[SOC] Cricket

[Jan Clute]

Paul - For those of us who still think of a cricket as a sort of prototype
for a real grasshopper... what is the significance of the name of the game
(don't bother me with the rules, I am satisfied that I will NEVER understand
those!). I've never heard anyone explain why it is called that. For that
matter, why do we call what you call football "soccer"? (Besides the obvious
confusion with the game of the same name as practice in the new world?). 73
Jan N0AAA #389

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bartlett" <paul at fulking.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <kevinrock at earthlink.net>; "Second Class Operators' Club"
<soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Cricket


> Nasser is Nasser Hussain. Ex-England captain and in his final year of test
> cricket before retirement.
>
> Today he scored a century (over one hundred runs).
>
> I suppose it's a bit like doing 25 'home runs' in baseball. I'm probably
> exposing the fact that I know little of baseball but I hope you get a
> flavour of what I mean - it's a significant sporting achievement.
Especially
> when upon the point of retirement.
>
> And it was at Lord's cricket ground. The home to the MCC and to cricket.
>
> It was an outstanding performance.
>
> P :-)
>
> p.s
>
> Win: we score more runs than our opponents in the time available. Yes!
>
> Lose: They bowl us out before we've scored as many runs as they did in the
> time available.
>
> Draw: They fail to bowl us out but we run out of time.
>
> Tie: The match ends with both of us on the same score. (Rare).
>
>
> CRICKET
> (as explained to a foreign visitor)
>
> You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
>
> Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out he
comes
> 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.
>
> Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
>
> When both sides have been in and out including the not outs, that's the
end
> of the game'.
>
> HOWZAT!
>
> -Acknowledgement to the Marylebone Cricket Club
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Rock" <kevinrock at earthlink.net>
> To: "Paul Bartlett" <paul at fulking.freeserve.co.uk>; "Second Class
Operators'
> Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Cricket
>
>
> > Howdy Folks,
> >     Could I please have a translation or at least an explanation of what
> > this means?  I understand the Bloody good cricket part.  I think that
> > means it was fair to middling but most everything after the - is well
> > beyond my comprehension.  It sounds like someone has passed their final
> > examination.  I thought they were playing cricket?
> >      Kevin.  Clueless in Buxton, Oregon - USA
> >
> > > Bloody good cricket - and Nasser got a century in his final Lord's
test.
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