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Author Topic: Cricket: Ashes 5-0 Clean Sweep to Australia! Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-01-2013 03:27 AM                     Hi John Here we go for round three. The weather has been a little hit and miss this week so the play may be a bit broken up. Good luck (I think you will need it)  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-02-2013 10:07 AM                     Or maybe it is us who need the luck  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-03-2013 11:18 AM                        Pippa Middleton has decided that she is going to try to get the Americans interested in cricket, to which end she's written an article, trying to explain it to them. She writes that 'you don't have to understand it to enjoy it', which is just as well, because she made it embarrassingly clear that there are some pretty basic rules of the game that she herself is unaware of. Most notably, she wrote that 'A batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out. This goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.' She seems just not to know that an innings can also end when the total number of overs has been completed, the batting side declares, or, in the case of a test match on its final day or a one-day game, the match finishes early because of rain. More worryingly, she seems ignorant of the fact that cricket is played on a significant (though admittedly, not very big) scale in the US, especially in the states and cities with Caribbean immigrant populations; and, from what I gather, it's growing. Still, Middleton has provided some free entertainment, I suppose. She makes Kim Kardashian look positively discrete and retiring.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-04-2013 07:41 PM                     Finally our batsmen have arrived but so has the crappy weather. Our only chance now is to declare first thing and try to bowl you guys out in a day...but the weather may dampen even that possibility.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-05-2013 10:38 AM                        Match abandoned on the final day due to crappy weather and ended in a draw - sorry. Final score: England 368 all out and 37 for 3 after 20.3 overs / Australia 527 for 7 declared and 172 for 7 declared. Comparing the second innings figures with the first, it looks like the wicket was deteriorating fast in the last couple of days. It's a pity - getting the three openers showed it was clear that if the rain had stayed away, Australia's declaration was the right call and that bowling England out in a day was do-able: in any case it would have been a very exciting final day.  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 08-05-2013 02:36 PM                     Whenever I try to understand cricket my head spins. Maybe you should draw me pictures. Football (American), baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball OK. But cricket? Geeze.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-05-2013 09:46 PM                        Cricket is really very similar to baseball. The essential differences are: 1. Instead of an innings lasting for three 'outs', it lasts for ten, or until the alloted number of 'overs' (six deliveries by the bowler (pitcher)) for the innings have been completed. 2. Each team gets one innings each (in a half-day, or '20/20', or one-day match) or two (a five-day match, or 'test match'). 3. Whereas in baseball, if the batsman fails to hit a legally pitched ball it's a strike and it takes three to dismiss him, in cricket, the ball has to be legally bowled and strike the 'wicket' (three stumps with a horizontal bar, or 'bails' on top). If it does, the batsman is out on the first strike. If it doesn't, it doesn't matter if the batsman chooses not to play it - he stays in. However, a batsman can also be dismissed if the umpire judges him to be 'leg before wicket' (LBW) during the delivery - in other words, he's standing in such a way that the delivery would hit his body rather than the wicket if he didn't hit it with the bat. 4. A 'no ball' in cricket is equivalent to a 'ball' in baseball, except that the batsman scores one run. 5. If the batsman hits the ball over the boundary (white marker rope around the edge of the field), he scores four runs - equivalent to hitting a home run in baseball. If he hits it right out of the stadium, that's six. 6. Individual runs are scored by running between the two wickets - roughly equivalent to running the bases, except that you can only score complete runs, not (in effect) parts of one. However, each run is easier to come by, hence an innings total of 100-300 in a one-day game and 300-500 in a test innings being typical. 7. If the batsman hits the ball into the air and it's caught by a fielder before hitting the ground, he's out straight away - exactly the same as in baseball. 8. The function of the umpire is very similar (especially when it comes to making judgments as to whether a delivery was legal or not and if someone was run out or not), but in cricket there are no managers to argue with him and be sent off! In fact, controversies involving umpires are very, very unusual - the infamous career of Shakoor Rana being the obvious exception. There are some more esoteric rules and jargon, and tactical issues that differ between the 20/20 match (a relatively recent invention), the one-day game and the full-scale test match, but those are the essential differences. I went to my first baseball match in the US yesterday (Toronto Blue Jays vs. LA Angels), and picked up what was going on very quickly. If I hadn't been a cricket fan beforehand, it would have been a lot more difficult.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-06-2013 05:57 AM                     John It is a shame we retained the ashes in this way. We deserved to lose the way we were playing. Also I think that because of the weather forecast, England did not play to their full potential as they knew they would draw. See the way Cook played in the last Innings. We need to prove that we can win with the next game.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-06-2013 08:42 PM                     I love the way the British press are all saying you guys have won the Ashes. That may well happen, but for now you've only retained them...there are still 2 tests to go. I hope the weather plays nice and that we again step up to make a contest. We went close in the first test (all out with just 15 runs to get), we didn't turn up for the 2nd, but the third was ours for the taking. I've not seen such an incredible display of bowling as was witnessed the first session of day 5 I think ever before. Amazing stuff...and much fun. Pity about the rain.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-09-2013 03:44 AM                     Durham test starts today. Weather is looking ok until Monday pm then ok on the last day. Hopefully there should be some good Cricket  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-12-2013 04:53 PM                     Hi John Spoiler Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thats 3 then. I think next time around we will need to stert a new Topic. How about can Australia ever win the ashes again.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-12-2013 05:38 PM                     OK...now you've won them. Appalling display from our guys.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-27-2013 04:41 AM                     John Ashes Finnish 3-0 Thanks to the light. I wonder if Clark would have made so much of the light if we were not so close to winning the final test. Then I am sure England would been the ones complaining if it were the other way round. See you next time around, see if we can make it 0-5. Now the time for the 20 20 matches. This should be very interesting.  |  IP: Logged

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