...

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:30:25 -0800

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.

By: harmful

harmful — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:57:26 -0800

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.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 13:02:53 -0800

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.)

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:52:52 -0800

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.