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how do i get an american to understand cricket


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I was having a great conversation with an american friend online. We talked over the usual differences, like health service and politics, the price of petrol here and that sort of thing.

 

Then we got onto sport...football he had a vague idea, when i started to call it soccer.

 

But the the crunch sport came, when he talked about baseball, great game i watched it every week through the season..

 

I then went on to try and tell him about cricket....11 a side, 6 balls an over, that part he understood no problem..

 

The parts that he could not understand was...the game starts at 11am. then break for lunch around 1pm, then break for tea around 4pm and then fishish the days play around 6pm.

 

And the game goes on for 5 days and usualy ends in a draw lol.

 

 

sean

woman want me, fish fear me

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There is an explanation, of sorts, knocking about somewhere, it says things like, the batsman that's in is out on the field, the batsman that's out is in the pavillion etc.... I'll have a look and see if I can find it for you ;)

 

The Rules of Cricket

 

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 thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

 

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Making the most of it

 

Chi dorme non piglia pesci

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There is an explanation, of sorts, knocking about somewhere, it says things like, the batsman that's in is out on the field, the batsman that's out is in the pavillion etc.... I'll have a look and see if I can find it for you ;)

 

The Rules of Cricket

 

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 thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

 

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

 

 

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Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Jan here (not Newt).

 

We've had many try to explain cricket and the concept just doesn't sink in. Closest I ever came to cricket was Peter Davison as the 5th doctor :P

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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There is an explanation, of sorts, knocking about somewhere, it says things like, the batsman that's in is out on the field, the batsman that's out is in the pavillion etc.... I'll have a look and see if I can find it for you ;)

 

The Rules of Cricket

 

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 thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

 

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

 

Makes sense to me Slack lines, it must be a Yorkshire thing. :)

Angling is more than just catching fish, if it wasn't it would just be called 'catching'......... John

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Jan you really need to get your own name an pic on,,, when replying and all i can see is newt, god bless him, i would rather see you when replying lol

 

newts the best guy.

 

sean

woman want me, fish fear me

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