Cricket

[Mickwhitt 4,642]

Hi all.

Just about to set off to the Yorkshire County Cricket Ground at Headingley near Leeds .

We have tickets to watch two games of The Hundred. A new format of our great game Cricket. 

It's a bit like baseball but far more interesting 

Each team has 11 players, who face 100 balls from the opposing team, scoring as many runs as possible. The team with the highest score wins.

i hear that the most wonderful game is coming to your shores and that one day we shall be playing the yanks at cricket, probably being beaten by them too if the pesky aussies are anything to go by .

Anyway,  as its the wettest year since noah had to build his ark we are hoping it stays dry for a  few hours at least. 

Mick

[ri702bill 8,339]

Almost sounds like Dodge Ball !! 

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,326]

I have seen some cricket matches on the Telly, still don't understand the game. 

Edited August 3, 2023 by elcamino/wheelhorse
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[wh500special 2,187]

12 hours ago, Mickwhitt said:

…like baseball but far more interesting 

 

You’re possibly underselling cricket…there are precious few things on this planet that are less interesting than baseball.
 

I shall list them:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2023 by wh500special

[stevasaurus 22,764]

I'm with Steve...the most interesting baseball game ever was rained out!!!     Your football is a close 2nd.  Sorry.  The most exciting game in the world...is...wait for it...................................................chess !!  

 

[Mickwhitt 4,642]

It's pretty straight forward really

 

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 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 got 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

[Alan R. 316]

My take on cricket is ZZZzzzzzzzzzz.  Oh sorry, awake again.  When the players are not rubbing the balls on their B+++'s, they are looking out for a dark cloud to appear on the horizon which could mean a few drops of rain. This is the signal to run EXTRA fast to the pavilion for cups of tea and cucumber sandwiches.

Football is not much better but has the advantage of being finished much quicker.  The players do not appear to mind getting wet either.

As for baseball, I had the misfortune of being dragged to a game while in America a few years ago. Luckily I had a book with me. Much more interesting.

Sorry Mick and others. You will have gathered that I am not into sport. Whatever turns you on I suppose, or OFF.

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,326]

@Alan R. You must have been enjoying some good books in the recent past, haven't hear from you in a long time. How are you?

[Mickwhitt 4,642]

I thought I might get a bit more flak for my comment about baseball. But I've never seen a game so it was perhaps made from ignorance. 

The rain thing gets me Alan, I appreciate its about safety but sometimes just a few drops sends the players scampering into the pavilion. 

This was the end of our men's game Last night though, slightly moist in the outfield.

 

[rmaynard 15,514]

20 hours ago, wh500special said:

You’re possibly underselling cricket…there are precious few things on this planet that are less interesting than baseball.
 

I shall list them:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll name one TENNIS

 

My uncle used to say that "tennis is the small end of nothing ground down to a fine point".

[sergeant 291]

11 hours ago, Alan R. said:

My take on cricket is ZZZzzzzzzzzzz.  Oh sorry, awake again.  When the players are not rubbing the balls on their B+++'s, they are looking out for a dark cloud to appear on the horizon which could mean a few drops of rain. This is the signal to run EXTRA fast to the pavilion for cups of tea and cucumber sandwiches.

Football is not much better but has the advantage of being finished much quicker.  The players do not appear to mind getting wet either.

As for baseball, I had the misfortune of being dragged to a game while in America a few years ago. Luckily I had a book with me. Much more interesting.

Sorry Mick and others. You will have gathered that I am not into sport. Whatever turns you on I suppose, or OFF.

I don't think there is a sport I can't fall asleep watching. I like to play golf and rugby, but I can't watch either. Furthermore, I can leave golf on the TV in the background.  But cricket, I do agree, like baseball, will put me right to sleep. When I visit family in the UK, they know not to plan to bring me to sporting events. The only time I would stay awake was if one of my kids were playing a sport in school, or if any of my grand-kids joined some type of sport, which I'd go watch and try to stay awake for. One grandson is playing baseball. I am just glad I haven't been out to visit when he has had a game.

[Alan R. 316]

On 8/4/2023 at 12:51 AM, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

@Alan R. You must have been enjoying some good books in the recent past, haven't hear from you in a long time. How are you?

Trying to fight off creaking joints and other getting older complaints Jim.  Keeping occupied with smaller model making projects. The last large build was an old mobility scooter converted into a "Don't look too close"  Blackhood Wheelhorse. farm truck.

[Alan R. 316]

On 8/4/2023 at 7:39 AM, Mickwhitt said:

I thought I might get a bit more flak for my comment about baseball. But I've never seen a game so it was perhaps made from ignorance. 

The rain thing gets me Alan, I appreciate its about safety but sometimes just a few drops sends the players scampering into the pavilion. 

This was the end of our men's game Last night though, slightly moist in the outfield.

 

I used to wind my ex workmates up, they were sport lovers, with comments like if all football players had a ball each they wouldn't need to run around chasing the one and only on the field. Similar wind up comments for cricket.  Their reply's unprintable.

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,326]

@Alan R.I love the black hood. You do some amazing work.

[Handy Don 12,237]

On 8/4/2023 at 2:39 AM, Mickwhitt said:

 

Problem with using umbrellas in the seating area--you might keep the rain off with your umbrella but having the water go onto your seatmate--or vice versa!

[Mickwhitt 4,642]

Yes the guy next to me wet me through with his golf umbrella. Nothing we could do about it really.

The weather was really unseasonable, we do get showers in summer but this was ridiculous.  More like November than August.

[Alan R. 316]

On 8/5/2023 at 8:02 PM, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

@Alan R.I love the black hood. You do some amazing work.

Thanks Jim. 

[Handy Don 12,237]

3 hours ago, Mickwhitt said:

Yes the guy next to me wet me through with his golf umbrella. Nothing we could do about it really.

 

My spouse, DIL and I were at my son’s grad school graduation and it poured. Grads had cover but the audience were exposed. My “doorman” umbrella covered the three of us and, thankfully, the adjacent seats were empty so we didn’t soak anyone else.