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Thread ID: 79255	2007-05-14 04:07:00	I Need A NZ Interpretation Here	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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549710	2007-05-14 04:07:00	Watching Jeeves & Wooster on our PBS, they are playing Cricket . OK . . I can figure who the bowler is . . but who's the wicket? What's the play considered . . do they run bases like baseball? Why is there a sticky wicket and where is he sticky? What's that mean anyway? Why aren't there any cheerleaders and beer commercials? Classy . . I think he's driving a Morgan . Next on the station lineup is "The Black Adder", again with Hugh Laurie . He's become quite an item here in the US since his "House" is so popular now . Then we get to REALLY good TV . . . "The Red Green Show" and "Monty Python" .	SurferJoe46 (51)
549711	2007-05-14 04:14:00	Cricket Oh dear Joe, what a question. Probably a bit beyond an American's understanding. However here is a quote from the holy home of cricket in the UK, the "MCC" Don't say I didn't warn you!!!!! :D ...................... You have two sides one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that goes in goes out and when he's out he come 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. When both sides have been in and out including not outs, that's the end of the game. HOWZAT! Source: MCC	kenj (9738)
549712	2007-05-14 04:33:00	Is that on even-numbered Thursdays or don't they play the game until the weekend?	SurferJoe46 (51)
549713	2007-05-14 04:44:00	Wait until they challenge US television viewers with rounders. This is the children's game from which "baseball" was copied. I believe baseball has some popularity in the US. ;) The US has taken many things from the civilised countries, Joe, especially from games and other childish things. Lacking a history, one has been created ... often from fiction, of the class of nursery rhymes. Even in politics: the "filibuster" is copied from cricket.	Graham L (2)
549714	2007-05-14 04:45:00	Real cricket is played on a village green, and there will be elderly colonels sitting around harumphing, and occasionally waking up to call out "Well played, Sir". Wickets are pieces of wood, otherwise know as stumps, not people. The term 'wicket' also refers to the area in front of the stumps, Three stumps at each end of the pitch, which is 22 yards in length. The expression sticky wicket probably arises when the ground, ie the wicket is wet and greasy, and has passed into the English language "The boy stood on the burning deck playing a game of cricket, the ball went up his trouser leg and hit his middle wicket" I can say that because Jack Cornwell, the boy who stood on the burning deck in WWI, and won a VC is/was a distant cousin, I'm sure he wouldn't mind :) I have to admit I don't really know much about cricket at all, though I did play once in the Joe Lucas apprentice team. Edit: There used to be an annual cricket match, much like the "village green" scenario, played between my village Hinton Martell, and Witchampton the neigbouring village, years ago.	Terry Porritt (14)
549715	2007-05-14 05:16:00	Ok - all these replies are trying to help an unbeliever to understand - how about a bit of reciprocation Joe what's American Football all about and why does it exist, especially when you don't have cucumber sandwiches served at tea?	dvm (6543)
549716	2007-05-14 05:57:00	Actually I quite enjoy watching American football, played on the gridiron. It is quite different to rugby and can be an incredibly precise game at the top level.	Winston001 (3612)
549717	2007-05-14 05:59:00	OK..I can figure who the bowler is..but who's the wicket? Wicket keeper catches the ball much like a player in baseball, but they can catch the player out and hit the wickets if the player steps out of the box. What's the play considered..do they run bases like baseball? In cricket you have a partner at the other end. When you hit the ball and attempt to run, your partner also runs. You pretty much swap sides. Why aren't there any cheerleaders and beer commercials? Because this is not the USA :), Rugby matches tend to have cheerleaders but not cricket.	trinsic (6945)
549718	2007-05-14 06:06:00	... American football, played on the gridiron. So the players are called waffles?	Graham L (2)
549719	2007-05-14 06:16:00	Is that on even-numbered Thursdays or don't they play the game until the weekend? If you really want to be able to "understand" the sport of cricket you probably need to actually go to a match - preferably a limited 50 overs match aka a One Day International match and have the person you go with explain it to you as the match progresses, since being from the US (alien to the sport of cricket) it is highly unlikely that there is any other way you would grasp the concept of a game that was invented by the British and perfected by the Aussies. Some very basic terms to describe cricket An "Over" consists of 6 balls bowled from one and of the cricket pitch which swaps after the 6th ball has been bowled. 4 runs are scored when the batsman hits the ball which bounces once before going over the boundary a maximum of 6 runs are scored when the batsman hits the ball over the boundary on the full. when a batsman gets caught or bowled on the first ball of the over or innings it is called a "Duck"- of the quacking variety. The main object of the game is for the team that bats first to score as many runs (between the wickets) as possible inside the 50 overs, the team that was bowling then goes into bat and tries to get a higher score inside of the 50 overs in order to win the match. Any more explanation that that will get your head spinning.	winmacguy (3367)
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