[SOC] Cricket

[Paul Bartlett]

The record goes, I think, to Brian Lara of the West Indies with something
over 400.

England's Graham Gooch famously managed 333.

Keep in mind that a test match lasts for up to five *days*. Puts the scores
in to some perspective.

Sir Gary Sobers hit poor Malcolm Nash for six sixes in one over in 1968
(that's just six deliveries).

I watched Ian Botham win a county match by hitting 24 (I think) on the last
over.

P

p.s. One run amounts to 22 yards. You get four if the ball runs to the
boundary and six if it goes over the boundary without bouncing first.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Rock" <kevinrock at earthlink.net>
To: "Paul Bartlett" <paul at fulking.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Cricket


> 100 runs in one game?!?!  Wow, now that's something.
>
> 63 Home runs in a season was the record of Roger Maris but I think that
> was broken a few years ago.  3 home runs in a single game has been done.
>
> There are no ties in baseball.  I do believe we have eliminated all forms
> of ties in any of our sports.  Sudden death we call it!
>
> I am more of a curling fan than anything else.  Golf is interesting but
> tossing the caber has to be the world's greatest sport after motocross :)
> World class motocross is my favorite sport.
>
> Thanks for the glossary.  I'll keep it nearby when I am talking cricket ;)
>     Kevin.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:52:16 +0100, Paul Bartlett
> <paul at fulking.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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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