[SOC] Cricket

[Dennis]

ever lose anybody that way ??
I mean really lose them ??

73 - 72 - "OO"
Dennis - ve3vg at sympatico.ca
"CW from the Great White North"
FP-512, WATPK 7,
----- 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 2:52 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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