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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Pei on September 11, 2004, 12:45:55 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/other_international/3646118.stm
210 run loss to NZ isn't too shabby really. Maybe one day they will progress to the ranks of the test playing nations?
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Cricket
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We've got a cricket team?
When did this happen?
Never seen it on ESPN.
Do we have an Aussie rules football team? That game rocks!!
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Originally posted by AKIron
Cricket
Hey if as many people played baseball as they do cricket you might actually have a world champiopnship where you play other countries!
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Originally posted by Blooz
Do we have an Aussie rules football team? That game rocks!!
Believe me, it doesn't. Especially if you are a Sydney Swans fan.
AFL is the most chaotic team sport ever invented. It's main claim to fame is as a way to make use of cricket grounds in the winter.
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Originally posted by Pei
Hey if as many people played baseball as they do cricket you might actually have a world champiopnship where you play other countries!
ROFL Pei! :lol - sig. material. :aok
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Originally posted by Pei
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/other_international/3646118.stm
210 run loss to NZ isn't too shabby really. Maybe one day they will progress to the ranks of the test playing nations?
Well I can understand how people can be excited about it if they were exposed to it.
Not my cup of tea though. I couldn't even understand the article as I don't know those terms used. Must be a culture thing.
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You've got to hand it to America though, getting involved with a game like Cricket. I hope they might field a Test team sometime - maybe in the next 5 years? Their next game is against Australia!!! I think they may well lose by more than 210 runs. If they bat first, they might even lose by something like 8 wickets. All part of the improvement process - like dying in AH! :aok
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Americans love statistics in their sports right? Cricket seems like a good match...
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Originally posted by Pei
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/other_international/3646118.stm
210 run loss to NZ isn't too shabby really. Maybe one day they will progress to the ranks of the test playing nations?
Hmm, they were playing a game? I thought they were chasing down fishbait.
curly
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Comon, Cricket is nearly as bad as Curling.
Aussie Football is the best sport Evar tho.
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I thought we had a side on when the batsman flopped the nipper to the outer field side. But then the Bowler googlied the sticks all over the test. :aok
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MT that's actually pretty good
;)
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lol MT nice one.
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USA finally discovers civilization
Great now all we need is Aussies to discover:
1. Bath Soap
2. Deoderent
3. Toilet paper
:D ;)
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lol Pei and MT, you knowledge of the game is well...staggering..:lol
Wtg USA, very respectible considering you were playing a quailty team.
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Originally posted by Curval
lol Pei and MT, you knowledge of the game is well...staggering..:lol
Wtg USA, very respectible considering you were playing a quailty team.
I want to see how the USA would stand up to the bowling of Ashley Giles. :D
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Originally posted by beet1e
I want to see how the USA would stand up to the bowling of Ashley Giles. :D
lol..
Fast seam bowlers are terrifying. I had the wind completely knocked out of me and badly bruised chest after taking a ball off the edge of my bat attempting to hook a bouncer more of a short pitched ball than an actual bouncer in retrospect. I thought I was going to die. I admit that I became a much more nervous batsman from that moment on.
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Originally posted by Curval
lol Pei and MT, you knowledge of the game is well...staggering..:lol
Wtg USA, very respectible considering you were playing a quailty team.
I know nothing about the game. Can you compair the score in basketball terms? as in we lost about 105 - 60 if it were basketball?
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Originally posted by Pei
Hey if as many people played baseball as they do cricket you might actually have a world champiopnship where you play other countries!
Wouldn't work, man. You seen what the Japanese version is like?
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Originally posted by Pei
Hey if as many people played baseball as they do cricket you might actually have a world champiopnship where you play other countries!
Toronto is in another country...
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Toronto is in another country...
Canada doesn't count!
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Originally posted by Pei
Canada doesn't count!
Way to start a flame war!
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I know nothing about the game. Can you compair the score in basketball terms? as in we lost about 105 - 60 if it were basketball?
In the one-day format, you pretty much can. Final score was NZ: 347, USA 137. Ouch.
OTOH theres "real" Cricket - Test Matches which take FIVE days to play, and in the end you might not even have a meaningful result! :D
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Cricket is just an excuse to get drunk on lazy summer afternoons.
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Originally posted by NUKE
I know nothing about the game. Can you compair the score in basketball terms? as in we lost about 105 - 60 if it were basketball?
It's not comparable Nuke, sorry.
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Pei, it wouldn't be worth it to hold a genuine 'world series' after the MLB WS. the professional mlb teams would embarrass any competition.
for all intents and purposes, the winner of the world series really is world champion. (unless you think a team like cuba could beat stl or bos)
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Originally posted by moose
Pei, it wouldn't be worth it to hold a genuine 'world series' after the MLB WS. the professional mlb teams would embarrass any competition.
for all intents and purposes, the winner of the world series really is world champion. (unless you think a team like cuba could beat stl or bos)
Really? You mean like in basketball too right? No-one can possibly defeat the mighty Americans in that game. The winner of that championship is also referred to as "World Champions".
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Well, we lost only one game in our our entire Olympic history until now.
And we probably would never lose again if we just fielded a real team ( like the NBA champs for instance) instead of throwing one together real quick.
I don't know about baseball though.
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Originally posted by justin_g
In the one-day format, you pretty much can. Final score was NZ: 347, USA 137. Ouch.
OTOH theres "real" Cricket - Test Matches which take FIVE days to play, and in the end you might not even have a meaningful result! :D
That certainly used to be the case, especially in England, when a match might be blighted by bad weather. In that case, the side that should have won might not have had enough time to win. But the new style of doing things seems to be to play a certain minimum number of overs each day, regardless of what time play finishes - assuming there's enough light, of course.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I thought we had a side on when the batsman flopped the nipper to the outer field side. But then the Bowler googlied the sticks all over the test. :aok
What the hell did you just say?:confused:
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I would imagine Sagittarius looks a stronger possibility since it would bring it into closer opposition to Jupiter, reflecting his liking for food and comfortable roly-poly shape.
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Originally posted by Pei
Hey if as many people played baseball as they do cricket you might actually have a world champiopnship where you play other countries!
We do....ever hear of Canada? Toronto and Montreal both have teams in Major League Baseball.
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Originally posted by sling322
We do....ever hear of Canada? Toronto and Montreal both have teams in Major League Baseball.
The US and Canada are THE WORLD now?
:lol :aok
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Pei's quote simply said "other countries." Canada is an "other country."
True or False?
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Originally posted by sling322
Pei's quote simply said "other countries." Canada is an "other country."
True or False?
True. Still doesn't justify calling it the World Series though is all I was saying.
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Originally posted by Furball
Cricket is just an excuse to get drunk on lazy summer afternoons.
I thought that was Baseball?
Funny enough, baseball to us is like rounders which is the game that the girls use to play at school while the boys played Cricket. Winter it was Rugby only for the boys, netball/basketball for the girls.
...-Gixer
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