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Fri, Oct 21 2016 9:37 AM (49 replies)
  • petervcpt
    1,013 Posts
    Fri, Sep 30 2016 11:47 AM

    South Africa have demolished Australia in the first 50 over ODI in South Africa.

    Quinton De Kock pulverised the Aussie bowling attack for 178 runs off 113 balls.

    I'm happy today :-)

  • alanti
    10,564 Posts
    Sun, Oct 2 2016 6:27 PM

    Damn Peter.........did you have to state that publicly....then SA beat the Wallabies (not a great feat)..........lets hope there is not a tiddlywink test on.....we will no doubt lose that too.

    De Kock's knock was one heck of a performance.....he has incredible power and is great to see any player in that sort of form.

    Edit - 2ns ODI just as impressive - Faf du Plessis and JP equally destroying. Aussie is missing Starc and is a second rate attack....but no excuses,,,,,they have been played off the park.

  • TracyMax
    2,361 Posts
    Sun, Oct 2 2016 7:13 PM

    petervcpt:

    South Africa have demolished Australia in the first 50 over ODI in South Africa.

    Quinton De Kock pulverised the Aussie bowling attack for 178 runs off 113 balls.

    I'm happy today :-)

    ODI??  Bowling--runs??  (translate to American please. TY)

  • petervcpt
    1,013 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 5:13 AM

    Howzit

    ODI = One Day International 9 a 50 over per side cricket match.

    Explaining cricket would take a while but it's closest analogy in the USA would be baseball I guess.

    Cheers,

    Peter

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 8:24 AM

    ODI = One Day International.

    Here's a simple run down off the game of cricket, for our American friends -

    • You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
    • Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s 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.
    • 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 there are men still in and not out.
    • There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out.
    • Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out.
    • When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.

               

                           

    The guy with the bat tries to hit the ball and then runs between the two sets of three sticks to score points.

    The bowler is trying to hit the sticks and if he knocks down either of the two wee sticks balanced on the three big ones, the batsman is out. 

    The batsman can also be put out if any fielder catches a ball thats been hit, before it hits the ground.

    There are many, many more rules but that's the basics. 

    Concussing seagulls is optional.

  • Ducati916
    1,116 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 9:02 AM

    I spent a week watching Cricket one day.

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 9:16 AM

    Ducati916:

    I spent a week watching Cricket one day.

    That's a better description than I came up with, totally agree with you.

  • Beryman
    9,084 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 11:26 AM

    PaulTon:

    ODI = One Day International.

    Here's a simple run down off the game of cricket, for our American friends -

    • You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
    • Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s 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.
    • 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 there are men still in and not out.
    • There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out.
    • Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out.
    • When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.

               

                           

    The guy with the bat tries to hit the ball and then runs between the two sets of three sticks to score points.

    The bowler is trying to hit the sticks and if he knocks down either of the two wee sticks balanced on the three big ones, the batsman is out. 

    The batsman can also be put out if any fielder catches a ball thats been hit, before it hits the ground.

    There are many, many more rules but that's the basics. 

    Concussing seagulls is optional.

    sheesh!!

    no wonder it has never caught on in the States

    we like things much simpler....that is why we shorten words such as "probably" becomes "prob" - "could have" becomes "coulda" - "you all" become "yall" ...lots mo but ya get da pic

  • blindpugh
    433 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 11:38 AM

    petervcpt:

    Howzit

    ODI = One Day International 9 a 50 over per side cricket match.

    Explaining cricket would take a while but it's closest analogy in the USA would be baseball I guess.

    Cheers,

    Peter

       Or absolute boring shite

     

  • craigswan
    30,837 Posts
    Mon, Oct 3 2016 12:16 PM

    Cricket is a sport that has been around for centuries. According to legend, it was first played during the early Pleistocene Era, in a match pitting the Leicester Clubbers against the always feisty Sussex Wooly Mammoths.

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