- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
He is never one to baulk at the opportunity.
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Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
When it knocks, Speich, when it knocks!
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
I occasionally drank beer whilst playing (only on Sundays - non league matches, nothing to do with church)! 
My team mates thought it was water in my bottle!
My team mates thought it was water in my bottle!
Dave5N
Über Member
- Location
- Outside The Little Nibble
Never seen the point of a sport where you can look at the scoreboard and still have no idea who's winning.
Tedious, too.
Tedious, too.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I tentatively mention Ladies' Cricket, seeing as how the British erm or was it English Ladies' Team won the World Cup.
just realised how many jokes I may have to field about bowling maidens over, etc etc.
just realised how many jokes I may have to field about bowling maidens over, etc etc.
longers
Legendary Member
I'm not a big fan of cricket as such but I've watched a few village and pub teams and thoroughly enjoyed the afternoons.
I rode about a hundred and fifty miles over two days to watch a friend play for his local team a couple of years ago. When I say it was his local team, it used to be, he now lives and works in Reading and travels up to East Yorks every weekend during the season to turn out. Every year he says it's going to be his last season.
The match in question was over very quickly and there was an horrendous amount of beer supped.
I rode about a hundred and fifty miles over two days to watch a friend play for his local team a couple of years ago. When I say it was his local team, it used to be, he now lives and works in Reading and travels up to East Yorks every weekend during the season to turn out. Every year he says it's going to be his last season.
The match in question was over very quickly and there was an horrendous amount of beer supped.
Speicher said:What about snooker - is that a sport? All that sitting about, then pointing a long stick at balls and putting them in a pocket?
And it has to be Very Quiet so they can concentrate.
obviously not - they wear bow ties to play it for god's sake! What's wrong with it being simply a 'game'?
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Do you wear cycling shoes?
Noodley said:
the point is in tennis while it's in play the players are constantly in action. even the player who's waiting for it to come back to him has got to run back to be in the optimum position for returning the next shot.
In cricket, all they do is one of them wanders up to some stumps and lobs a ball overarm towards the bloke at the other stumps, then sometimes, but only if he feels like it mind, he hits it. Then when he's hit it, he ambles over to the other stumps and back, but again - only if he can be bothered, which he often can't.
The other blokes just get to have a rest and watch waiting for their turn to bat. Sometimes if it goes near one of them then they'll lob it back towards the stumps, but since they're spread all over the field, they don't have to run that far in order to get it 'cos if it's too far away there'll be another bloke nearer to it.
bonj said:
As I said before, cricket is a game for people with subtlety and patience. You fail on both counts Bonjy baby, clearly having the mind of a young goldfish and the subtlety of a baseball bat. Let the scales (geddit) fall from your eyes and see the light.
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
I bet Bonj would move fast enough if he had Curtly Ambrose bearing down on him at a reasonable fraction of lightspeed...
Chuffy said:I bet Bonj would move fast enough if he had Curtly Ambrose bearing down on him at a reasonable fraction of lightspeed...
doesn't matter what speed the ball's travelling at, what speed the bowler's skipping along at, or how aggressive a face he's pulling to try and put you off, all you've got to do is swing the bat to coincide with when the ball's going to reach you.
Rhythm Thief
Veteran
bonj said:
Brilliant. Bonj, you're a comedy genius.