English victory!

[miotas]

The English secure their first ashes victory at Lords in 75 years. Enjoy the celebration as much as you can, you'll have another 75 to plan the next one

[pevergreen]

Should have lost the first test.

[CountArach]

Should have lost the first test.

This.

[Veho Nex]

Can you fill an undeducated american in?

[naut]

Hahahahaha. Hahaha. Haha. Ha.

[miotas]

What! You've never heard of the ashes? It's only one of the most famous cricketing competions in the world. And don't go touting the we don't play cricket excuse, no one else plays baseball but we all know about the so called "world series".

[InsaneApache]

It's funny that the first Englishman to reply is I and I don't even follow cricket. Psychonaut dunt count as he, well let's say, bats for the other side these days.

And you call us lot whingers!

Can you fill an undeducated american in?

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

[miotas]

Nah, I don't begrudge the poms their win. We can't win all the time, and getting upset about it just wouldn't be cricket.

[Prodigal]

Bring back bodyline!

[pevergreen]

You can have the win, I don't count anyone apart from...3 players good that werent in Shane Warne Cricket '99. I still have that game.

[CountArach]

Can you fill an undeducated american in?

Cricket in a nutshell:
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 been 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!

[InsaneApache]

Bah! You're making it too easy for him.

[johnhughthom]

Cricket in a nutshell:
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 been 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!

That has given me a headache.

[KukriKhan]

Cricket in a nutshell:
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 been 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!

Oh. We have that:




You get fries with your's? And: are there cheerleaders involved?

[miotas]

Ha! Nice one. But you are forgetting backyard cricket which has a few of it's own rules.

If you go in and you get out straight away then you're still in, and if you hit the ball out then you're 6 and out, and if the person in doesn't get out for a long time then you can get one hand one bounce and they're out so someone else can go in, and when you get out you dont go back in, you go back out, and if you get out you can't go in bowl, and if you get them out then you're in.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Ah, cricket...the last vestige of Britishness, the ultimate hallmark of Empire.

I'll unravel the laws of quantumphysics before I'll understand the laws of cricket.

[Pannonian]

Ah, cricket...the last vestige of Britishness, the ultimate hallmark of Empire.

I'll unravel the laws of quantumphysics before I'll understand the laws of cricket.

The general overview is that there are 2 sides of 11 players. They take turns in batting and bowling, one side batting while the other bowls to them, and vice versa. An innings lasts until the batting side runs out of batsmen. In a Test match, the aim is to score more runs over 2 innings than the other side can score over 2 innings. A Test match lasts for a maximum of 5 days, or 2700 scheduled deliveries (90 x 6 x 5).

The Ashes is the longest running international contest in cricket, and one of the oldest active in the world. Test series had been played between England and Australia XIs before, but a memorable match played at The Oval in 1882 saw England lose by a narrow margin to Australia, when it seemed the match would be easily won by England. To commiserate the event, an English journalist satirically lamented "the death of English cricket, whose body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The English media dubbed the upcoming return series in Australia as "the quest to regain The Ashes". When the touring English side secured a series win in Victoria, a group of local ladies presented the English captain with a tiny urn as a symbolic trophy, containing the ashes of something or other. The actual urn is a family heirloom of the English captain for that tour, but a replica has been used as a presented trophy.

Sidenote: the English captain for the 1882-83 tour, Ivo Bligh, later married one of the Victorian ladies who had presented him with the Ashes urn. The urn was given to Marylebone Cricket Club, based at Lord's cricket ground, for safekeeping after Bligh's death, but the Bligh family retains ownership of the urn.

The Ashes

[Xipe Totec]

I love me cricket, especially the Ashes! But I can't help noticing:

England can never bowl anyone out unless it rains.

England can never win a test match unless they bat first.

Ponting is never out without whingeing.

Australia can never win a match once they have won the series, because they seem a little 'slow in the outfield'.

England's best match-winning all-rounders are always injured.

K.P. always has a bad innings even if he scores 75.

We never talk about Ashes 2007.

England is never referred to as England and Wales.

The Aussie team we beat in 2005 was way better than us. Shane Warne was brilliant all through the series. We only won because Ponting put us in to bat when we lost the toss, Shane Warne stood on his stumps instead of hitting the winning boundary, and it rained exactly when we needed it to, over and over again.

God I hope we can win this thing, cause we all need to win sometime and our Rugby team are a gay bunch of losers.

[pevergreen]

The tiny urn contain the literal ashes of a burnt bail from the ashes series, dont they? Thats the story around here anyway.

[miotas]

That's the story that someone made up, and even if they were to prove it were the ashes of something else in there, then stuff 'em, it's still a bail

[InsaneApache]

My moneys on Jack teh Ripper.

[AlexanderSextus]

Che and I have both been talking to eachother about Cricket and Baseball and he's been trying to get me to understand Cricket and i've been trying to get him to understand Baseball.

I've been watching some cricket clips and i think i kinda get it...

My fellow Americans, don't use the excuse that americans don't play cricket, the US is an Associate member of the International Cricket Councel. WE SUCK, but we are thankfully not the worst cricket team, however.

[Prodigal]

There is news that 20/20 stylee cricket is going to be started up in the good ol' US of A in the near future,so there's still hope that a civilisation will grow in the land of the free at last.

[miotas]

20/20's not real cricket, how can you have a proper match in just 3 or 4 hours? Even a bit of backyard cricket usually goes longer.

[AlexanderSextus]

how bout this... If us americans promise to get good at cricket will yall british and australians promise to get good at baseball?

the british are already halfway there, in the first Baseball World Cup, The UK won against USA.

[Beefy187]

how bout this... If us americans promise to get good at cricket will yall british and australians promise to get good at baseball?

the british are already halfway there, in the first Baseball World Cup, The UK won against USA.

Aussies beated us (Japan) in the Olympics.

[CountArach]

Aussies beated us (Japan) in the Olympics.

And we won the World Championship not too long ago.

[Beefy187]

And we won the World Championship not too long ago.

Bah. We still won world baseball classic which we plan to hold on to for a while.

But I admit, Aussies do have plenty of talented baseball players.

[InsaneApache]

We do play baseball in the UK, except we call it rounders. Oh and it's a game played by little girls.

[miotas]

Meh, we already know how to play it. There's no point trying to make it popular in Australia though since no one will care. We have cricket in summer and depending on your fancy either NRL or AFL in the winter. What else do we want?